AP Literature Vocabulary (Poems) Flashcards
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| 3194460731 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions (EX: Death portrayed as Grim reaper) | 0 | |
| 3194483224 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds (EX: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickeled peppers) | 1 | |
| 3194493329 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 2 | |
| 3194522292 | Anapestic | Metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house) | 3 | |
| 3194548705 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences (EX: I have a dream Speech) | 4 | |
| 3194550756 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. (EX: Canterburry Tale's) | 5 | |
| 3194554376 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 6 | |
| 3194557285 | Antithesis | A juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, ideas. (EX: Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you will weep alone) | 7 | |
| 3194572571 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply (EX: Someone releasing anger yelling at the ocean; retard) | 8 | |
| 3194584725 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response, very identifiable | 9 | |
| 3194591478 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 10 | |
| 3194596450 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions (EX: I came, I saw, I conquered.) | 11 | |
| 3194600298 | Attitude | Sense expressed by the tone of the voice or mood of a piece of writing | 12 | |
| 3194613232 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. Meant to be sung | 13 | |
| 3194622530 | Ballad Stanza | Four-line stanzas (quatrains) with alternating four-beat and three-beat lines, and rhymes in the second and fourth lines. | 14 | |
| 3194627085 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 15 | |
| 3194630484 | Caesura | A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns. | 16 | |
| 3194632351 | Caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. (Example: The pupils of her eyes are small; like a pebble of sand floating atop a can of blue paint. or Political cartoons) | 17 | |
| 3194637889 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."), A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary." or Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure) | 18 | |
| 3194646184 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 19 | |
| 3194650299 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. (EX; Love affair as flower growing, not similar) | 20 | |
| 3194657351 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests, implied meaning (EX: I loveeee your outfit, bullshit) | 21 | |
| 3194665926 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. (Pitter-patter, pish posh) | 22 | |
| 3194673881 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 23 | |
| 3194678384 | Dactylic | stressed unstressed unstressed | 24 | |
| 3194687577 | Denotation | Direct and specific meaning, often referred to as the dictionary definition | 25 | |
| 3194689782 | Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 26 | |
| 3194691621 | Dialect | A regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts if the world. Dialect is a from or regionalism in writing and is often refereed to as "colloquial language" | 27 | |
| 3194694785 | Diction | Word choice to persuade or convey tone | 28 | |
| 3194696157 | Dramatic monolouge | poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high intensity of deep emotion; no dialogue, the poet speaks through an assumed voice (Soliloquy, To be or not to be) | 29 | |
| 3194702572 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 30 | |
| 3194705148 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 31 | |
| 3194708874 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society (EX: Odyssey) | 32 | |
| 3194710524 | Exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.Sets the scene | 33 | |
| 3194713115 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 34 |