AP Flashcards

6018675361	Free verse	A kind of poetry without rhymes lines, rhythm, or fixed metrical feet.	0
6018675362	Genre	A term used to describe literary forms	1
6018675363	Gothic novel	A supernatural novel with horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terros	2
6018675364	Harangue	A forceful sermon, lecture or tirade	3
6018675365	Heroic couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth century verse	4
6018675366	Hubris	The excessive price that often leads to tragic heros to their deths	5
6018675367	Humanism	A belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity	6
6018675368	Hyperbole	Oberstatement, gross exaggeration	7
6018675369	Idyll	A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place	8
6018675370	Irony	A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite	9
6018675371	Kenning	A device employed in Anglo Saxon	10
6018675372	Litotes	A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis	11
6018675373	Lyric poetry	Personal, reflective poetry	12
6018675374	Metonymy	A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent another	13
6018675375	Meter	The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable	14
6018675376	Moral	A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature	15
6018675377	Muse	One of the Ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts	16
6018675378	Narratuve	A form of verse or prose that tells a story	17
6018675379	Non sequiturn	A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from one before	18
6018675380	Ofe	A type of poem	19
6018675381	Onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning	20
6018675382	Ottawa rima	An eight line rhyming scheme or stanza	21
6018675383	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	22
6018675384	Pathos	Using sorrow to capture interest	23
6018675385	Pentamater	A verse with five poetic feet per line	24
6018675386	Persona	The role or facade that a character depicts to a reader at large	25
6018675387	Plot	What the point of the story was	26
6018675388	Protagonist	The main character in a work of literature	27
6018675389	Quatrain	A four line poem	28
6018675390	Realism	The depiction of people things and events as they really are without idealization	29
6018675391	Rhyme	The repitieron of similar sounds	30
6018675392	Romance	An extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places	31
6018675393	Sarcasm	A sharp, caustic expression or remark, a bitter	32
6018675394	Sentiment	A synonym for view or feeling	33
6018707899	Subtext	The implied meaning	34
6018707900	Voice	The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. In grammar, active voice	35
6018707901	Volta	Any shift or turning point ina. Work of prose or poetry	36
6018707902	Wit	The quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpected clever mess	37