AP Quiz 1 Flashcards
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| 9685388951 | Iambic Pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 0 | |
| 9685394596 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 1 | |
| 9685398423 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 2 | |
| 9685407807 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 3 | |
| 9685410456 | Didactic | Instructive, designed to teach | 4 | |
| 9685413874 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 5 | |
| 9685422101 | Mock Heroic Style | satire, parody or trivialization of epic and pastoral genres | 6 | |
| 9685425736 | Elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 7 | |
| 9685429974 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 8 | |
| 9685433712 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | 9 | |
| 9685436614 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 10 | |
| 9685446964 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 11 | |
| 9685452845 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 12 | |
| 9685455712 | Somber | Dark, gloomy; depressed or melancholy in spirit | 13 | |
| 9685461905 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 14 | |
| 9685464918 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 15 | |
| 9685467539 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 16 | |
| 9685472142 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 17 | |
| 9685477176 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 18 | |
| 9685480003 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 19 | |
| 9685484708 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 20 | |
| 9685488612 | Secular | Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 21 |