AP Literature Flashcards

6680343441	metonymy	a figure of speech in which one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified. ex) "the press"	0
6680349955	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which part stands for a whole or whole for a part. ex) "wheels"	1
6680357634	paronomasia	a big word for puns	2
6680359141	synesthesia	presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation. ex) "for me, pain will always taste like oranges"	3
6680367914	litote	deliberate understatement with double negatives. ex) not unloved	4
6680373202	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	5
6680376495	consonance	repetition of consonants within words or at the end of words	6
6680378647	euphony	words containing consonants that permit an easy and smooth flow of spoken sound	7
6680381707	cacophony	percussive and choppy sounds, harsh and noisy pronunciation	8
6680383769	masculine rhyme	rhyming of two words with one syllable, ex) coat/float	9
6680388968	feminine rhyme	involve two or more syllables rhyming, ex) turtle/fertile	10
6680394857	internal rhyme	when an individual line of poetry has two or more words that rhyme	11
6680397105	slant rhyme	close but not perfect rhymes, ex) summer/somewhere	12
6680399688	meter	the number of feet within a poem	13
6680402137	poetic foot	the unit used to measure verse	14
6680404812	scansion	the process of determining the meter of a poem	15
6680408411	caesura	pauses within a line of poetry, usually with a period, dash, or semi-colon	16
6680411470	enjambment	a line that carries over to another without a pause	17