Ap Literature Flashcards

3503253106	Alliteration	The occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	0
3503253107	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, evokes certain emotions within readers and establishes a deeper layer of meaning by alluding to another work that they are familiar with	1
3503366762	Ambiguity	The meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence that is uncertain. These words can have more than one meaning used to create humor in a text or passage	2
3503366763	Antithesis	Literal meaning is the opposite, used when two opposite ideas are used together to bring a contrasting effect, the effect is to make things more dramatic by putting it with the opposite.	3
3503497541	Approximate rhyme	Sound similar but are not actually the same the author keeps the same vowel sounds but uses words with different ending consonant sounds.	4
3503497542	Slant rhymes	Lines in which the ending words sound somewhat alike, stressed syllables of ending consonants match but the following vowels do not	5
3503497543	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences	6
3503497544	Aubade	A morning love song it's opposite is called a serenade, an evening love song	7
3503497545	Ballads	It is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	8
3503497546	Blank verse	Has no rhyme scheme but does have an iambic pentameter, two syllables long one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable	9
3503535203	Cacophony	Highlights a situation where there is a mixture of harsh sounds.	10
3503610105	Caesura	A break between words with a metrical foot	11
3503610106	Carpe Diem	An exclamation used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future	12
3503610107	Conceit	A metaphor that compares two objects that are nothing alike	13
3503748075	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	14
3503748076	Consonance	A repetitive sound produced by consonants with a sentence or a phrase	15
3503748077	Dactyl	Is a metrical foot, or beat in a line that contains three syllables where the first syllable is accented/stressed followed by unaccented second and third syllables	16
3503748078	Denotation	A words literal meaning	17
3503748079	Hyperbole	The exaggeration of statements or claims meant to be taken literally	18
3503748080	Diction	Is the way a person talks, the way a person pronounces their words, and which words and phrases a person chooses to use	19
3503748081	Dramatic monologue	Dialogue spoken by a character different from the poet's or writer's words in order to illuminate the character's qualities and emotions	20
3503748082	Dramatic situation	A situation in a narrative or dramatic work in which people are invoked in conflicts that solicit the audience's empathetic involvement in their predicament	21