Ap language Flashcards

4299887071	Metaphor	Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as	0
4299896315	hyperbole	exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect	1
4299903321	simile	a comparison of two unlike things using like or as	2
4299908639	personification	giving human characteristics to non human things	3
4299915551	imagery	words that create images in the mind	4
4299921172	rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyming words that appears at the ends of two or more lines of poetry	5
4299929925	alliteration	repetition of the beginning consonant sound	6
4299938603	assonance	repetition of an internal vowel sound	7
4299945265	onomatopoeia	the use of words that imitate sounds as in buzz, hiss, or murmur	8
4299950433	stanza	a unit or group of lines in poetry that are separated by spaces	9
4299955958	quatrain	4 line stanza	10
4299958340	couplet	2 line stanza	11
4299960586	haiku	a Japanese form of poetry with three lines of 5,7,5 syllables	12
4300000241	sonnet	fourteen lines of iambic pentameter popular by shakesphere	13
4300006367	myth	a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the causes of natural phenomenon	14
4300013707	mystery	a story that involves the reader in guessing who committed the crime or deed	15
4300019493	protagonist	the main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward	16
4300024920	hero	a character whose actions are inspiring	17
4300030325	science fiction	fictional stories that center upon scientific elements	18
4300033954	resolution	the tying up loose ends and the end of the story	19