AP Literature Terms 5 Flashcards
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7349303070 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 0 | |
7349303071 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 1 | |
7349303072 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 2 | |
7349303073 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 3 | |
7349303074 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events | 4 | |
7349303075 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents | 5 | |
7349303076 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 6 | |
7349303077 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 7 | |
7349303078 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 8 | |
7349303079 | Paratactic Sentence | style of using sentences together that have little or no correlation | 9 |