AP Literature Vocabulary #8 Flashcards

6476423599	Free Verse	vers libre; poetry free from the regular meters, rhythm, or rhyme scheme; Usually found in contemporary poetry, although the movement was begun by realists and modernists, such as Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound.	0
6495699862	Cacophony	a series of short, consonant sounds that create a discordant, harsh, and unmelodious feeling that is unpleasant to listen to. Oftentimes relying on onomatopoeia, alliteration, or consonance, the difference is that cacophony is deliberately made to sound as unpleasant as possible.	1
6495719908	Euphony	creates a sweet, melodious sounds by using soft consonant and long vowel sounds; created by using assonance, alliteration, and rhyme	2
6495731288	moor	Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages, who initially were Berber and Arab peoples of North Africa	3
6495742525	furtive	suggestive of guilty nervousness	4
6495744129	imperturable	incapable of being disturbed	5
6495746479	implacable	impossible to calm down or be made peaceful	6
6500617274	taciturn	describing a person who is usually reserved and uncommunicative	7
6500629094	Enumeration	the action of mentioning a number of things one by one	8
6500631492	dubious	doubtful	9