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4287676551	Lyric	expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings	0
4287676552	Sonnet	14 line lyric poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)	1
4287676553	Ode	a lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure	2
4287676554	Blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	3
4287676555	Free verse	no fixed meter or rhyme	4
4287676556	Epic	a long narrative poem celebrating the adventures and acheivements of a hero	5
4287676557	Dramatic monologue	character "speaks" through the poem; a character study	6
4287676558	Elegy	poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme	7
4287676559	Ballad	a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music	8
4287676560	Villanelle	consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes	9
4287676561	Meter	regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time	10
4287676562	Cacophony	harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words	11
4287676563	Conceit	an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor	12
4287676564	Assonance	repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds	13
4287676565	Irony	incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational	14
4287676566	Paradox	statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements	15
4287676567	Repetition	the simple repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line	16
4287676568	Iambic pentameter	70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables	17
4287676569	Scansion	analysis of a poem's meter: the dividing of verse (lines of poetry) into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of a poem	18
4287676570	Foot	two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem	19
4287676571	Stanza	a group of lines forming a unit in a poem	20
4287676572	Caesura	a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation	21
4287676573	Enjambment	describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line	22
4287676574	Rhyme/rime	repetition of end sounds	23
4287676575	End rhyme	occurs at the end of lines	24
4287676576	Internal rhyme	repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line)	25
4287676577	Couplet	two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work	26
4287676578	Tercet	three-line stanza	27
4287676579	Metaphor	implied or direct comparison	28
4287676580	Rhyme scheme	a pattern of rhymes formed by the end rhyme(aa,bb,cc)	29
4287676581	Consonance	repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds	30
4287676582	Symbolism	when a concrete object or image represents an abstract idea	31
4287676583	Oxymoron	compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other	32
4287676584	Iamb	a metrical foot of two syllables, one short(unstressed) and one long(stressed)	33
4287676585	Quatrain	four-line stanza	34
4287676586	Cinquain	five-line stanza	35
4287676587	Sestet	six-line stanza	36
4287676588	Personification	giving a non-human the characteristics of a human	37
4287676589	Apostrophe	someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply	38
4287676590	Metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)	39
4287676591	Synecdoche	symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board)	40
4287676592	Hyperbole	exaggeration, overstatement	41
4287676593	Litotes	understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite	42
4287676594	onomatopoeia	use of words which mimic their meaning in sound	43
4287676595	Euphony	pleasant, easy to articulate words	44
4287676596	Simile	comparison using 'like' or 'as'	45
4287676597	Slant rhyme/half rhyme	words with similar but not identical sounds	46
4287676598	Alliteration	repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words	47
4287676599	Imagery	representation through language of a sensory experience	48
4287676600	Allusion	makes reference to another piece of literature, a person, or event in history, sports, television, etc.	49
4287676601	Tone	writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly	50
4287676602	Point of View	perspective from which a story is told	51
4287676603	Setting	the time and place of the action of the work	52
4287676604	Figurative Language	Language enriched by word meanings and figures of speech (i.e., similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole)	53
4287676605	Jargon	terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group	54
4287676606	Motif	detail within the story that repeats itself throughout the work	55
4287676607	Sestina	consists of six 6-line stanzas, concluding with a 3-line "envoi" which incorporates all the line-ending words;rather than simply rhyming, the actual line-ending words are repeated in successive stanzas in a designated rotating order	56
4287676608	Style	the elements that make a writer unique; i.e. vocabulary, diction, syntax, etc	57
4287676609	Interior monologue	thinking in words, also known as inner voice, internal speech, or stream of consciousness	58
4287676610	Antagonist	someone who offers opposition	59
4287676611	Maxim	A succinct formulation of a fundamental principle; saying	60
4287676612	Rhetoric	the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language.	61
4287676613	Rhetorical mode	patterns of organization aimed at achieving a particular effect in the reader; Narration and Description, Process, Cause/Effect, Comparison/Contrast, Illustration, Argumentative and Persuasive, Definition, and Classification/Division	62
4287676614	Pathos	a style that has the power to evoke feelings	63
4287676615	Romanticism	a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect	64
4287676616	Gothic Novel	genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance	65
4287676617	Limerick	a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba	66
4287676618	Theme	the main idea or message found in the work	67
4287676619	Syntax	sentence structure	68
4287676620	Grotesque	a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form	69
4287676621	Connotation	what a word suggests beyond its surface definition	70
4287676622	Euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	71
4287676623	Allegory	characters are symbols, has a moral	72
4287676624	Foil	a character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, and so highlights various facets of the main character's personality	73
4287676625	Parable	a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson	74
4287676626	Protagonist	main character	75
4287676627	Homily	an inspirational saying or platitude, usually refers to religious readings	76
4287676628	Prose	written or spoken language that does not use any particular rhythm	77
4287676629	Atmosphere	The mood the reader gets from the setting, the characterization and the tone of the narrator.	78
4287676630	Pastoral	rural subjects	79
4287676631	Versimilitude	realistic writing	80
4287676632	Extended metaphor	uses an entire poem to develop a single metaphor	81
4287676633	Heroic couplet	traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme in pairs (aa, bb, cc)	82
4287676634	Parallelism	presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner	83
4287676635	Satire	literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack	84
4287676636	Ambiguity	unclear meaning	85
4287676637	Diction	word choice	86
4287676638	Parody	(lampoon) a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject	87
4287676639	Denotation	basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word	88
4287676640	Inversion/anastrophe	Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she	89
4287676641	Rhyme royal	seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc	90
4287676642	Novella	fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel	91
4287676643	Renaissance	ideals of kingship	92
4287676644	Colloqialism	an expression not used in formal speech, or writing: y'all, gonna	93
4287676645	Mood	the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem	94
4287676646	Syllogism	EX: All girls play soccer. I am a girl. Therefore, I play soccer.	95
4287676647	Local color	fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features including characters, dialects, customs and topography - of a particular region	96
4287676648	Stream of conciousness	the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur	97
4287676649	Foreshadowing	hinting at things to come	98

