AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 7815923170 | Allegory | whole text with pieces of it becoming symbols - obvious/figurative (ex: characters, events, settings = abstract quality) | 0 | |
| 7815923171 | Alliteration | Repetition of constant sounds at the beginnings of words | 1 | |
| 7815923172 | Allusion | Indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work | 2 | |
| 7815926540 | Anaphora | repetition of word or words at the beginning of successive lines, clauses, or sentences | 3 | |
| 7815926541 | Apostrophe | speaker addresses inanimate or absent party | 4 | |
| 7815932331 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words | 5 | |
| 7815936015 | Ballad (and literary ballad) | a :a narrative composition in rhythmic verse suitable for singing a ballad about King Arthur | 6 | |
| 7815936016 | Blank Verse | poetic, unrhymed lines of an iambic pentameter (pairs of syllables) | 7 | |
| 7815938266 | Cacophony | :harsh or jarring sound :dissonance 2; specifically :harshness in the sound of words or phrases | 8 | |
| 7815938267 | Conceit (as form of extended metaphor) | an elaborate or strained metaphor | 9 | |
| 7815943724 | Consonance | repetition of consent sounds within an at the ends of words | 10 | |
| 7815946961 | Connotation | emotional réponse evoked by a word in contrast to its denotation (literal meaning) | 11 | |
| 7815946962 | Detonation | a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea | 12 | |
| 7815959855 | Diction (and related terms: poetic, formal, middle, informal, dialect, jargon, colloquial) | writers or speakers choice of words, vocab and syntax (arrangement of words) | 13 | |
| 7815962187 | Didactic poetry | contain a clear moral or message or purpose to convey to its readers | 14 | |
| 7815962188 | Dramatic monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | 15 | |
| 7815965709 | Elegy | Poem written in tribute to a person, usually someone who died recently (tone: formal, dignified) | 16 | |
| 7815965710 | Enjambent | the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines | 17 | |
| 7815965711 | Epithet | Brief descriptive phrase that points out traits associated with a particular person or thing | 18 | |
| 7815968554 | Euphony | pleasing or sweet sound | 19 | |
| 7815968555 | Explicate (and be able to do this) | to develop the implications of :analyze logically | 20 | |
| 7815975452 | Figurative Language (figures of speech, as noted throughout) | language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words | 21 | |
| 7815979770 | Foot (and types of feet) | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 22 | |
| 7815979771 | Form | arrangement of words | 23 | |
| 7815982746 | Conventional (fixed or closed) Form | poems that follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas | 24 | |
| 7815987841 | Organic (irregular or open) Form | doesn't follow pattern | 25 | |
| 7815990296 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 26 | |
| 7815990297 | Hyperbole | figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis for humorous effect | 27 | |
| 7815992589 | Imagery | descriptive words and phrases a writer uses to recreate a sensory experience. Appealing to 5 senses. | 28 | |
| 7815994727 | Verbal Irony | someone states one thing and means another | 29 | |
| 7815997751 | Situational Irony | what's expected to happen and what actually happens | 30 | |
| 7815997752 | Dramatic Irony | readers know more than characters do | 31 | |
| 7816000339 | Litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") | 32 | |
| 7816000340 | Lyric Poem | When a poet writes an emotional, rhyming poem, she can call it a lyric poem. | 33 | |
| 7816007843 | Metaphor (including ALL variants described in Bedford) | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them | 34 | |
| 7816013078 | Meters* | 35 | ||
| 7816018236 | Metonymy | a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown") | 36 | |
| 7816020998 | Monody | an ode sung by one voice (as in a Greek tragedy) | 37 | |
| 7816020999 | Mood | feeling or atmosphere the writer creates of the reader using connotation, imagery, figurative language, sound, and rhythm, descriptive details | 38 | |
| 7816021000 | Narrative Poem | poem that tells a story using elements of character, setting, and plot to develop a theme | 39 | |
| 7816023819 | Onomatopoeia | "name making" using words that imitate sounds | 40 | |
| 7816023820 | Oxymoron | a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness) | 41 | |
| 7816023821 | Parallelism | use of similar grammatical constructors to express ideas that are related or equal in importance | 42 | |
| 7816026915 | Paradox | :a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true | 43 | |
| 7816026916 | Persona | a character assumed by an author in a written work | 44 | |
| 7816026917 | Personification | figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics | 45 | |
| 7816029764 | Protest Poetry | objection, complaint or revolt | 46 | |
| 7816029765 | Pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound | 47 | |
| 7816033336 | Repetition | repeated use of words or form | 48 | |
| 7816038372 | Rhyme (ALL related types; Bedford p. 927) | similar or identical sounds at the end of words | 49 | |
| 7816038373 | Internal Rhyme | occurs within a single line | 50 | |
| 7816040690 | End Rhyme | comes at the end of a line | 51 | |
| 7816040691 | Masculine Rhyme | Masculine rhyme occurs when the rhyme is on the final syllable of the two rhyming words. In one syllable words, masculine rhyme is easy to identify. For example, book and cook are only one syllable, and the repetition is the vowel sound ending with the k sound. | 52 | |
| 7816041000 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .). | 53 | |
| 7816044123 | Exact Rhyme | Exact rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel. For example, look at the word pair 'now' and 'cow' | 54 | |
| 7816049154 | Near (off, slant, eye, approximate) Rhyme | rhyme that is not exact, but approximate | 55 | |
| 7816049155 | Satire | a. literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn b. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly | 56 | |
| 7816053835 | Scansion (and be able to demonstrate this) | the analysis of verse to show its meter | 57 | |
| 7816061034 | Sound Devices | assonance and the repetition of consonant sounds in consonance and alliteration. | 58 | |
| 7816061035 | Stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme | 59 | |
| 7816065162 | Symbol (and types: conventional versus contextual) | Conventional - widely recognized signs or sign systems that signify a concept or idea that all members of a group understand based on a common cultural understanding Contextual - defined by a situation or the signs surrounding it. | 60 | |
| 7816065163 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage) | 61 |