AP Literature and Composition Set 4 Flashcards

7706923322	Pattern imagery	a group of related images developed throughout a work	0
7763367608	Synesthesia	the mixing of forms of imagery -ex: "He smelled the blue fumes of her scent."	1
7763370763	Static imagery	freezes the moment to give it timeless quality of painting or sculpture	2
7706928741	Imagism	movement in modern poetry influenced by haiku, stressing terseness and concrete imagery. Imagists: a group of 20th century poets, who created new rhythms and meters -ex of imagists: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Amy Powell	3
7706981176	Imperfect rhyme	rhyme where consonants in 2 words are the same but intervening vowels are different -ex: "pick/pack," "lads/lids"	4
7707013672	In media res	Latin phrase describing Homer's "Iliad" that begin in the middle of the action to catch a reader's interest	5
7707024363	Informal diction	idiomatic and relaxed -ex: John Updike's "A&P"	6
7707032128	Internal rhyme	rhyme consisting of rhyming words found within a line of poetry	7
7707043732	Types of Irony	Dramatic/tragic: irony that depends on the audience's knowing something the protagonist has not yet realized Verbal: when what is said is different from what is meant Situational: when something happens that is unexpected	8
7763031744	Jargon	specialized language associated with a particular trade or profession	9
7763036151	Kinetic imagery	imagery that attempts to show motion or change -ex: William Carlos William's "The Great Figure"	10
7763046295	Literary canon	group of literary works generally acknowledged to be the best and most significant; tends to be conservative and reflects ideological positions that aren't universally accepted	11
7763064601	Literary convention	something whose meaning is so widely understood within a society that authors can expect their audiences to accept and comprehend it unquestioningly -ex:division of plays into acts with intermissions, or stepmothers in fairy tales are likely to be wicked	12
7763086337	Literary criticism	descriptions, analyses, interpretations, or evaluations of works of literature by experts in the field	13
7763092661	Literary symbol	person, object, action, or idea whose meaning transcends its literal sense in a complex way -ex: rose in Blake's "The Sick Rose" or a swastika	14
7763118377	Low comedy	comedy with little or no intellectual appeal; coined by George Meredith -ex: used as comedic relief in "Macbeth"	15
7763140683	Lyric	form of poetry, usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world; set to music in classical times -ex: Keats often wrote these about love, death, and nature	16
7763150418	Masculine rhyme	rhyme where single syllables correspond; also called rising rhyme	17
7763152467	Meditation	lyric poem that focuses on a physical object, using this object as a vehicle for considering larger issues -ex: Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"	18
7763168765	Melodrama	sensational play that appeals shamelessly to the emotions, contains elements of tragedy but ends happily, and often relies on set plots and stock characters	19
7763183133	Metaphor	ex: "My love's a fortress," or "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen	20
7763191718	Meter	regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, each repeated unit of which is called a foot; most common is iambic pentameter	21
7763199688	Anapest	metric foot of 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed	22
7763205684	Dactyl	metric foot of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed	23
7763213215	Iamb	metric foot of 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed	24
7763219507	Trochee	metric foot of 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed	25
7763224504	Spondee	metric foot of 2 stressed syllables	26
7763227940	Pyrrhic	metric foot of 2 unstressed syllables	27
7763237471	Metonymy	figure of speech in which the term for one thing can be applied to another with which it is closely associated -ex: saying, "defend the flag" to mean "defend the nation"	28
7763247607	Mimesis	Aristotle's term for the purpose of literature, which he felt was imitation of life; literature represents the essence of life and we are affected by it because we recognize elements of our own experiences	29
7763268797	Monologue	extended speech by one character	30
7763278571	Mood	atmosphere created by the elements of a literary work	31
7763284084	Morality play	medieval Christian allegory	32
7763287388	Motivation	reasons behind a character's behavior that make us accept or believe that character	33
7763292675	Mystery play	medieval play depicting biblical scenes	34
7763297547	Myth	anonymous story reflecting the religious and social values of a culture or explaining natural phenomena, often involving gods and heroes	35
7763309177	Narrative	the "storytelling" of a piece of fiction; the forward-moving recounting of an episode and description	36