AP Literature Terms #2 Flashcards

8243550460	Pastoral	a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.	0
8243550501	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	1
8243556049	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	2
8243556050	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.	3
8243560173	Slant rhyme	a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.	4
8243573839	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	5
8243577983	Polysyndeton	a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.	6
8243582758	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	7
8243592739	Elizabethan sonnet	a type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.	8
8243596525	Trochaic pentameter	a literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats.	9
8243616204	Trochaic tetrameter	is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet	10
8243620175	Iambic tetrameter	is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet.	11
8243620176	Exact rhyme	is rhyming two words in which both the consonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme.	12
8243625007	Chiasmus	a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form	13