AP Literature Poetry Unit Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 13154067672 | Couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 0 | |
| 13154071185 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza | 1 | |
| 13154076128 | Pentameter | A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 2 | |
| 13154060683 | Tetrameter | Four feet per line | 3 | |
| 13154105465 | Euphony | Soft, gentle sounds, easy to articulate | 4 | |
| 13154108181 | Cacaphony | Harsh discordance of sound | 5 | |
| 13154115890 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 6 | |
| 13154117748 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 7 | |
| 13154140411 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 8 | |
| 13154141750 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 9 | |
| 13154157085 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 10 | |
| 13154178108 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 11 | |
| 13154180830 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 12 | |
| 13154192584 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 13 | |
| 13154194597 | Dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the speaker or other characters in a poem | 14 | |
| 13154203119 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 15 | |
| 13154217537 | Iambic | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 16 | |
| 13154218740 | Trochaic | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 17 | |
| 13154220538 | Dactylic | Stressed syllable, unstressed syllable, unstressed syllable | 18 | |
| 13154227789 | Anapest | Unstressed syllable, unstressed syllable, stressed syllable | 19 | |
| 13154233353 | Tone | A writer's attitude towards the subject matter, the reader, or herself or himself | 20 | |
| 13154250043 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 21 | |
| 13154250044 | Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 22 | |
| 13154260668 | Continuous form | The form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 23 | |
| 13154264073 | Stanzaic form | The form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme | 24 | |
| 13154267397 | Fixed form | A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas. | 25 | |
| 13154272389 | Structure | The movement of ideas in a poem | 26 | |
| 13154274055 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line poem | 27 | |
| 13154275129 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean) | A fourteen-line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet | 28 | |
| 13154278587 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan) | A fourteen-line poem broken into an octave and a sestet | 29 | |
| 13690009673 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 30 |
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Biochemistry Flashcards
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| 10949109769 | hydrophilic | Attracted to water |  | 0 |
| 10949116371 | hydrophobic | avoids water |  | 1 |
| 10949123463 | acid | has a low pH and a high concentration of H+ | 2 | |
| 10949135843 | base | has a high pH and a high concentration of OH- | 3 | |
| 10949150355 | macromolecule | large biological molecule |  | 4 |
| 10949162243 | polymer | large compound formed from combinations of many monomers |  | 5 |
| 10949175130 | monomer | The subunit that serves as the building block of a polymer. |  | 6 |
| 10949187278 | carbohydrate | compound made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms; major source of energy for the human body | 7 | |
| 10949190978 | monosaccharide | the simplest carbohydrate; a single sugar such as glucose |  | 8 |
| 10949204105 | disaccharide | 2 monosaccharides joined together; a double sugar |  | 9 |
| 10949214996 | polysaccharide | a complex carbohydrate such as starch or glycogen |  | 10 |
| 10949232083 | lipid | a hydrophobic macromolecule that contains C, H, and O; consists of triglycerides, waxes and phospholipids |  | 11 |
| 10949250954 | triglyceride | a type of lipid that is made of 3 fatty acids joined to a glycerol molecule |  | 12 |
| 10949264552 | saturated | describes a lipid that is solid at room temperature |  | 13 |
| 10949275892 | unsaturated | describes a lipid that is liquid at room temperature |  | 14 |
| 10949282887 | protein | the most diverse type of macromolecule; contains C, H, O and N and forms complex 3D shapes |  | 15 |
| 10949298171 | amino acid | Building blocks of protein; 20 different types, each with a different "R" group | | 16 |
| 10949315040 | nucleic acid | macromolecule containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus; carry hereditary information |  | 17 |
| 10949322488 | DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid; found within the nucleus of all living things |  | 18 |
| 10949330856 | RNA | ribonucleic acid; single stranded and is used to transfer the information from DNA outside of the nucleus | 19 | |
| 10949362117 | surface tension | the property of water that allowed you to balance a paperclip on the surface |  | 20 |
| 10949384252 | cohesion | molecules stick together |  | 21 |
| 10949388978 | adhesion | An attraction between molecules of different substances |  | 22 |
| 11048548783 | active transport | Energy-requiring process that moves material across a cell membrane against a concentration difference |  | 23 |
| 11048548784 | passive transport | the movement of substances across a cell membrane without the use of energy by the cell |  | 24 |
| 11048555519 | simple diffusion | movement of a solute from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration |  | 25 |
| 11048558920 | facilitated diffusion | Movement of specific molecules across cell membranes through protein channels; does not require energy |  | 26 |
| 11048595810 | endocytosis | process by which a cell takes material into the cell by infolding of the cell membrane |  | 27 |
| 11048595811 | exocytosis | release of substances out a cell by the fusion of a vesicle with the membrane. |  | 28 |
| 11048600469 | vesicle | A membrane bound sac that contains materials involved in transport of the cell. |  | 29 |
| 11048607485 | semipermeable | allows only certain substances to pass through |  | 30 |
| 11048618943 | hypertonic | Having a higher concentration of solute than another solution. |  | 31 |
| 11048629260 | hypotonic | Having a lower concentration of solute than another solution |  | 32 |
| 11048632509 | isotonic | when the concentration of two solutions is the same |  | 33 |
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