ap literature Flashcards

4923387888	conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor.	0
4923390258	confessional poetry	a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.	1
4923425354	conflict	the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.	2
4923427654	external conflict	conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society.	3
4923429388	internal conflict	a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind.	4
4923431260	connotation	the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.	5
4923444452	couplet	two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.	6
4923445982	dialect	a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.	7
4923447365	diction	a speaker or writer's choice of words.	8
4923449885	didactic	form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.	9
4923451838	elegy	a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.	10
4923454802	epanalepsis	device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common."	11
4923457516	epic	a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society.	12
4923460412	epigraph	a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.	13
4923462343	epistrophe	Device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora).	14