AP Literature Terms Flashcards

4947248251	Anachronism	The thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned	0
4947248252	Approximate Rhyme	When two words have the same vowel sounds but end with different sounding consonants	1
4947248253	Aubade	A poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning	2
4947248254	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	3
4947248255	Catharsis	The process of releasing strong or repressed emotions	4
4947248256	Couplet	Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit	5
4947248257	Denouement	The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resloved	6
4947248258	Didactic poetry	Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills	7
4947248259	Elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	8
4947248260	English sonnet	ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, iambic pentameter	9
4947248261	Euphony	The quality of being pleasing to the ear	10
4947248262	Farce	A comic dramatic work using horseplay that includes crude characterization and ludicrous situations	11
4947248263	Italian sonnet	ABBAABBA	12
4947248264	Motif	A distinctive feature or dominant idea in a literary work	13
4947248265	Octave	Eight lines of iambic pentameter, ABBAABBA	14
4947248266	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	15
4947248267	Quatrain	A stanza of four rhymes	16
4947248268	Scansion	The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	17
4947248269	Sestet	The last six lines of a sonnet	18
4947248270	Terza Rima	An arrangement of triplets that rhyme ABA BCB CDC	19