Ap literature Flashcards
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| 3669707856 | Allusion | A reference | 0 | |
| 3669707857 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 1 | |
| 3669707858 | Couplet | A pair of two lines in poetry | 2 | |
| 3669707859 | Caesura | An interruption or break | 3 | |
| 3669707860 | Diction | Choice of words in writing | 4 | |
| 3669707861 | Enjambment | lines that end without punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause. | 5 | |
| 3669707862 | Foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 6 | |
| 3669707863 | Image | igurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader's experience through their senses. | 7 | |
| 3669707864 | Iam | a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single | 8 | |
| 3669707865 | Metaphor | A comparison not using like or as | 9 | |
| 3669707866 | Metonymy | A substitution for a name of something | 10 | |
| 3669707867 | Meter | A unit of rhythm in poetry | 11 | |
| 3669707868 | Monologue | A long speech by one actor | 12 | |
| 3669707869 | Pun | Play on words with a humorous effect | 13 | |
| 3669707870 | Personification | Using attributes of living things to describe non living things | 14 | |
| 3669707871 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 15 | |
| 3669707872 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 16 | |
| 3669707873 | Tone | General character or attitude of a piece of writing | 17 | |
| 3669707874 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 18 | |
| 3669707875 | Soliloquy | Actor speaking their thoughts out loud | 19 | |
| 3669707876 | Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines using any number of rhyme schemes, has 10 syllables | 20 | |
| 3669707877 | Sestet | Last six lines of a sonnet | 21 | |
| 3669707878 | Octave | Poem or stanza of eight lines | 22 | |
| 3669707879 | Quatrain | Stanza of 4 lines | 23 |