AP Literature List 2 Flashcards

4969231020	Assonance	the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another	0
4969235021	Blank Verse	poetry that is not rhymed but that has a regular rhythm	1
4969239204	Carpe Diem	term that refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most of life and should enjoy it before it ends ("seize the day")	2
4969249683	Conceit	a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising or clever way. Often, they are extended metaphors.	3
4969265356	Internal Conflict	psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plots suspense	4
4969274982	External Conflict	struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot.	5
4969285092	Connotation	refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.	6
4969292283	Couplet	two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought.	7
4969311812	Caesura	a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics.	8