AP Lit Vocab Semester 2 Flashcards

293477990	stanza	A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.	0
293477991	couplet	Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.	1
293477992	heroic couplet	A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer	2
293477993	meter	The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.	3
293477994	rhyme	Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.	4
293477995	blank verse	Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter.	5
293477996	free verse	Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	6
293477997	near/half/slant rhyme	Rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly.	7
293477998	eye/sight rhyme	A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, e.g., love and move.	8
293477999	rhyme scheme	The ordered pattern of rhymes.	9
301847782	tercet	A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.	10
301847783	quatrain	A stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes.	11
301847784	cinquain	The general term for a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern	12
301847785	sestet	The last six lines of a sonnet.	13
301847786	septet	A poem or stanza consisting of seven lines, having any form or meter	14
301847787	octave	a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter	15
301847788	enjambment	the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause.	16
301847789	end-stop rhyme	In poetry, a line ending in a full pause, often indicated by appropriate punctuation such as a period or semicolon.	17
301847790	scansion	The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	18
301847791	onomatopoeia	The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	19
304089438	lyric poetry	a form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings	20
304089439	sonnet	A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	21
304089440	Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.	22
304089441	Spenserian Sonnet	a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee	23
304089442	Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet	sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd.	24
304089443	ode	lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.	25
304089444	ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	26
304089445	folk ballad	- a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture	27
304089446	Literary Ballad	ballads based on folk ballads	28
307767448	villanelle	A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain	29
307767449	sestina	A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi	30
307767450	Dramatic Monologue	A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events	31
319198264	concrete poetry	Poetry that draws much of its power from the way the text appears situated on the page.	32
319198265	closed poetic form	Poetry written in a a specific or traditional pattern according to the required rhyme, meter, line length, line groupings, and number of lines within a genre of poetry.	33
319198266	open poetic form	A poem of variable length, one which can consist of as many lines as the poet wishes to write.	34
319198267	rhyme royal	seven line stanzas which are writen in iambic pentameter in a fixed rhyme scheme (ABABBCC)	35
319198268	rondeau	A short poem consisting of ten, thirteen, or fifteen lines using only two rhymes which concludes each section with an abbreviated line that serves as a refrain	36
319198269	pathetic fallacy	A type of often accidental or awkward personification in which a writer ascribes the human feelings of his or her characters to inanimate objects or non-human phenomena surrounding them in the natural world	37
319198270	archaism	A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes.	38
319198271	neologism	A made-up word that is not a part of normal, everyday vocabulary.	39
319198272	poetic license	The freedom of a poet or other literary writer to depart from the norms of common discourse, literal reality, or historical truth in order to create a special effect in or for the reader.	40
319198273	beat movement	American social and literary movement of the 1950's	41
331742148	elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	42
331742149	metaphysical poetry	highly intellectual poetry written in England during the 17th century	43
331742150	synaestesia	a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated	44
331742151	pun	A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings	45
331742152	juxtaposition	the act of positioning close together	46
331742153	turn/volta	the turn in thought in a sonnet	47
331742154	terza rima	the arrangement of triplets in iams	48
331742155	conceit	Excessive pride in oneself	49
331742156	catachresis	The use of a word in a way that is not correct	50
331742157	pastoral	A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life	51
331742158	refrain	A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song	52
356311903	alliterative verse	verse that uses alliteration as the structuring device	53
356311904	cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	54
356311905	anapest	a metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one	55
356311906	trochee	a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one	56
356311907	iamb	a metrical foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one	57
356311908	dactyl	a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables	58
356311909	spondee	a metrical foot with two stressed syllables	59
356311910	pyrrhic	a metrical foot with two unstressed syllables	60
356311911	masculine rhyme	a rhyme of final stressed syllables	61
356311912	feminine rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables	62
356311913	bathos	An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous	63
361618225	tenor	the real world subject in a metaphor	64
361618227	vehicle	what the tenor refers to in a metaphor	65
361618229	monometer	one foot	66
361618231	dimeter	two feet	67
361618233	trimeter	three feet	68
361618235	tetrameter	four feet	69
361618237	pentameter	five feet	70
361618239	hexameter	six feet	71
361618241	heptameter	seven feet	72
361618243	octameter	eight feet	73
367206019	dystopia	An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.	74
367206020	utopia	An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.	75
367206021	in medias res	Technical term for the epic convention of beginning "in the middle of things," rather than at the very start of the story.	76
367206022	epistolary	Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters	77
367206023	existentialism	A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will	78
367206024	transcendentalism	the philosophy that divinity pervades all nature and humanity	79
367206025	invective	Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language	80
367206026	Bildungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	81
367206027	periodic sentence	a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause	82
367206028	loose (cumulative) sentence	a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows	83