AP Literature Terms 2 Flashcards
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| 7282436019 | Cacophony | In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 0 | |
| 7282436020 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 1 | |
| 7282436022 | Catharsis | A release of strong emotions. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play. | 2 | |
| 7282436023 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. Informal diction. | 3 | |
| 7282436024 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 4 | |
| 7282436025 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 5 | |
| 7282436026 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 6 | |
| 7282436027 | Dactyl | 3 syllables - stress on the first | 7 | |
| 7282436028 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words words (rather than at their beginnings) | 8 | |
| 7282436029 | Denotation | A word's literal meaning. | 9 | |
| 7282436030 | Dimeter | two foot line | 10 | |
| 7282436031 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 11 | |
| 7282436032 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 12 | |
| 7282436033 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. | 13 | |
| 7282436034 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, usually mournful manner. | 14 | |
| 7282436035 | Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | 15 | |
| 7282436036 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 16 | |
| 7282436037 | English Sonnet (Shakespeare) | a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond. | 17 | |
| 7282436038 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 18 | |
| 7282436039 | Feminine rhyme | last two syllables rhyme (lawful and awful) more complex | 19 | |
| 7282436040 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 20 | |
| 7282436041 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 21 | |
| 7282436042 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 22 | |
| 7282460503 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. | 23 |