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AP Language Flashcards

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5115688316	Edifice	a building, especially a large, imposing one.	0
5115688317	decorous	in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.	1
5115689646	Languid	displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed.	2
5115689647	Prolix	using or containing too many words;	3
5115689648	ardous	involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.	4
5115693958	detriment	the state of being harmed or damaged.	5
5115693959	emolument	a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.	6
5115695345	cumbrous	large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use;	7
5115695349	impunity	exemption from punishment or freedom	8
5115697122	liberality	the quality of giving or spending freely.	9
5115697123	torpid	mentally or physically inactive;	10
5115697124	discourtesy	rude and inconsiderate behavior.	11
5115700915	truculent	eager or quick to argue or fight	12
5115700916	eulogium	a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly,	13
5115703041	vitiate	spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.	14
5115703042	polemical	of, relating to, or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech.	15
5115705797	lucubration	study	16

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7398284597	incongruous	incompatible, unsuitable for the situation	0
7398284598	consternation	alarming dismay, alarming concern	1
7398284599	coterie	a small group of people who show interest and meet frequently	2
7398285804	innocuous	harmless, doesn't effect others	3
7408357339	flippancy	disrespectful comment	4
7408357340	disconcert	to confuse or to frustrate	5
7408360918	preamble	an introduction, preliminary statement	6
7408362152	vitriolic	bitterly critical, harsh in tone	7
7432213985	eidetic	pertaining to	8
7432213987	plethora	a large number, over abundance	9
7432225180	accoutrement	accessory item	10
7432228981	hubris	excessive pride	11
7481433316	prognosticate	to predict, foretell	12
7481435554	contrive	devise, plan cleverly	13
7481443504	sectarian	narrowly confined to a particular group	14
7481447921	scullion	a servant confined to menial tasks	15
7507733897	antediluvian	extremely old	16
7507736799	imbroglio	difficult and embarrassing situation	17
7507740232	quotidian	everyday, commonplace	18
7507743135	platitude	obvious remark, cliche	19
7521913132	peregrination	to travel by walking	20
7521913133	venerate	to respect	21
7521913134	sanctimonious	showing false piety, self-righteous	22
7521917809	stringent	restrictive, having demanding standards	23
7535794122	haughty	condescendingly proud	24
7535794123	convoluted	complicated, intricate	25
7535794124	nexus	bond, link, tie	26
7535797159	gibberish	nonsense, unintelligible speech	27
7548816591	staid	solemn, serious, composed	28
7548816592	incumbent	obligatory or necessary	29
7548816593	cogent	reasonable, convincing	30
7548818512	compromise	made up of	31

