AP Literature Flashcards

8509427872	Allegory	A story that has two levels of meaning. The first is the surface of the story and the second is the meaning and symbols of the story	0
8509427873	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	1
8509427874	Apostrophe	A term used to address someone or something not present in the poem	2
8509427875	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	3
8509427876	Attitude	The perspective that the author has on the subject	4
8509427877	Tone	The writers attitude toward the subject	5
8509427878	Audience	Who the work is intended for	6
8509427879	Conceit	An elaborate or unusual comparison when using unlikely metaphor simile hyperbole. (Dead as a door nail)	7
8509427880	Conotation	implied meaning of a word	8
8509427881	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. (All's well that ends well)	9
8509427882	Denotation	Dictionary definition of a word	10
8509427883	Diction	Word choice	11
8509427884	Dramatic poetry	is poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama	12
8509427885	Euphemism	an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive	13
8509427886	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	14
8509427887	Imagery	Descriptive words that spark a mental image	15
8509427888	Irony	The opposite of what is expected	16
8509427889	Situational irony	Events turn out the opposite of what was expected	17
8509427890	Verbal irony	Sarcasm	18
8509427891	Dramatic irony	When the audience knows something the characters don't	19
8509427892	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	20
8509427893	Extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	21
8509427894	Implied metaphor	a comparison that does not directly state that one thing is another. Ex. "The clouds galloped."	22
8509427895	Meiosis	When something is purposefully described as less than it is, normal for comic effect	23
8509427896	Metonymy	When one term is substituted with another term	24
8509427897	Mood	The feeling created in the reading	25
8509427898	Shift	When a poem changes in tone or mood	26
8509427899	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	27
8509427900	Neologism	Taking two things and combining them to make something new. Ex. Vlog	28
8509427901	Onomatopoeia	Sound effects	29
8509427902	Oxymoron	Two words that contradict. Jumbo shrimp	30
8509427903	Paradox	An oxymoron on a larger scale	31
8509427904	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	32
8509427905	Point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	33
8509427906	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	34
8509427907	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.	35
8509427908	Speaker	The voice of a work	36
8509427909	Symbol	Something that stands for something else	37
8509427910	Structure	the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work	38
8557849906	Ballad	a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature	39
8557959759	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	40
8557959760	Elegy (n)	A song or poem memorializing something or someone	41
8557959761	figurative language	writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally	42
8557959762	free verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter	43
8557959763	haiku poem	Japanes verse three line of 5, 7, 5 syllables (Metered poetry)	44
8557959764	iambic pentameter	A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet.	45
8557959765	lyric poetry	Personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings about the subject	46
8557959766	meter	Unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of beats	47
8557959767	narrative poetry	poetry that tells a story	48
8557959768	Odes	Poems that express strong emotions about life	49
8557959769	pastoral poetry	Idealizing the lives of shepherds and country folk	50
8557959770	refrain (v)	to hold back	51
8557959771	Repetition	Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity	52
8557959772	Rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	53
8557959773	rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyme in a poem	54
8557959774	end rhyme	Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry	55
8557959775	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	56
8557959776	perfect rhyme	Rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove)	57
8557959777	slant rhyme	two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly	58
8557959778	Rhythm	Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	59
8558074846	Satire	A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness	60
8558074847	Sonnet	A 14 line poem	61
8558074848	Petrarchan sonnet	poem that has one rhyming octave (8 lines) and one rhyming sestet (6 lines)	62
8558074849	Shakespearean sonnet	A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	63
8558074850	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	64
8558074851	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	65
8558074852	Tercets	3 line stanzas	66
8558074853	Quatrain	4 line stanza	67
8558074854	Quintet	5 line stanza	68
8558074855	Sestet	6 line stanza	69
8558074856	Septet	7 line stanza	70
8558074857	Octave	8 line stanza	71
8558074858	Syntax	Sentence structure	72