AP Literature Flashcards

9142972823	Zeitgeist	The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history	0
9142972824	nihilism (n)	Belief in nothing	1
9142972825	Canto	one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided.	2
9142972826	Epic	Heroic	3
9142972827	Enjambment	When a physical line of poetry doesnt coincide with grammar	4
9142972828	endstopped line	Pause at the end of a poem emphazizes last words	5
9142972829	Metaphysics	The study of the nature of reality	6
9142972830	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	7
9142972831	Ode	Raising awarness to something making it a higher power	8
9142972832	Elegy (n)	a sad or mournful poem	9
9142972833	Synesthesia	Mingling of the senses	10
9142972834	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	11
9142972835	Couplets	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	12
9142972836	Sestets	Six lines	13
9142972837	Quatrain	4 line stanza	14
9142972838	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	15
9142972839	Free verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	16
9142972840	deus ex machina	an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation	17
9142972841	Sonnets	14 line poems	18
9142972842	Soliloquy	Speech to oneself	19
9142972843	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	20
9142972844	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	21
9142972845	Romanticism/Transcendentalism	acknowledged that truth can be found in emotion and intutition Literature and arts	22
9142972846	Modernism	New experimental styles	23
9142972847	Enlightenment	a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly	24
9142972848	Existentialism	No universal meaning to life Individualismt rathe than tradition	25
9142972849	Ubermensch	The superman that Nietzsche believed would enforce new ethical values/morals to control the masses.	26
9142972850	Epistemology	Study of knowledge	27