AP Literature Flashcards

4021144834	Alliteration	repetition of same letter or sound (big beach ball)	0
4021149200	Allusion	reference to someone/something	1
4021151728	Anapest	three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed (I must finish my journey alone)	2
4021160451	Apostrophe	addresses an imaginary character in his speech (Macbeth knife, O)	3
4021167329	Assonance	two more more words repeat the same vowel sound but have different constant	4
4021175672	Aubade	morning	5
4021177881	Blank Verse	un-rhyming verse in iambic pentameter	6
4021180595	Cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	7
4021201539	Caesura	a pause near the middle of a line	8
4021204253	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	9
4021205184	consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase (pitter patter)	10
4021208995	Dactyl	foot in poetic meter, accented, unaccented, unaccented (humanly)	11
4021214098	Denotation	in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.	12
4021215903	Elegy	couplets written in honor of the deceased	13
4021219673	Epic	long narrative (heroes)	14
4021224087	End Rhyme	comes at end of two successive lines	15
4021225228	End Stop Line	pause comes at the end of a sentence (punctuation)	16
4021227327	Enjambment	moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark	17
4021229922	Euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing (Fired vs Let go)	18
4021235384	Euphony	melody or loveliness in the sounds they create (Autumn)	19
4021239318	Figurative Language	figures of speech, senses (metaphor, simile, allusions)	20
4021241639	Foot	stressed and unstressed syllables	21
4021242789	Free Verse	free form (meter and rhyme X)	22
4021244049	Haiku	5-7-5	23
4021247650	Heroic Couplet	rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter	24
4021251441	Hexameter	a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls (foot)	25
4021254886	Hyperbole	exaggeration	26
4021255488	Iamb	metrical foot used in various types of poetry (short long syllable)	27
4021258741	Image	a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art	28
4021260395	Internal Rhyme	middle words and its end words rhymes with each other	29
4021261709	Irony	words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words	30
4021375596	Litotes	understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions	31
4021376914	Lyric	personally poem and or expression of feelings	32
4021377717	metaphor	comparison	33
4021378130	meter	stressed/unstressed syllable pattern	34
4021378780	Metonymy	replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated	35
4021379523	Narrative Poem	related events arranged into a logical sequence	36
4021380871	Octave	a poem or stanza of eight lines	37
4021382030	Ode	praises people or ideas	38
4021384010	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	39
4021385831	Oxymoron	two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect (cruel kindness)	40
4021388041	Paradox	statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth ( I am nobody)	41
4021389735	Parody	exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect	42
4021391044	Patrol	poem about Shepherds and field	43
4021393289	Pathetic Fallacy	attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature	44
4021393998	Pentameter	five strong metrical feet or beats	45
4021394784	Personification	giving inhuman things life like qualities	46
4021395358	Prose	normal speech	47
4021396161	Quatrain	verse with four lines, with a separate theme	48
4021411280	Scansion	put in stress marks	49
4021412996	Sestet	octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines	50
4021413600	Simile	comparisons using like and as q	51
4021414781	Sonnet (English (couplet) and Italian)	14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter	52
4021417999	Spondee	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables	53
4021419304	Stanza	a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse	54
4021421405	Symbol	represents larger ideal	55
4021421406	Synecdoche	made to represent the whole or vice versa (as in Cleveland won by six runs meaning "Cleveland's baseball team" )	56
4021422576	Tetrameter	a verse of four stresses	57
4021423130	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc	58
4021423860	Trochee	stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one	59
4021420610	Symbol		60