AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

3383150268	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	0
3383150269	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	1
3383150270	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.	2
3383150271	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	3
3383150272	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.	4
3383150273	Figurative	departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical.	5
3383150274	Literal	taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.	6
3383150275	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	7
3383150276	Diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.	8
3383150277	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	9
3383150278	Irony	the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.	10
3383150279	Verbal irony	irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.	11
3383150280	Situational irony	Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.	12
3383150281	Dramatic irony	a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.	13
3383150282	Satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	14
3383150283	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	15
3383150284	Mood	the atmosphere or pervading tone of something, especially a work of art.	16
3383150285	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.	17
3383150286	Aphorism	a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."	18
3383150287	Apostrophe	an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).	19
3383150288	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.	20
3383150289	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	21
3383150290	Assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).	22
3383150291	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.	23
3383150292	Simile	a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).	24
3383150293	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	25
3383150294	Rhyme	Way of creating sound patterns when two or more words sound alike	26
3383150295	Meter	the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.	27
3383150296	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	28
3383150297	Heroic couplet	Rhymed iambic pentamenter	29
3383150298	Tercet	A three-line stanza	30
3383150299	Triplet	When all three lines of a tercet rhyme	31
3383150300	Tersa Rima	An interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, and so on.	32
3383150301	Quatrain	A four-lined stanza and most common among english language poetry.	33
3383150302	Octave	a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet.	34
3383150303	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet.	35
3383150304	Iambic	Unstressed, stressed. Away	36
3383150305	Trochaic	Stressed, unstressed. Lovely	37
3383150306	Anapestic	Unstressed, unstressed, stressed. Understood	38
3383150307	Dactylic	Stressed, unstressed, unstressed. Desperate	39
3383150308	Spondaic	Stressed, stressed. Dead set	40
3383150309	Masculine rhyme	The rhyming of single syllable words	41
3383150310	Feminine rhyme	Rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables. Butter clutter	42
3383150311	Caesura	A pause within a line and is indicated by a II	43
3383150312	Enjambment	When one line runs over to the next line without an ending.	44
3383150313	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	45
3383150314	Ballad	Stanza - a quatrain made of "abcb" rhyme with alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines	46
3383150315	Sonnet	Consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. Italian has 2 parts: first 8 = octave, second 6 = sestet. Octave presents a problem, situation, or attitude. Abbaabba. Sestet comments on or solves the above. Cdecde, cdcded, cdccdc. English (Shakespearean) sonnet = organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet. Abab, cdcd, efef, gg	47
3383150316	Villanelle	Fixed form poem consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas. 5 tercets + a concluding quatrian. 1st tercet: 1st and 3rd lines rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa). Line 1 appears in its entirety as lines 6, 12, and 18. Line 3 appears as lines 9, 15, and 19.	48
3383150317	Sestina	Fixed form poem consisting of 39 lines of any length divided into 6 6-line stanzas and a three line concluding stanza called an envoy. The difficulty lies in repeating the 6 words at the end of the first stanza's lines at the end of the lines in the other 5 6-line stanzas as well. All 6 words must also appear in the final 3 lines of the poem.	49
3383150318	Epigram	a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.	50
3383150319	Limerick	a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.	51
3383150320	Parody	an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.	52
3383150321	Euphony	Lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth	53
3383150322	Cacophony	Lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce	54
3383150323	Classical	1200 BC-455 AD	55
3383150324	Medieval	455-1485	56
3383150325	Renaissance	1485-1660	57
3383150326	Enlightenment	1660-1790	58
3383150327	Romantic	1790-1830	59
3383150328	Victorian	1832-1901	60
3383150329	Modern	1914-1945	61
3383150330	Postmodern	1945-present	62