AP Literature Flashcards

5994641311	Alliteration	The repetition of similar sounds usually consonants at the beginning of words.	0
5994641312	Antithesis	Opposites place next to each other.	1
5994641313	Consonance	When words resemble each other like napping tapping and wrapping.	2
5994641314	Hexameter	6 feet.	3
5994641315	Refrain	Verse or phrase repeated throughout a poem.	4
5994641316	Apostrophe	A direct address to an absent or dead or to an object quality or idea.	5
5994641317	Slant Rhyme	An imperfect rhyme also call an oblique rive or offramp in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same as between port at heart.	6
5994641318	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter blank verse bears a closer to the rhythms of ordinary speech getting poetry a natural feel Shakespeare's plays are usually written in blank verse.	7
5994641319	Couplet	Two successive rhymed lines that are equal length.	8
5994641320	Sestina	6 6 lines stanzas followed by a three line stanza. the same six words are repeated at the end of lines throughout the poem in a predetermined pattern. The last word in the last line of one stanza becomes the last word of the first line in the next. All six end-words appear in the final three line stanza.	9
5994641321	End-Stopped Line	When a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon.	10
5994641322	Enjambed	A single sentence that is broken up into multiple lines.	11
5994641323	Assonance	Repetition of sounds or about rhyme like weak and weary.	12
5994641324	Dactyl	A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.	13
5994641325	Diction	The choice or use of words.	14
5994641326	Sonnet	A single stands a lyric poem containing 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. In some formulations the first eight lines pose a question or dilemma that it is all in the final six lines.	15
5994641327	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable as in the rhyme between car and far.	16
5994641328	Carpe Diem	Literally, the phrase is Latin for "seize the day," from carpere (to pluck, harvest, or grab) and the accusative form of die (day). The term refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and should enjoy it before it ends.	17
5994641329	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	18
5994641330	Denotation	Literal meaning of a word	19
5994641331	Dimeter	2 feet.	20
5994641332	Villanelle	A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	21
5994641333	Anapest	Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable	22
5994670672	Audience	A person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes.	23