AP Literature Flashcards
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| 5959676285 | Acerbic | Sharp and sarcastic | 0 | |
| 5959676286 | Sanctimonious | A show of superiority | 1 | |
| 5959676287 | Sagacious | A keen mental discernment (good judgement) | 2 | |
| 5959676288 | Epistrophe | Repetition | 3 | |
| 5959676289 | Leitmotif | A dominant recurring thing/symbol | 4 | |
| 5959676290 | Epistolary | A letter | 5 | |
| 5959676291 | Emjambment | No punctuation at the end of a line and continues on in the next line (poem) | 6 | |
| 5959676292 | Dirgelike | Funeral song/ mournful tone | 7 | |
| 5959676293 | Pastoral | Shepards, nature | 8 | |
| 5959676294 | Elegy | Poem that is for mourning/sorrow. Poem of remembrance for someone/something that has died | 9 | |
| 5959676295 | Ode | Poem of praise | 10 | |
| 5959676296 | Petrarchan sonnet | ABBA ABBA CDCD CD rhyme scheme | 11 | |
| 5959676297 | Didacticism | Teaching/essay, poem teaching a lesson | 12 | |
| 5959676298 | Elipsis | Leaving a thought unfinished | 13 | |
| 5964152541 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 14 | |
| 5964166435 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 15 | |
| 5964182263 | Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody). | 16 | |
| 5964286068 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 17 | |
| 5964182264 | Anaphoric | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 18 | |
| 5964286069 | Vitriolic | filled with bitter criticism or malice | 19 | |
| 5964286070 | Iamb | Unstressed stressed | 20 | |
| 5964286071 | 1 foot | 2 syllables | 21 | |
| 5964286072 | Homilies | a tedious moralizing discourse | 22 | |
| 5964286073 | Epigrams | a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending. | 23 | |
| 5964286074 | Axioms | a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. | 24 | |
| 5964286075 | Pedantic | Of or like a person who is concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning. | 25 | |
| 5964334448 | Adagelike | a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. | 26 | |
| 5964334449 | Satirical | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, | 27 | |
| 5964334450 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, i | 28 | |
| 5964334451 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 29 | |
| 5964334452 | Double entendre | a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent | 30 |