AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 6752693581 | Slant Rhyme | words that kind of sound like they rhyme but not really (purpose: to avoid monotony of repetitious conventional rhyme) | 0 | |
| 6754501048 | Rhyme Scheme | unifies lines and could indicate relentlessness and receptiveness as in "The Watch" by Francis Cornford | 1 | |
| 6754523747 | Alliteration | intensify effects, adds weight to an idea, makes verse easier to remember, and impacts sound- overused alliteration is purposely "silly" | 2 | |
| 6754540955 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds (purpose: melodic effect and binds lines together) | 3 | |
| 6754549648 | Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds (purpose: creates subtle harmonies) | 4 | |
| 6754575105 | Cacophony | discordant mixture of sounds | 5 | |
| 6754582199 | Euphony | pleasant sounds | 6 | |
| 6754967095 | Caesura | lines of poetry w/ punctuation (purpose: mimics human speech) | 7 | |
| 6754969648 | Enjambment | lines of poetry w/o punctuation (purpose: lines flow into each other indication tumbling effect) | 8 | |
| 6754983771 | Free Verse | ignores convention of meter and rhyme | 9 | |
| 6754986424 | Blank Verse | incorporates conventional meter, but not rhyme | 10 | |
| 6755025132 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing for the thing itself ("White house Plans New Tax Cuts") | 11 | |
| 6755034318 | Synecdoche | substitutes a part for a whole ("18-wheeler") | 12 | |
| 6755048099 | Oxymoron | phrase that seems self- contradictory or incompatible with reality ("free gift") | 13 | |
| 6755051437 | Paradox | apparently self-contradictory statement that under scrutiny makes perfect sense ("It was afternoon all evening") | 14 | |
| 6755069293 | Understatement | saying less that one means or using restraint in ironic contrast to what might be said | 15 | |
| 6755086021 | Litotes | a form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative one ("Not bad at all") | 16 | |
| 6755097283 | Tone | speaker's attitude towards the subject of the poem, the reader, or himself | 17 | |
| 6755112697 | Narrative Poem | tells part or all of a story, adheres to no prescribed form, primary purpose is to tell tales | 18 | |
| 6755118204 | Lyric Poem | expresses an individual's thoughts and emotions | 19 | |
| 6755130564 | Metaphysical Poetry | blends emotion w/ intellectual ingenuity | 20 | |
| 6755152442 | Ballad | originally sung, folk ballads tell engrossing stories about life, death, heroism, and more | 21 | |
| 6755158220 | Dramatic Monologue | poem spoken by one person to a listener who may influence the speaker with a look or an action by sats nothing | 22 | |
| 6755167006 | Elegy (dirge) | poem about mourning and meditation, usually about the death of a person by occasionally about other losses | 23 | |
| 6755182179 | Limerick | five lines built on two rhymes w/ the third and fourth lines shorter than the other | 24 | |
| 6755193273 | Ode | a celebratory poem, highly lyrical, or profoundly philosophical, odes pay homage to whatever the poet may hold dear | 25 | |
| 6755204594 | Villanelle | 19 line poem w/ 5 stanzas (3 lines each and concluding quatrain) | 26 |