AP Literature Flashcards

2843469457	Diction	The authors word choice or style of writing	0
2843470620	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	1
2843472660	Colloquial	Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing	2
2843474737	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	3
2843475359	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	4
2843477138	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	5
2843478029	Extended Metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	6
2843478781	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	7
2843479613	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	8
2843482070	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	9
2843482880	Irony	A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.	10
2843485275	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	11
2843486238	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	12
2843488443	Simple Sentence	A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause	13
2843489496	Complex Sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	14
2843490325	Cumulative Sentence	An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail.	15
2843490930	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.	16
2843492366	Inverted Sentence	any sentence in which the normal word order is reversed, with the verb coming before the subject or the complete subject and predicate coming after another clause	17
2843494810	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	18
2843495572	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	19
2843498302	Free Verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	20
2843499505	End Rhyme	Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry	21
2843500141	Internal Rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	22
2843503085	Slight Rhyme/ Slant Rhyme	words that look like they should rhyme but don't	23
2843505056	Quatrain	A four line stanza	24
2843505946	Couplets	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	25
2843507404	Rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	26
2843508849	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	27
2843509839	Feet	Number of syllables it contains and how stress is placed	28
2843511593	Iambic Meter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.	29
2843515092	Iambic Pentameter	A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.	30
2843516319	Iambic Tetrameter	contains eight syllables and four iambic feet	31
2843517021	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	32
2843517675	Petrarchan Sonnet	a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	33
2843527185	English Sonnet	a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg	34
2843528120	Elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	35
2843528121	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	36
2843528940	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	37
2843530030	Villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	38
2843531845	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	39
2843532036	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	40
2843533128	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	41
2843534988	Onomatopeoia	the use of words that imitate the sounds they define (ex: hiss)	42