AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

9163490941	Idiom	A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).	0
9163490942	Euphemism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.	1
9163494495	Litote	ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ).	2
9163494496	Meiosis	a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.	3
9163494497	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	4
9163497379	Polysyndeton	the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy").	5
9163497380	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.	6
9163512317	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.	7
9163512318	Caesura	(in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.	8
9163514336	Enjambment	(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	9
9163514337	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.	10
9163518489	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	11
9163520572	cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. "a ______________ of deafening alarm bells"	12
9163520573	euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.	13
9163522485	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.	14
9163522486	sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.	15