AP Literature Poetic Devices Flashcards

6612397038	Denotation	Dictionary meanings	0
6612397925	Connotations	Overtones of the word	1
6612399718	Imagery	Representation of language of sense experience	2
6612410087	Figure of speech	Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way	3
6612411976	Figurative Language	Language using figures of speech	4
6612411977	Simile	Comparison using like or as	5
6612413274	Metaphor	Direct comparison	6
6612418342	Personification	Giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept	7
6612419560	Apostrophe	Addressing someone absent or dead or someone nonhuman as if that person or thing were present or alive and cold reply to what is being said	8
6612422756	Synecdoche	The use of the part for the whole	9
6612425838	Metonymy	The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant	10
6612429091	Symbol	Something that means more than what it is	11
6612430918	Allegory	A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface	12
6612435964	Paradox	An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true	13
6612436962	Overstatement / Hyperbole	Simply exaggeration in the service of truth	14
6612444785	Understatement	Saying less than one means	15
6612448700	Irony	Meanings that extend beyond its use merely as a figure of speech	16
6612449542	Verbal irony	Saying the opposite of what one means	17
6612450264	Sarcasm	Bitter or cutting speech intended to wound feelings	18
6612451507	Satire	Ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or at least keeping other people from falling into similar folly or vice	19
6612461548	Dramatic Irony	Discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means	20
6612466322	Situational Irony	Discrepancy between actual circumstances and what one anticipates	21
6612474483	Allusion	A reference to something in history	22
6612484707	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the reader, or himself or herself.	23
6612538073	Repetition	Repeating, duh	24
6612720405	Rhythm	Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	25
6612721628	Accented / Stressed	One or more syllables are given more prominence in pronunciation than the test	26
6612723144	Rhetorical Stresses	Typically used in speech, these are used to make our intentions clear	27
6612724730	End-Stopped Line	End of a line corresponds with natural pause	28
6612726101	Run-On Line	Line runs on with no pause	29
6612727072	Caesuras	Pauses within the middle of a line	30
6612727999	Free Verse	Basic poetic rhythmic unit	31
6612738281	Prose Poem	Poem using many rhetorical devices	32
6612741078	Meter	Verse where accents of language are arranged as to occur at apparently equal intervals of time	33
6612743908	Foot	Typically one accented syllable and one to two unaccented syllables	34
6612745122	Metrical Variations	Variations in a metrical pattern; a disruption	35
6612747277	Substitution	Replacing the regular foot with another	36
6612749826	Extrametrical Syllables	Adding syllables to the beginning or endings of lines	37
6612753000	Truncation	The omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line	38
6612757278	Blank Verse	Iambic pentameter, unrhymed	39
6612759539	Syllabic Verse	Counting of the number of syllables per line	40
6612766165	Phonetic Intensives	The words sound somehow connects to the meaning	41
6612773553	Euphony	Using pleasant sounding words	42
6612775960	Cacophony	Using harsh sounding words	43
6612808492	Structure / Form	External pattern to provide shape	44
6612810608	Continuous Form	Slight element of design; free structure	45
6612811751	Stanzaic Form	Use of stanzas, which are repeated units having the same number of lines, same metrical pattern, and often use identical rhyme	46
6612814378	Fixed Form	A traditional form of poetry	47
6612815137	Sonnet	Fixed form of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter	48
6612817934	Italian Sonnet	Divided by octave (rhymed abbaabba) and a sestet (rhymed cdcdc OR cdecde)	49
6612820242	English Sonnet	Divided by 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet (rhymed abab cdcd efef gg)	50