AP Literature List 6 Flashcards
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| 10693437321 | Argumentation Discourse | This type of discourse is based on valid logic and, through correct reasoning, tries to motivate the audience | 0 | |
| 10693437322 | Description Discourse | This type involves describing something in relation to the senses; Enables the audience to develop a mental picture of what is being discussed | 1 | |
| 10693439997 | Exposition Discourse | To make the audience aware about the topic of the discussion | 2 | |
| 10693450422 | Narration Discourse | A type of discourse that relies on stories, folklore or a drama as a medium of communication | 3 | |
| 10694638162 | Genre | A type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style | 4 | |
| 10694638163 | Parable | A figure of speech, which presents a short story, typically with a moral lesson at the end | 5 | |
| 10694666396 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series | 6 | |
| 10694666397 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds - primarily those of consonants - to achieve desired results | 7 | |
| 10694669632 | Conceit | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors | 8 | |
| 10694669633 | Couplet | A literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought | 9 | |
| 10694672811 | Dramatic Monologue | In this type of monologue, a character speaks to the silent listener. This type has theatrical qualities and is frequently used in poetry | 10 | |
| 10694672812 | Enjambment | Moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark | 11 | |
| 10694672813 | Foot | A measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables | 12 | |
| 10694676808 | Image | A word or phrase in a literary text that appeals directly to the reader's senses | 13 | |
| 10694676809 | Measure | Frequently used as a synonym for meter, This is more strictly either a metrical grouping, such as a foot or a verse, or a period of time | 14 | |
| 10694676810 | Ode | A form of poetry that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy and read to praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas | 15 | |
| 10694676811 | Quatrain | A verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme | 16 | |
| 10694681294 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 17 | |
| 10694681295 | External Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of different lines. | 18 | |
| 10694685021 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllabication are unstressed | 19 | |
| 10694685022 | Internal Rhyme | A rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines | 20 | |
| 10694685023 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on stressed syllables like in "bells" and "hells." | 21 | |
| 10694688658 | Stanza | A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme | 22 | |
| 10694688659 | Volta | The turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as "but", "yet", or "and yet" | 23 | |
| 10694688660 | Inverted Sentence | A normally subject-first language in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun) | 24 | |
| 10694693140 | Loose Sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses | 25 | |
| 10694693141 | Logos | A literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic | 26 | |
| 10694696929 | Foreshadowing | A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story | 27 | |
| 10694696930 | Motif | An image, sound, action, or other figure that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme | 28 | |
| 10694699894 | Literal/Figurative | A contrast between words that convey their ordinary meanings and their metaphorical meanings | 29 | |
| 10694699895 | Psalm | A sacred poem, or one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers in a Christian and Jewish book of worship | 30 | |
| 10694702780 | Villanelle | A poetic device that which requires a poem to have 19 lines and a fixed form. It has five tercets (first 15 lines), a quatrain (last four lines), and a couplet at the end of the quatrain | 31 |
