AP Literature Vocabulary 2 Flashcards

3710864714	idiom	the personal use of words that marks and author's poetry ex. using "Fifth-month" instead of "May"	0
3710866065	levels of diction	range from slang at one extreme to formal usage at the other, although in an age in which most poems use a level that stays in the middle of the scale, ranging	1
3710955287	archaism	Words that are no longer in common use and other words that may not be familiar to the reader.	2
3710955288	syncope	dropping a letter and interjecting a '	3
3710956948	denotation	the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.	4
3710956949	connotation	the implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired	5
3710958142	neologism	a word made up by the poet	6
3710958143	inversion	words that fall out of their expected order	7
3710959936	concrete diction	denote that which can be perceived by the senses	8
3710959937	abstract diction	Language that describes qualities that cannot be perceived with the five senses	9
3710968838	sensory imagery	auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory	10
3710968839	onomatopoeia	Individual words like "splash" or "thud" whose meanings are closely related to their sounds	11
3710970376	pun	the use of one word to imply the additional meaning of a similar-sounding word.	12