AP literature Flashcards

4388262992	Alliteration	the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	0
4388267847	Allusion	the brief reference of a known event or person, place, or thing.	1
4388276627	Ambiguity	word, phrase, or sentence that can have marathon one meaning; words or statements that causes confusion or vagueness.	2
4388303256	Antithesis	two different ideas are put in one sentence to enforce a contrasting effect	3
4388306457	Assonance	adjacent words that repeat the same vowel but start with different	4
4388319131	Cacophony	mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds	5
4388325676	Caesura	natural rhythm due to passes	6
4388363320	Connotation	meaning implied other than the literal meaning; carries emotion or even culture	7
4388371477	Consonance	repetitive sounds by consonants	8
4388377770	Couplet	A pair of lines that rhyme and have the same meter	9
4388382865	Denotation	literal meaning of something, as opposed to the feeling a word gives.	10
4388386706	Diction	style of speaking or writing depending by the choice of words the author chooses	11
4388395310	Dramatic Situation	situation in a dramatic work in which people are involved in conflicts that solicit the audience's empathetic involvement in their predicament.	12
4388400752	Elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament of the dead	13
4388403794	End Rhyme	when a poem has lines ending with words that sounds the same	14
4388410838	Enjambment	the continuation of sentence without a pause beyond the end of the a line, couplet or stanza.	15
4388422116	Euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear	16
4388423718	Exact rhyme	a rhyme between two words or phrases satisfying the following conditions: the stresses vowel in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds.	17
4388430586	Extended metaphor	when an author exploits a single metaphor at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors or grounds throughout a work.	18
4388438828	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	19
4388445370	Foot	a combo of stressed and unstressed syllables (basic unit of a poem's meter)	20
4388448153	Free Verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter	21
4388454572	Iamb, iambic	a metrical line that describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line, measured in small syllables called "feet"	22
4388460880	Imagery	using figuratively language to represent objects to appeal our senses	23
4388463534	Implied metaphor	Comparison between two ideas or objects but that have similar characteristics to one another.	24
4388471454	Internal Rhyme	in poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines	25
4388480289	Irony	Intended meaning of a word is different from the actual meaning.	26
4388483536	Litotes	the intentional use of double negative to further affirm a positive	27
4388559409	Masculine rhyme	a rhyme that matches only one syllable usually at the end of respective lines. often the final syllable is stressed	28
4388562891	Metaphor	an indirect comparison between two unlike things (not like or as)	29
4388567754	Meter	in poetry, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse	30
4388570772	Ode	a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotions	31
4388575532	Onomatopeia	Word that sounds like the sound it makes	32
4388576808	Paradox	a seeming ugly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true	33
4388582640	Pentameter	a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	34
4388584244	Personification	a figure of speech in who a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.	35
4388587903	Phonetic internsives	A word whose sound, by obscure process, to some degree suggests its m meaning . As differentiated from onomatopoetic words, the meaning of phonetic intensives do not refer to sounds (ex: flicker)	36
4388598490	Rhetorical Question	A question used to invoke thought, an answer is not expected	37
4388600461	Simile	a direct comparison between two things using " like " or "as"	38
4388603758	Slant rhyme	words that almost rhyme (ex: farm,-yard" or appear to the eye to do so (ex: aid-paid)	39
4388608789	Sonnet	a poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes in english typically having ten syllables per line	40
4388611461	speaker	a person who speaks (in poems, one addresses the speaker, not the author)	41
4388614576	Stanza	a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse	42
4388619908	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentence in a language	43
4388620884	Theme	the central idea or main subject being discussed	44
4388628003	Tone	is a literary compound of composition which shows the attitudes towards the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work, highlighted through diction	45
4388635829	Volta	a turn or shift in thought/emotion/tone	46