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AP Literature Lesson 4 Flashcards

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4941818410	Inception	(n) the beginning of something	0
4941820170	Incipient	(adj) early stages	1
4941822207	Annihilate	(v) to destroy completely	2
4941822427	Nihilism	(n) total rejection of of religious/moral beliefs	3
4941824294	Negate	(v) to disprove; to nullify	4
4941826036	Renegade	(n) one who deserts a group, cause, faith, etc.; an outlaw	5
4941827659	Vacuous	(adj) empty, especially of meaning or purpose	6
4941828967	Vanity	(n) conceit, especially about one's appearance	7
4941830640	Vaunt	(v) to boast; to brag about	8
4941830641	Aperture	(n) an opening, especially one that admits light	9
4941832301	Overt	(n) done or shown openly	10
4941835712	Chimerical	(adj) widely fanciful; highly unrealistic	11
4941839617	Longanimity	(n) endurance of hardship; forebearance	12

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3369558455	Alliteration	Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	0
3369558456	Allusion	A reference to a well known person, place or thing	1
3369558457	Anapest	Unstressed,unstressed, stressed syllable	2
3369558458	Apostrophe	Address to an absent or imaginary person	3
3369558459	Ambiguity	Having more than one meaning	4
3369558460	Cacophony	Loud harsh sounds	5
3369558461	Caesura	A break or pause in the middle of a line	6
3369558462	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds	7
3369558463	Couplet	A stanza consisting of two successive lines so verse usually rhymed	8
3369558464	Dactyl	A metrical hint with stressed -unstressed-unstressed syllables	9
3369558465	Diction	Word choice,Phrasing	10
3369558466	Dissonance	Racket noise, describes sounds that are not pleasant	11
3369558467	Enjambment	When a phrase , clause or sentence in Aline of poetry doesn't finish at the line break spills over into the next line	12
3369558468	Euphony	Agreeable, pleasing harmonious sounds	13
3369558469	Free verse	Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern	14
3369558470	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	15
3369558471	Iamb	A part if a line that's made up of a short syllable followed by a long syllable	16
3369558472	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	17
3369558473	Internal rhyme	A rhyme between words in the same time	18
3369558474	Litotes	Understatement for rhetorical effect	19
3369558475	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that does not literally denote in order to suggest its similarity	20
3369558476	Octave	A musical interval of eight notes	21
3369558477	Onomatopeia	Using words to imitate sounds they denote a	22
3369558478	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	23
3369558479	Personification	The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas	24
3369558480	Sestet	A rhythmic group of six lines	25
3369558481	Simile	A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of difference usually formed with "like or as"	26
3369558482	Spondee	A metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables	27
3369558483	Trochee	A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables	28

