AP Literature Poem Vocabulary Flashcards

3372554665	Doggerel	A term used for lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed	0
3372554666	Paraphrase	Prose restatement of the the central ideas of a poem in your own language	1
3372554667	Metaphor	Makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as	2
3372554668	Jargon	Language relates to a particular group often defined by trade or profession	3
3372554669	Persona	A speaker created by the poet	4
3372554670	Speaker	Voice used by the author in the poem	5
3372554671	Verse	Term used for lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern which are often rhymed	6
3372554672	Anagrams	Words made from letters of other words	7
3372554673	Theme	Central idea or meaning	8
3372554674	Lyric	A brief poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker	9
3372554675	Narrative Poem	Poem that tells a story	10
3372554676	Epic	A long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important deeds	11
3372554677	Clichés	Ideas and expressions that have become tried and true from overuse	12
3372554678	Stock Responses	Predictable, conventional reactions to language, characteristics, symbols, or situations	13
3372554679	Sentimentality	Con reader into feeling someway about something bad	14
3372554680	Diction	Choice of words	15
3372554681	Poetic Diction	Use of elevated language over ordinary language	16
3372554682	Formal Diction	Dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language	17
3372554683	Middle Diction	Spoken by most educated people	18
3372554684	Informal Diction	Relaxed conversational used everyday	19
3372554685	Colloquially	Used in ordinary conversation language	20
3372554686	Dialects	Spoke language by definable groups of people from particular geographical regions, economic groups, or social classes	21
3372554687	Denotations	Literal, dictionary meaning of a word	22
3372554688	Connotations	Associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning	23
3372554689	Ambiguity	Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language	24
3372554690	Syntax	Ordering or words into a meaningful verbal patterns	25
3372554691	Tone	Writer's attitude toward the subject; the mood generated by all elements of a poem	26
3372554692	Dramatic Monologue	Type of poem in which a character addresses a silent audience to reveal temperament or personality	27
3372554693	Carpe Diem	"seize the day"	28
3372554694	Allusion	Brief reference to a poem, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature	29
3372554695	Image	Language that addresses the senses	30
3372554696	Figures of Speech	Way of saying one thing in terms of something else	31
3372554697	Simile	Explicit comparison between two things by using like or as	32
3372554698	Implied Metaphor	Does not explicitly say or identify the subject or something else	33
3372554699	Extended Metaphor	A sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors	34
3372554700	Controlling Metaphor	Runs through an entire work and determines form or nature of that work	35
3372554701	Pun	A play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or surrounding like another word	36
3372554702	Synecdoche	Part of something is used to signify the whole or whole is used to signify a part	37
3372554703	Metonymy	Something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it	38
3372554704	Personification	Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things	39
3372554705	Apostrophe	An address either to something nonhuman or someone who is absent	40
3372554706	Hyperbole	Exaggeration of the truth	41
3372554707	Paradox	A statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but turns out to make sense	42
3372554708	Understatement	A statement that says less than intended	43
3372554709	Oxymoron	Condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words used together	44
3372554710	Symbol	Something that represents something else	45
3372554711	Conventional Symbol	Something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas	46
3372554712	Contextual Symbol	Can't be summarized in a word or two and tends to be elusive to the experience itself	47
3372554713	Allegory	A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because an ever represents specific ideas	48
3372554714	Didantic Poetry	Designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious message	49
3372554801	Irony	Reveals discrepancy between what appears to be and what actually is true	50
3372554802	Situational Irony	What happens is entirely different from what is expected	51
3372554803	Verbal Irony	Saying something different from what is meant	52
3372554804	Satire	Literary act of ridiculing a folly or vice in effort to expose or correct it	53
3372554805	Dramatic Irony	Writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does	54
3372554806	Cosmic Irony	Use of God, destiny, or fate to clash the hopes and experiences of a character	55