AP Literature Vocab words Flashcards

9290006991	onomatopoeia	word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes	0
9290020928	alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables	1
9290028734	assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds (ex. earth, hearth)	2
9290048356	consonance	repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words (ex. odds and ends)	3
9290127287	caesura	some lines of internal pauses that are usually indicated by a period, a semicolon, a dash, or other punctuation	4
9290191928	enjambment	indicated by an absence of punctuation and eliminates the need to pause (run-on)	5
9290212360	free verse	ignores conventions of meter and rhythm	6
9290224379	blank verse	(unrhymed verse) incorporates conventional meter	7
9290318732	stanzas	grouped lines of verse that serves as a poem's building block	8
9332154326	diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing	9
9332122607	metaphor	a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	10
9332131590	simile	the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	11
9332161663	symbol	communicates a second meaning along with the literal meaning	12
9332169139	image	words and phrases that refer to something that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched	13
9332173221	personification	assigns human characteristics to a nonhuman object or to an abstraction such as love, death, envy, victory, etc...	14
9332182424	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, (suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing)	15
9332201637	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	16
9332208815	allusion	historical, literary, or cultural reference to a person, a place, or event	17
9332223391	allegory	a story or vignette that has both a literal and a figurative meaning	18
9332228151	oxymoron	a phrase that seem self-contradictory or incompatible with reality	19
9332233844	litotes	a form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative fact	20
9332255193	hyperbole	an exaggeration	21
9332260543	tone	the general character or attitude of the piece of writing	22
9332267790	irony	a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result	23
9332279473	narrative poem	tells part or all of a story (a poem)	24
9332283012	lyric poem	expresses an individual's thoughts and emotions (a poem)	25
9332300896	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	26
9332303653	couplet	two rhymed lines, usually in the same meter	27
9332306481	dramatic monologue	a poem spoken by one person to a listener	28
9332309883	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	29
9332313572	limerick	a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming "aabba"	30
9332323084	ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter	31
9332325962	sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line	32
9332331860	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with 5 three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain	33