AP Lit: Poetic Devices Flashcards

6285486508	denotation	dictionary meaning(s) of the word	0
6285486509	connotation	suggested beyond what is expresses	1
6285486510	imagery	representation through language of sense experience	2
6285486511	auditory imagery	image that represents a sound	3
6285486512	olfactory imagery	image that represents a smell	4
6285486513	gustatory imagery	image that represents a taste	5
6285486514	organic imagery	image that represents an internal sensation (hunger, thirst, nausea)	6
6285486515	kinesthetic imagery	image that represents movement or tension	7
6285486516	figure of speech	any way of saying something other than the ordinary way	8
6285486517	figurative language	language using figures of speech	9
6285486518	metaphor	an implied comparison	10
6285486519	similie	a comparison using a word or phrase (like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems)	11
6285486520	personification	giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concepts	12
6285486521	apostrophe	addressing someone or thing that cannot answer back (someone absent, dead, nonhuman)	13
6285486522	synecdoche	use of part to describe the whole	14
6285486523	metonymy	the use of something related for the thing actually meant	15
6285486524	symbol	something that means more than what it is	16
6285486525	allegory	a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface	17
6285486526	paradox	an apparent contradiction that is true	18
6285486527	overstatement	exaggeration (describing something as more than it actually is)	19
6285486528	hyperbole (literary term)	exaggeration	20
6285486529	understatement	saying less than one meant	21
6285486530	verbal irony	saying the opposite of what one means	22
6285486531	sarcasm	bitter or cutting speech	23
6285486532	satire	ridicule of human folly or vice (formal term used in literature)	24
6285486533	irony of situation	discrepancy exists between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate	25
6285486534	dramatic irony	discrepancy between what speaker says and what poem means	26
6285486535	allusion	a reference to something in history or previous literature	27
6285486536	tone	writer's or speaker's attitude about the subject, audience, or self	28
6285486537	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sounds (tried and true; safe and sound)	29
6285486538	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds (mad as a hatter; time out of mind)	30
6285486539	consonance	repetition of final consonant sounds (odds and ends; short and sweet)	31
6285486540	rhyme	repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds	32
6285486541	masculine rhyme	rhyme sound involves only one syllable (decks and sex; retort and support)	33
6285486542	feminine rhyme	rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables (turtle and fertile; spitefully and delightfully)	34
6285486543	internal rhyme	when one or more rhyming words are within a line	35
6285486544	end rhyme	when rhyming words are at the ends of lines	36
6285486545	slant rhyme	words with any sound similarity	37
6285486546	rhythm	wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	38
6285486547	meter	kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to	39
6285486548	verse	metrical language	40
6285486549	prose	nonmetrical language	41
6285486550	iamb	unstressed stressed	42
6285486551	trochee	stresses unstressed	43
6285486552	anapest	unstressed unstressed stressed	44
6285486553	dactylic	stressed unstressed unstressed	45
6285486554	spondee	stressed stressed	46
6285486556	caesura	a pause in the middle of a line (due to punctuation or natural phrasing/syntax)	47
6285486560	tetrameter	four feet	48
6285486561	pentameter	five feet	49
6285486564	octameter	eight feet	50
6285486566	free verse	close to common speech	51
6285486567	euphony	any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds	52
6285486568	cacophony	harsh confusing disagreeable sounds	53
6285486569	continuous form	lines follow each other without formal grouping	54
6285486570	stanzas	repeated units having the same number of lines	55
6285486571	fixed form	pattern that applies to whole poem	56
6285486572	limerick	a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba	57
6285486573	Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet	eight lines, six lines	58
6285486574	octave	eight lines	59
6285486575	sestet	six lines	60
6285486576	english sonnet	three quatrains and a concluding couplet	61
6286039516	antagonist	a character or force against which another character struggles	62
6286045077	blank verse	a line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter	63
6286047078	characterization	the means by which writers present and reveal character	64
6286048837	climax	the turning point or greatest tension in a work	65
6286050780	closed form	a type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme length, line length and metrical pattern	66
6286056275	conflict	a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play	67
6286062218	convention	a customary feature of a literary work	68
6286063730	couplet	a pair of rhymed lines that may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem	69
6286071839	denouement	the resolution of the plot of a literary work	70
6286072788	dialogue	the conversation of characters in a literary work	71
6286074494	diction	the selection of words in a literary work	72
6286076001	enjambment	a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next	73
6286078493	epic	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	74
6286081790	epigram	a brief witty poem, often satirical	75
6286084072	exposition	the first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided - usually character, setting and conflict	76
6286087908	falling action	in the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement	77
6286090555	fiction	an imagined story, whether in prose, poetry or drama	78
6286092764	flashback	an interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action	79
6286095484	foot	a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables	80
6286098307	foil	a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story	81
6286101664	foreshadowing	hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story	82
6286102822	irony	a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature	83
6286106304	literal language	meaning what your words denote	84
6286109295	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	85
6286110272	narrator	the voice and implied speaker of a fictional work; not to be confused with the author	86
6286113762	ode	a long, stately poem; usually exalting or praising a subject	87
6286116559	onomatopoeia	the use of words to imitate the sound they describe	88
6286118077	open form	a structure of poetry characterized by freedom from	89