AP Literature: Style (Poetry) Flashcards

7445106106	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply	0
7445111058	Connotation	What a word suggests beyond its basic defenition; a word's overtones of meaning	1
7445117670	Denotation	The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word	2
7445123084	Ekphrasis	The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words	3
7445134612	Epigram	A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation; a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement	4
7445160831	Extended figure	A figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem	5
7445205220	Conceit	An extended metaphor	6
7445207513	Figurative language	Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally	7
7445213066	Figure of speech	Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another	8
7445223097	Juxtaposition	Positioning of opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast	9
7445228041	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike	10
7445233587	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience	11
7445238109	Onomatopoeia	The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (e.g. boom, click, plop)	12
7445248317	Personification	A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept	13
7445251154	Rhythm	Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	14
7445253476	Sentimentality	Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality	15
7445263498	Simile	A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike; it is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as "like", "as", "than", "similar to", "resembles", or "seems"	16
7445286015	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole ("all hands on deck")	17
7445289776	Syntax	Word organization and order	18