AP Literature Flashcards

2864564050	Enjambment	The writer does not end the line with a period or comma.	0
2864566892	Masculine Rhyme	One syllable rhyme	1
2864570899	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds (usual @ the end of words in a line of poetry	2
2864574628	Lyre	Harp like instrument	3
2864577026	Spectial	Ghostly	4
2864579871	Steady Meter	Must have meter	5
2864581559	U	Unstressed syllable	6
2864584081	-	Stressed syllable	7
2864585034	Trochee	Stressed, unstressed (Trochaic)	8
2864586987	Mono-meter	Occurs 1x	9
2864588851	Di-meter	Occurs 2x	10
2864589904	Trimeter	Occurs 3x	11
2864591968	Tetrameter	Occurs 4x	12
2864594410	Pentameter	Occurs 5x	13
2864595818	Iamb	Unstressed , Stressed (Iamic)	14
2864599658	Intone	To call	15
2864616556	Irony	Think of opposite	16
2864618760	Verbal	Highlight the opposite of what you say	17
2864623799	Dramatic	Occurs when a character says something when we know to be the opposite	18
2864628078	Situational	An irony under situations. Something positive comes out of the situation	19
2864630985	Cosmic	Nothing positive comes out of it. The universe deciding to crap on you.	20
2864636927	Theme	What a writer believes it means to be human. Look for specificity.	21
2864649878	Alliteration	Use of consonants repetitively	22
2864652956	Whang	Noisy	23
2864654869	Tone	Writers attitude towards the subject Diction Imagery Details	24
2864655898	Nostalgia	Good feeling about your past	25
2864659106	Irreverent	Disrespectful to something sacred	26
2864660511	Sardonic	Grimly mocking or cynical	27
2864664171	Omnipotent	All powerful	28
2864666533	Dubious	Doubtful	29
2864667526	Palpable	To be touched	30
2864670289	Anachronism	Something in the wrong time period	31
2864673249	Allusion	Reference to outside source	32
2864677119	Sensory Imagery	Visual (sight) Auditory (hear) Olfactory (smell) Gustatory (taste) Tactile(touch) Kin-esthetic(body movement)	33
2864693471	Apostrophe	Speaking to an in animate object	34
2864695550	Ephemeral	Passes quickly and its gone	35
2864763212	Internal Rhyme	When the words in the same line of poetry rhyme	36
2864923655	Feminine Rhyme	Multi syllable word that rhymes	37
2864925844	Assonance	Same vowel sounds	38
2864927508	"Carpe Diem"	Seize the day and grab what you can, w hen you can, especially when young. Can be considered a genre of literature	39
2864936097	Ode	A poem on an important subject	40
2864938200	Ballad	A strong poem	41
2864939533	Sonnet	14 lines max	42
2864942194	Italian	Petrarch-an	43
2864943973	English	Shakespeare	44
2864946994	Admonition	A severe warning	45
2864948018	Lyric	A poem expressing one's personal feelings	46
2864949890	Maudlin	Overly weeping; depressingly sad	47
2864952481	Vehement	Passionate; strongly opinionated	48
2864956527	Anaphora	The repetition of the first words of a line	49
2864961626	Asyndeton	No use of conjunctions	50
2864964238	Melliflous	Soft	51
2864965440	Inexorable	Unavoidable	52
2864968133	Ambivalent	Conflicting emotions about subject	53
2864971083	Dirge	Song of lament	54
2864972062	Pastoral	Poem that has to do with country side	55
2864977316	Elegy	Poem of death	56
2864980972	Petrarch-an Sonnet	14 lines rhyme abba abba broken up in 8 & 6 cde cde	57
2864989638	Ode	Poem on a significant matter	58
2864991510	Shakespearean Sonnet	14 lines rhyme abab cdcd broken up in 3 quatrants + efef gg	59
2864996526	Eminence	Greatness	60
2864997393	8 lines	Octave	61
2864998832	6 lines	Sestet	62
2865000341	Bemusement	Puzzled; confused or bewildered	63
2865006213	Didact	Teaching lessons of moral nature	64
2865009317	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth. Ex. " If it ain't broke, don't fix it."	65
2865015460	Homily	Religious sermon/lecture Ex. " A guest preacher delivered today's homily."	66
2865020404	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt. Ex. "To pass away" instead of "to die"	67
2865030484	Circumspect	Wrong & unwilling to take risks	68
2865031833	Enigmatic	Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious	69
2865035565	Listless	lacking the energy or enthusiasm	70
2865037736	Indifferent	Unconcerned; mediocre	71