AP literature Flashcards

3565769278	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	0
3565769279	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	1
3565769280	Blank Verse	An un-rhyming verse written in iambic parameter	2
3565769281	Caesura	A pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics	3
3565769282	Canon	A collection of works by which others are measured in terms of literary skill and value	4
3565769283	Diction	Choice of words, especially with regards to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness	5
3565769284	Free Verse	Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme	6
3565769285	Hyperbole	Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	7
3565769286	Imagery	Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work	8
3565769287	Irony	A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character	9
3565769288	Open Verse	Uses techniques that blast open the possibilities of words on the printed page	10
3565769289	Diaspora	The dispersal of people from their homeland	11
3565769290	Anapest	Made up of three syllables: two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable	12
3565769291	Pastoral	A literary work dealing with shepherds or rural life	13
3565769292	Villanelle	Consists of 19 lines divided into 5 tercets and 1 quatrain	14
3565769293	Onomatopoeia	The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named	15
3565769294	Paradox	A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition	16
3565769295	Parody	An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect	17
3565769296	Rhythm	Demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables	18
3565769297	Meter	A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse	19
3565769298	Satire	A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society	20
3565769299	Symbol	Signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings	21
3565769300	Synesthesia	Presents ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense	22
3565769301	Tone	An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience	23
3565769302	Cacophony	The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds	24
3565769303	Denotation	Literal or dictionary meanings of a word	25
3565769304	Connotation	A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing it describes explicitly	26
3565769305	Anaphora	The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect	27
3565769306	Chiasmus	Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures	28
3565769307	Litote	A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives	29
3565769308	Terza rima	A poem with an eleven syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, dd	30
3565769309	Spondee	A beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables	31
3565769310	Scansion	Th dividing of verses into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables	32
3565769311	Assonance	Two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonants sounds	33
3565769312	Cosmic Irony	The idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations	34
3565769313	Internal Rhyme	A poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other	35
3565769314	Mixed Metaphor	A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculously effect	36
3565769315	Feminine Rhyme	A rhyme that matches two or more syllables	37
3565769316	Epithet	A descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making them more prominent	38
3565769317	Antithesis	A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effects	39
3565769318	Troche	A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one in English	40
3565769319	Syntax	The way words and phrases are arranged to make a complete sentence	41
3565769320	Metaphor	Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	42
3565769321	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly	43
3565769322	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, idea, or thing	44
3565769323	Analogy	A literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections	45
3565769324	Conceit	An extended metaphor with complex logic	46
3565769325	Concrete Language	Language that refers to tangible, qualities or characteristics	47
3565769326	Personification	The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman	48
3565769327	Euphony	Pleasing effect to the ear	49
3565769328	Metonymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	50
3565769329	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	51
3565769330	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	52
3565769331	Rhyme	A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems	53
3565769332	Polysyndeton	The use of several conjunction in close succession	54
3565769333	Zeugma	A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different sense	55