AP literature tri 2 Flashcards

3935981062	Anaphora	The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	0
3935981063	Aside	A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	1
3935981064	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	2
3935981065	Cadence	The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense	3
3935981066	Canto	The name for a selection division in a long work of poetry. Divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel	4
3935981067	Chorus	In Greek drama, this is the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it.	5
3935981068	Colloquial language	This is a word or phrase used in everyday conversation English that isn't a part accepted "school work" English	6
3935981069	Couplet	A pair of lines that end rhyme	7
3935981070	Free verse	Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	8
3935981071	Internal verse	A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line	9
3935981072	Meter	A regularized rhyme; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time	10
3935981073	Prelude	An introductory poem to a longer work of verse	11
3935981074	Rhapsody	An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	12
3935981075	Ellipsis	The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the text	13
3935981076	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	14
3935981077	Litotes	A type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite	15
3935981078	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	16
3935981079	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered	17
3935981080	Inverted word order (inversion)	Inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect	18
3935981081	Parallelism	The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms	19
3935981082	Aphorism	A concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance	20
3935981083	Syllepsis	A construction in which one word is used in different senses	21
3935981084	Imperative	Having the form that expresses a command rather than a statement or a question	22
3935981085	Dirge	This is a song for the dead. It's typically slow, heavy, and melancholy	23
3935981086	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme. Usually has a naive folksy quality that distinguishes it from epic poetry	24
3935981087	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful manner	25
3935981088	Epic	A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. Typically deal with a glorious or profound subject matter	26
3935981089	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	27
3935981090	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world	28
3935981091	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds	29
3935981092	Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character alone on stage; gives the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoguht	30
3935981093	Sonnet	A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme that is usually two main types--the Italian or English	31
3935981094	In medias res	Latin phrase for the middle of things	32
3935981095	Dynamic character	Characters that are shown to change and grow because of what happens to them	33
3935981096	Round character	Characters that are complex and sometimes even challenging to understand; richly developed	34
3935981097	Flat character	Characters that are generally less developed	35
3935981098	Static character	Characters that don't change over the course of the story	36
3935981099	Stock character	Characters that are stereotypes and easily recognized by readers or audiences	37
3935981100	Third person limited	Narrator that has limited omniscience. The narrator only narrates from one character's point of view	38
3935981101	Third person objective	Narrator does not look into the mind of any characters or explain why any character does what they do	39
3935981102	Stream of consciousness	The continuous flow of thoughts from one or more characters; it is not used as often and includes all the thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings of the character; characterized by unstructured syntax	40
3935981103	Selection of detail	The author's choice of (specific) events, words, incidents, etc. which are used to make or create a narrative/scene	41
3935981104	Characterization	Representation of a character(s) on the stage or in writing, especially by imitating or describing actions, gestures, or speeches	42