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7039297647	Ambiguity	the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.	0
7039298024	Analogy	A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.	1
7115475118	Antecedent	A literary device in which a word or pronoun in a line or sentence refers to an earlier word.	2
7115480610	Aphorism	A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner.	3
7115485797	Atmosphere	The feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects.	4
7115488425	Antithesis	To put two contrasting ideas together to add interest to the writing.	5
7115495489	Anecdote	A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point or to make audience laugh.	6
7115499293	Argumentation	The action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory.	7
7115506335	Attitude	A perspective or tone that is built by the writer in a certain work.	8
7115509745	Audience	The person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes.	9
7115514157	Causal Analysis	The root cause; To find the causes that you can treat rather than treating the symptoms.	10
7115519395	Clause	A group of words that contain a subject and a predicate	11
7115524679	Cliché	An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty	12
7115533042	Colloquial	The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.	13
7115537254	Connotation	A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.	14
7115542533	Claim	A statement that asserts something to be true.	15
7115543391	Classification	A method of paragraph or essay development in which a writer arranges people, objects, or ideas with shared characteristics into classes or groups.	16
7115545155	Coherence	Something logical or consistent and something that makes sense as a whole	17
7115546562	Abstract	Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.	18
7115555882	Concrete	Existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract.	19
7117669625	Denotation	The literal or dictionary meanings of a word.	20
7117670631	Diction	Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.	21
7117676304	Didactic	Type of work that often has morals to impart or are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics	22
7117679405	Details	Pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea	23
7117681804	Dialect	The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people.	24
7117686044	Digression from topic	Temporary departure from topic	25
7117686561	Discourse	Speech or writing normally longer than sentences which deals with a certain subject.	26
7117691420	Dominant Impression	The principal effect the author wishes to create for the audience.	27
7117702190	Editorializing	Injecting personal interpretations or opinions into an otherwise factual account.	28
7117709952	Emotive Imagery	Images that secure an emotional response from the reader.	29
7153026884	Evidence	Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.	30
7153035200	Equivocation	When a key term or phrase in an argument is used with more than one meaning.	31
7153039790	Ethos	An appeal to ethics, and it means of convincing someone of character or credibility of the persuader.	32
7153043372	Ellipsis	A literary device that is used to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill in the gaps themselves.	33
7153047189	Epigraph	A phrase, quotation, or poem that is at the beginning of a document or component. Works to serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon.	34
7153051367	Generic conventions	Term that describes traditions for each genre; help to define each genre.	35
7153053502	Genre	A major category of literature which may be determined by technique, tone, content or even length.	36
7153055951	Homily	A sermon or speech that a religious person or priest delivers before a group of people to offer them moral correction.	37
7153056589	Hyperbole	A figure of speech which involves exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.	38
7153059265	Imagery	Yhe use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the five senses	39
7153064415	Inference	Logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true.	40
7153067404	Invective	Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution.	41
7153070832	Irony	Words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.	42
7153072513	Jargon	Use of specific phrases and words by writers in a particular situation, profession or trade; in order to convey hidden meanings accepted and understood in that field.	43
7153075333	Juxtaposition	Technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.	44
7153077464	Language devices	A technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing.	45
7153080110	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite.	46
7153084339	Loose Sentence	Begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause.	47
7153087519	Logos	A statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic.	48
7153089282	Metonymy	A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.	49

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9202220594	Ambiguity	A statement which can contain two or more meanings.	0
9202220595	Colloquialisms	A term associated with a specific regional culture, informal speech	1
9202220596	Connotation	A word's emotional content	2
9202220597	Denotation	A word's dictionary definition	3
9202220598	Convention	a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude	4
9202220599	Dialect	the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people	5
9202220600	Dialogue	A conversation between characters	6
9202220601	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	7
9202220602	Epigraph	A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme.	8
9202220603	Flashback	A reference to an event which took place prior to the beginning of a story or play.	9
9202220604	Inference	A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement.	10
9202220605	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.	11
9202220606	Dramatic Irony	The audience knows something the characters do not	12
9202220607	Situational Irony	The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected	13
9202220608	Verbal Irony	Contrast between what is said and what is meant, sarcasm	14
9202220609	Jargon	the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession	15
9202220610	Local Color	A detailed setting, enables the reader to see the setting	16
9202220611	Narrative Pace	the speed at which an author tells a story; the movement from one point or section to another.	17
9202220612	Mood	The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, by descriptions of objects or the style fo descriptions	18
9202220613	Pseudonym	A pen name, name assumed by a writer	19
9202220614	Sarcasm		20

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