Ap literature and composition terms Flashcards

4926163441	Alliteration	The repetition of identical or similar constant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.	0
4926163442	Allusion	A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known his store call or a literary literary event, a person, or work.	1
4926163443	Antithesis	A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "man prophecies: God provinces"	2
4926163444	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone usually but not always absent, someone abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present	3
4926163445	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.	4
4926163446	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
4926163447	Cacophony	A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds are tones	6
4926163448	Caesura	A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause.	7
4926163449	Consonance	The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words	8
4926163450	Couplet	A two line stanza, usually with and rhymes the same	9
4926163451	Devices of sound	The techniques of deploying the sound of words especially in poetry	10
4926163452	Diction	The use of words in a literary work	11
4926163453	Didactic poem	A poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson	12
4926163454	Dramatic poem	A poem orange employs a dramatic farm or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends	13
4926163455	Elegy	A sustained and formal poem setting forth the power it's mediations upon death or another solemn theme.	14