AP Literature Summer Vocab Flashcards

7215317437	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	0
7215322878	allusion	an indirect or passing reference to something	1
7215325711	anapest	a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable	2
7215330895	apostrophe	in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing	3
7215332336	assonance	the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables near each other ex. penitence	4
7215337286	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas; usually sentimental or romantic	5
7215339866	blank verse	verse without rhyme; particularly in iambic pentameter	6
7215341388	Bildungsroman	a novel dealing with a person's formative years or spiritual education	7
7215343721	caesura (Greek & Latin)	a break between words within a metrical foot	8
7215345957	caesura (modern)	a pause near the middle of a line	9
7215347330	colloquialism	the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases; language that is not formal or literary	10
7215349761	conceit	a metaphor that compares two unlike things in a surprising or clever way; often extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem	11
7215355052	connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning	12
7215357166	consonance	recurrence of similar sounds (consonants) in close proximity	13
7215358885	convention	practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device	14
7215360907	couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	15
7215361437	dactyl	stressed, unstressed, unstressed	16
7215363375	denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	17
7215364508	diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.	18
7215364810	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	19
7215365489	dramatic monologue	a long speech or poem in which one person speaks reflecting on a problem or situation.	20
7215367539	dramatic poem	relies heavily on literary devices such as monologue or dialogue, often tells a story	21
7215369299	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	22
7215370399	epiphany	A moment of great insight; revelation	23
7215370834	explication	The interpretation or analysis of a text.	24
7215371308	figurative language	language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.	25
7215371868	foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	26
7215372421	foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	27
7215373030	formulaic	following a formula or set procedure	28
7215376631	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	29
7215383754	hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence	30
7215387883	hyperbole	exaggeration	31
7215387884	iamb	An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, an iambic foot.	32
7215392108	iambic pentameter	A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet	33
7215392818	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	34
7215393328	internal rhyme	when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry	35
7215394641	intrusive narrator	keeps interrupting the narrative to address the reader	36
7215395455	irony	the use of words to express something other than the literal meaning	37
7215397758	leitmotif	a dominant or recurring theme or emotion	38
7215399358	literal	Word for word; verbatim	39
7215400533	litotes	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite	40
7215401373	lyric	A short poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker	41
7215402242	metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	42
7215402970	meter	measure	43
7215403534	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	44
7215404730	synecdoche	using one part of an object to represent the entire object	45
7215406478	monologue	A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group.	46
7215407190	mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	47
7215407941	motif	a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition	48
7215408466	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	49
7215408467	narrator	the person telling the story	50
7215408977	octave	an eight-line stanza	51
7215409416	ode	a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life	52
7215411174	onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	53
7215411704	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	54
7215412398	parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	55
7215412910	paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	56
7215413227	paraphrase	a restatement of a text or passage	57
7215413228	parody	a satirical imitation	58
7215414217	pathos	appeal to emotion	59
7215414218	persona	An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.	60
7215414757	personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	61
7215415427	prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry	62
7215415996	pun	a humorous play on words	63
7215416574	quatrain	A four line stanza	64
7215416946	refrain	the repetition of a similar line, phrase or group of lines repeated throughout a poem	65
7215417742	rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	66
7215418497	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	67
7215418498	rhythm	A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.	68
7215419174	satire	using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule	69
7215419834	scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	70
7215420546	sestet	a six-line stanza	71
7215420944	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	72
7215421627	sonnet	14 line poem in iambic pentameter	73
7215422184	spondee	A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed	74
7215422887	stanza	a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.	75
7215423775	stress	emphasis	76
7215424770	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	77
7215425082	subplot	a secondary plot that occurs along with the main plot	78
7215425673	symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	79
7215426046	symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	80
7215426529	syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	81
7215427370	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	82
7215427857	tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	83
7215428267	trochee	a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	84
7215428769	verse	a line of poetry	85
7215431384	metaphysical poem	Revolutionary, use of new metaphors describe the works of 17th century english poets, beyond physical	86
7215434699	pastoral	A literary work that idealizes country and rural life	87
7215435135	prose poem	prose that uses poetic language extensively	88
7215435608	villanelle	A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout.	89