AP Terms Test Flashcards

249099659	Iamb (Iambic)	A metrical foot of poetry in which there is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable---2 syllables total	0
249099660	Trochee (Trochaic)	A metrical foot of poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable --2 syllables	1
249099661	Spondee (Spondaic)	a metrical foot of poetry with stressed-stressed syllables--2 syllables	2
249099662	Anapest (Anapestic)	unstressed-unstressed-stressed--3 syllables	3
249099663	Dactyl (Dactylic)	stressed, unstressed, unstressed--3 syllables	4
249099664	Pyrrhic	unstressed, unstressed--2 syllables	5
249099665	Monometer	one foot	6
249099666	Dimeter	two feet	7
249099667	trimeter	three feet	8
249099668	Tetrameter	four feet	9
249099669	Pentameter	five feet	10
249099670	Hexameter	six feet	11
249099671	Heptameter	seven fet	12
249099672	Octameter	Eight feet	13
249099673	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize	14
249099674	attitude	a speaker's author's or chacter's disposition toward or opinion of a subject	15
249099675	details	items or parts that make up a larger picture or story	16
249099676	devices of sound	the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry.	17
249099677	diction	word choice	18
249099678	figurative language	writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, simile, and iony.	19
249099679	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	20
249099680	irony	the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens	21
249099681	metaphor	a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity	22
249099682	narrative techniques	the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts	23
249099683	omniscient point of view	the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses.	24
249099684	point of view	any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told.	25
249099686	rhetorical techniques	The devices used in effective or persuasive language...the most common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question	26
249099687	satire	writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule...the more common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question.	27
249099688	setting	the background or physical location of a play, story, or novel	28
249099689	simile	a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')	29
249099690	style	the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author.	30
249099691	symbol	something that stands for something else	31
249099692	syntax	the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences	32
249099693	theme	the main thought expressed by a work	33
249099694	tone	the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude	34
249099695	allegory	a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning	35
249099696	ambiguity	multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible	36
249099697	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	37
249099698	connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	38
249099699	convention	a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression	39
249099700	denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	40
249099701	didactic	instructive, designed to teach	41
249099702	digression	the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	42
249099703	epigram	a witty saying	43
249099704	euphemism	substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive	44
249099706	hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	45
249099707	jargon	a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)	46
249099708	literal	not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete	47
249099709	lyrical	songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination	48
249099710	oxymoron	a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms	49
249099711	parable	a short moral story (often with animal characters)	50
249099712	paradox	a statement that seems to be self-contracting, but is in fact true	51
249099713	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	52
249099714	rhetorical question	a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered	53
249099715	soliloquy	a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections	54
249099716	stereotype	a generalized belief about a group of people	55
249099717	alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	56
249099718	assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	57
249099719	ballad meter	a 4 line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. O mother, mother make my bed. O make it soft and narrow. Since my love died for me today, I'll die for him tmorrow	58
249099720	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.	59
249099721	end-stopped	a line with a pause at the end	60
249099722	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	61
249099723	heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit	62
249099724	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	63
249099725	onomatopoeia	using words that imitate the sound they denote	64
249099726	sonnet	a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections	65
249099727	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	66