AP Literature Flashcards

5899557559	allegory	a piece of literature with double meaning	0
5899564273	allusion	literature that makes references	1
5899568453	ambiguity	uncertainty, vague	2
5899578878	anaphora	the same words again and again	3
5899586649	apostrophe	addressing something not physically there	4
5899597287	approximate rhyme	slant rhyme	5
5899603355	aubade	about sunrise	6
5899615192	cacophany	bad sounding	7
5899593679	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pantameter	8
5899617168	caesura	a pause in a line in old English	9
5899619850	consonance	repetition of sounds in the middle of words	10
5899625054	connotation	second meaning of the word	11
5899627348	denotation	exact meaning of the word	12
5899634045	didactic poetry	intending to teach	13
5899636183	dramatic monologue	a long serious speech to an intended audience	14
5899638549	elegy	a longing for the past	15
5899641870	eulogy	a speech made to honor someone's life	16
5899645603	emblematic poem	concrete poem	17
5899650903	enjambment	when a word does not go to the end of a line and it bumps down	18
5899656063	epigram	a short, witty statement	19
5899667062	feminine rhyme	polysyllabic	20
5899669745	masculine rhyme	monosyllabic	21
5899685586	figure of speech	a literary device that is non-literal	22
5899690236	foot	upbeat, downbeat; iamb	23
5899721591	scansion	reading a poem specifically for its poetic beat	24
5899724044	for	type of poem	25
5899725734	historic rhyme	does not rhyme anymore	26
5899731599	idyll	pastoral poem	27
5899740269	implied metaphor	noun not stated explicitly	28
5899747905	internal rhyme	rhymes across the line	29
5899750265	irony	situational, dramatic, verbal	30
5899812058	lyric	a poem intended to be sung	31
5899816209	mixed metaphor	combining to metaphors by mixing them up	32
5899818157	occasional poems	written for a single occasion	33
5899822768	ode	serious poem of lofty language	34
5899827822	onomatopoeia	a sound in a poem	35
5899827823	pastoral	has to do with sheep	36
5899830017	pentameter	a kind of line with five beats	37
5899836278	prose poem	a piece of prose with many poetic devices	38
5899839083	sarcasm	intends to wound	39
5899841816	satire	a type of literature commenting on society with no intent to fix	40
5899846641	sestina	six lines to the stanza...	41
5899858076	sonnet sequence	a series of sonnets connected to each other	42
5899865058	villanelle	French form	43
5899867600	zeugma	one word receives two objects	44
5909319454	Deus ex Machina	God in Machine	45
5909331698	hamartia	an ignorant mistake or a purposeful wrongdoing	46
5909345498	invective	when you are screaming at somebody	47
5909348580	litotes	"he's not a bad singer"	48
5909358232	colloquial	slang	49
5909360457	malapropism	uses the wrong word with the intention of sounding intelligent	50
5909381331	invocation	you invoke the gods	51