AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 7689665694 | Allusion | a reference to another literary work, a historical event, the Bible, or current event. | 0 | |
| 7689670324 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or in lines of poetry. | 1 | |
| 7689674051 | Blank Verse | Written in iambic pentameter, that mimics natural speech (non-rhyming) | 2 | |
| 7689679822 | Caesura | a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, and it often mirrors natural speech | 3 | |
| 7689689577 | Carpe Diem | a Latin phrase that means "seize the day" | 4 | |
| 7689693496 | Diction | word choice- diction must always be named AND described | 5 | |
| 7689700592 | Ekphrastic Poetry | a poem written about another work of art (in a different form, not literature) | 6 | |
| 7689709559 | Elegy | a poem written to contemplate death and mortality, and it can be about someone who passed. | 7 | |
| 7689722772 | End Stopped Line | a line that ends with punctuation that causes the reader to pause | 8 | |
| 7689727588 | Enjambment | a poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete meaning | 9 | |
| 7689738322 | Free Verse | no regular rhyme scheme or regular meter (can rhyme) | 10 | |
| 7689741854 | Iambic Pentameter | consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable, repeated 5 times (ten syllables) | 11 | |
| 7689750387 | Meter | the organization of stressed and unstressed syllables measured feet. | 12 | |
| 7689756191 | Ode | a form of poetry used to address a single object, person, or condition | 13 | |
| 7689760156 | Refrain | a line, lines, or stanzas that repeats at intervals. | 14 | |
| 7689764618 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme that occurs within a line | 15 | |
| 7689767198 | Slant Rhyme | (aka near rhyme) a rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same | 16 | |
| 7689772374 | Eye Rhyme | (aka sight rhyme) a rhyme that only works because the words look the same. | 17 | |
| 7689778136 | Style | the way a literary work is written, including diction, syntax, imagery, and other figuritive elements | 18 | |
| 7689786368 | Stanza | lines in a poem that the poet has chosen to group together | 19 | |
| 7689789995 | Tone | the authors attitude toward his/her subject | 20 | |
| 7689792612 | Villanelle | a form of poetry in which five trecets are followed by a quatrain. | 21 | |
| 7689802064 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in a line or lines. | 22 | |
| 7689805282 | Syntax (poetry) | includes the arrangement of words into lines where they break or not break, the use of caesura and enjambment, and line length | 23 | |
| 7689813551 | Oxymoron | two words that directly contradict each other but make sense in context | 24 |