AP LITERATURE: Vocabulary Flashcards

7790778039	Diction	an author's choice of words	0
7790778040	Poetic Diction	the use of elevated language rather than the ordinary language	1
7790778041	Formal Diction	dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language	2
7790778042	Informal Diction	choice of words in a conversational manner, using slang expression that are not used by culture at large.	3
7790778043	Dialect	A form of language that is normal for its native group of people but peculiar to other groups of people.	4
7790778044	Jargon	Special words or expressions that make sense to one group of people but can be hard to understand to other groups.	5
7790778045	Denotation	the dictionary definition	6
7790778046	Connotation	the associations that come with a word	7
7790778047	Persona	the mask of an actor	8
7790778048	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	9
7790778049	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	10
7790778050	Dramatic Monologue	a poem where the speaker/character addresses the audience in a way to reveal something about their personality.	11
7790778051	Carpe Diem	"Seize the day" used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.	12
7790778052	Allusion	a reference to something.	13
7790778053	Perspective	point of view	14
7790778054	Ballad	narrative poems, tell a story, passed through generations.	15
7790778055	Literary Ballad	more complex and sophisticated version of a ballad	16
7790778056	Onomatopoeia	sound of the word suggest its meaning	17
7790778057	Alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sounds	18
7790778058	Assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	19
7790778059	Euphony	lines that are smooth, easy to say	20
7790778060	Cacophony	difficult to say or pronounce, not smooth	21
7790778061	End Rhyme	rhyme that comes in at the end of lines	22
7790778062	Internal Rhyme	rhymes in the same line	23
7790778063	Masculine Rhyme	Single syllable rhymes, or only one syllable rhymes	24
7790778064	Feminine Rhyme	More than one syllable rhymes	25
7790778065	Exact Rhyme	Rhymes that share the same stressed vowel sounds that follow the vowel	26
7790778066	Near Rhyme	The sounds are almost, but don't quite rhyme	27
7790778067	Consonance	identical consonant preceded by a different vowel	28
7790778068	Rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.	29
7790778069	Stress (accent)	Stress is the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others	30
7790778070	Meter	Unit of rhythm	31
7790778071	Prosody	the study of metre and its uses in lyric, epic, and dramatic verse.	32
7790778072	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.	33
7790778073	Foot	A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	34
7790778074	Rising Meter	one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one)	35
7790778075	Falling Meter- trochees and dactyls (i.e., a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables)-		36
7790778076	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
7790778077	Blank Verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.	38
7790778078	Caesura	a break between words within a metrical foot.	39
7790778079	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	40
7790778080	Form	can be understood as the physical structure of thepoem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.	41
7790778081	Fixed Form	Poems that have a set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical arrangements per line.	42
7790778082	Free Verse (open form)	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	43
7790778083	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	44
7790778084	Tercet	a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.	45
7790778085	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.	46
7790778086	Sonnet	A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England	47
7790778087	Italian Sonnet	ABBAABBA CDECDE	48
7790778088	English Sonnet	ABAB CDCD EFEF GG	49
7790778089	Limerick	A limerick is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), often humorous and sometimes obscene.	50
7790778090	Haiku	Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables.	51
7790778091	Elegy	Poem where someone is dead	52
7790778092	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.	53
7790778093	Parody	Based off of a serious work to make it satirical or funny	54
7790778094	Picture Poem	A poem where the lines are in such a way to make a picture.	55