AP Literature Flashcards

6749856765	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6749856766	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6749856767	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6749856768	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6749856770	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	4
6749856771	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	5
6749856772	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	6
6749856773	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	7
6749856774	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	8
6749856776	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	9
6749856777	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	10
6749856786	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	11
6749856787	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	12
6749856788	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	13
6749856789	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	14
6749856790	denouement	final outcome of the story	15
6749856792	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	16
6749856793	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	17
6749856794	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	18
6749856795	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	19
6749856796	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	20
6749856797	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	21
6749856798	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	22
6749856800	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	23
6749856801	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	24
6749856803	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	25
6749856805	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	26
6749856806	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	27
6749856807	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	28
6749856808	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	29
6749856809	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	30
6749856811	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	31
6749856812	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	32
6749856815	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	33
6749856816	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	34
6749856817	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	35
6749856818	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	36
6749856819	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	37
6749856821	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	38
6749856822	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	39
6749856825	octave	8 line stanza	40
6749856828	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	41
6749856837	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	42
6749856839	quatrain	A four line stanza	43
6749856845	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	44
6749856846	sestet	6 line stanza	45
6749856849	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	46
6749856850	sonnet	14 line poem	47
6749856853	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	48
6749856855	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	49
6749856856	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	50
6749856857	tercet	3 line stanza	51
6749856858	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	52
6749856862	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	53
6749856864	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	54
6749856865	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	55