8705913393 | Metaphysical Conceit | A type of simile or metaphorwhich establishes a striking parallel between startlingly dissimilar things. | 0 | |
8705913394 | limited narration | the narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one character (main character) | 1 | |
8705913395 | Caesura | A strong pause within a metrical foot | 2 | |
8705913396 | Apostrophe | address or someone speaking to an absent or imaginary person | 3 | |
8705913397 | carpe diem | seize the day | 4 | |
8705913398 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 5 | |
8705913399 | Enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next | 6 | |
8705913400 | Elizabethan sonnet | A fourteen-line poem with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg & three quatrains | 7 | |
8705913401 | free indirect discourse | characters' thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through the third-person narrator | 8 | |
8705913402 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme or rhyme | 9 | |
8705913403 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 10 | |
8705913404 | Iamb | unstressed, stressed | 11 | |
8705913405 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable 10 beats per line | 12 | |
8705913406 | Gothic novel | A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action | 13 | |
8705913407 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed | 14 | |
8705913408 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant(sarcasm) | 15 | |
8705913409 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 16 | |
8705913410 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 17 | |
8705913411 | Symbol | Something that represents something else | 18 | |
8705913412 | Scansion | The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain | 19 | |
8705913413 | rhyming couplet | a pair of lines that rhyme | 20 |
AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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