AP English literature vocabulary Flashcards

4960862093	Foreshadowing	The use of clues to hint at what is going go happen later in the plot.	0
4960862094	Frame story	An introductory native within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell individual stories.	1
4960862095	Free verse	Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.	2
4960862096	Gothic	A term used to describe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements.	3
4960862097	Haiku	A brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s.	4
4960862098	Humanism	An intellectual movement of the Renaissance that restored the study of the classics and focused on examining human life here and now.	5
4960862099	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a voice effect.	6
4960862100	Iambic pentameter	A line of poetry made up of five iambs.	7
4960862101	Imagery	Language that appeals to the senses	8
4960862102	Incremental repetition	A device widely used in ballads whereby a line or lines are repeated with slight variations from stanza to stanza	9
4960862103	Industrial revolution	The period of social and economic change following the replacement of hand tools by machines and power tools, which allowed manufacturer to increase their production and save money.	10
4960862104	In medias res	The technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier.	11
4960862105	Irony	A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality	12
4960862106	Kenning	In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event directly.	13
4960862107	Laissez Faire	An economic policy based on the idea what economic forces should be allowed to operate freely and without government regulation.	14