AP Review Test Flashcards

6747204617	caesura	a pause, usually indicative of extreme emotion or awareness	0
6747204618	anacoluthon	A syntactic deviation and interruption within a sentence from one structure to another. In this interruption, the expected sequence of grammar is absent. The grammatical flow of sentences is interrupted in order to begin more sentences.	1
6747204619	anaphora	repetition of initial sentence structure	2
6747204620	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sound	3
6747204621	apostrophe	a speech to an inanimate thing	4
6747204622	asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	5
6747204623	polysyndeton	excessive use of conjunctions	6
6747204624	synecdoche	a part that represents the whole	7
6747204625	metonymy	a symbol that represents a larger idea or concept	8
6747204626	litotes	the use of a double negative to show a lack of enthusiasm	9
6747204627	telegraphic sentence	a sentence whose length if 5 or fewer words	10
6747204628	short sentence	a sentence whose length is between 6 and 17 words	11
6747204629	medium sentence	a sentence whose length is between 18 and 29 words	12
6747204630	long and involved sentence	a sentence whose length is 30 words or more	13
6747204631	epithet	a name or title given, in which the title personified the thing named	14
6747204632	pathetic fallacy	projecting the emotions of the speaker onto an inanimate object	15
6747204633	euphemism	a pleasant expression used in place of a harsh one	16
6747204634	dysphemism	a harsh expression used in place of a pleasant one	17
6747204635	denotative	the meaning as defined by the dictionary	18
6747204636	connotative	the suggested or implied meaning	19
6747204637	satire	a genre of comedy that is directed at ridiculing human foibles and vices	20
6747204638	direct/formal satire	satire when a 1st person narrator speaks directly to a sympathetic audience	21
6747204639	indirect satire	A fictional approach to satire where characters who represent certain points of view are made to seem ridiculous by their thoughts and behavior	22
6747204640	horatian satire	mocking satire that results in amusement	23
6747204641	juvenalian satire	satire that results in bitter feelings of disgust and disapproval	24
6747204642	irony	deliberate contrast between what is expected and what occurs	25
6747204643	sarcasm	A form of simple, crude irony in which apparent praise conceals another, scornful meaning	26
6747204644	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	27
6747204645	tragic irony	irony that occurs in tragedies	28
6747204646	cosmic irony	characters that are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by god or fate	29
6747204647	structural irony	An implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work. A major technique for sustaining structural irony is the use of a naïve protagonist or unreliable narrator who continually interprets events and intentions in ways that the author signals are mistaken	30
6747204648	syllogistic reasoning	A=B, B=C, then A=C	31
6747204649	anagnorisis	critical moments of epiphany or awareness	32
6747204650	digression	the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	33
6747204651	verisimilitude	in a literary work, the likeness to truth	34
6747204652	understatement	the presentation of something being smaller or less important than it actually is	35
6747204653	exposition	the beginning of a piece of writing, background information	36
6747204654	jargon	specific language within a profession or group	37
6747204655	motif	the repetition or variations of images or symbols to develop a theme	38
6747204656	pathos	appeal to pity / evokes feelings of sympathy	39
6747204657	pun	a play on words that are identical in sound but have different meanings	40
6747204658	parallel plots	a secondary story line that mimics the first	41
6747204659	resolution	the conclusion of a literary work	42
6747204660	scansion	the system for indicating metrical patterns and analyzing their effect	43
6747204661	iamb	unstressed followed by a stressed syllable	44
6747204662	free verse	open form poetry	45
6747204663	blank verse	poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter	46
6747204664	triple rhyme	a rhyme involving three syllables, e.g. happiness and sappiness	47
6747204665	terza rima	an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc	48
6747204666	refrain	A Refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, usually after the chorus or stanza	49
6747204667	ballad	a form of poetry that alternates lines iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story	50
6747204668	masculine ending	a line of poetry ending in a stressed syllable	51
6747204669	feminine ending	a line of poetry ending in a stressless syllable	52
6747204670	meter	the recurring pattern of sounds within verse	53
6747204671	eye rhyme	a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation	54
6747204672	perfect rhyme	Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different	55
6747204673	imperfect rhyme	a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds	56
6747204674	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain	57
6747204675	shakespearean sonnet	The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg	58
6747204676	petrarchan sonnet	a sonnet form consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd	59
6747204677	The first 8 lines of a petrarchan sonnet that state the problem or pose a question	octave	60
6747204678	The final 6 lines of a petrarchan sonnet that offer a solution to the problem or question posed	sestet	61
6747204679	In Italian, called "the turn," this is the line of poetry that signifies the shift from octave to the sestet	volta	62
7834835720	The ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character.	Ethos	63
7834838200	The appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.	Logos	64