AP Literature Flashcards

7158702429	Diction	style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words	0
7158702430	Denotation	the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression	1
7158703178	Connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning	2
7158703179	Formal	done in accordance with rules of convention or etiquette; suitable for or constituting an official or important situation or occasion; official; sincere	3
7158704336	Informal	having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature.	4
7158705134	Slang	very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom	5
7158705659	Colloquial	characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal	6
7158705660	Abstract	thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances such as an idea	7
7158706115	Concrete	constituting an actual thing or instance; pertaining to or concerned with realities	8
7158706927	Figurative language	language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	9
7158706928	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	10
7158707626	Simile	a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	11
7158708044	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	12
7158708835	Analogy	a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification	13
7158709386	Extended Metaphor	a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem	14
7158709387	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	15
7158709927	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is	16
7158709928	Paradox	a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true	17
7158710476	Irony	the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect	18
7158710477	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work	19
7158711164	Syntax	an author's specific arrangement of words and phrases; sentence structure	20
7158711790	Simple	easily understood or done; presenting something that is very straightforward	21
7158711791	Complex	consisting of many different and connected parts	22
7158712284	Cumulative	increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions	23
7158712285	Periodic	appearing or occurring at intervals	24
7158713003	Inverted	put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement; to reverse the normal word order of a structure	25
7158713004	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	26
7158714581	Caesura	a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line	27
7158714582	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	28
7158714583	Mood	inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind	29
7158715997	Free Verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	30
7158716607	End Rhyme	a poem that has lines ending with words that sound the same	31
7158717898	Internal Rhyme	a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next	32
7158717899	Near Rhyme	rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly	33
7158718538	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes	34
7158719758	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit	35
7158719759	Meter	the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by number/lngth of feet in a line	36
7158720796	Iambic Pentameter	a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable	37
7158720797	Blank Verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter	38
7158721127	Form	structure; how a piece is constructed and organized	39
7158721128	Sonnet	14 line poem with ten syllables per line	40
7158722600	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead; a poem written in elegiac couplets	41
7158723137	Lyric	a poem or verse expressing the writer's emotions	42
7158723138	Ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.	43
7158723139	Sound	music, speech, or effect used to reinforce meaning or evoke emotion	44
7158726084	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	45
7158726988	Assonance	the repetition of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	46
7158730057	Onomatopoeia	word for a sound	47
7158734243	Cadence	the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece; the momentary changes in rhythm and pitch which help set the rhythmic paces of a literary piece	48
7327217897	Rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.	49