AP Lit Terms Flashcards

5442479629	elegy	a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.	0
5442485140	a villanelle	a verse form of French origin consisting of 19 lines arranged in five tercets and a quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet recur alternately at the end of each subsequent tercet and both together at the end of the quatrain	1
5442486699	an ode	a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion	2
5442486700	free verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	3
5442489811	soliloquy	an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with "To be or not to be.".	4
5442489812	apostrophe	when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem. The speaker could be addressing an abstract concept like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea.	5
5442491995	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.	6
5442496882	metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people."	7
5442499429	onomatopoeia	the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound	8
5442501003	couplet	a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length	9
5442502238	spondee	a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter	10
5442503484	iambic pentameter	a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable	11
5442503485	quatrains	a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes	12
5442505802	enjambment	the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.	13
5442505803	epitaph-VW	a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site	14
5442508678	paradox	It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth	15
5442510424	parallel structure	(also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction	16
5442511686	extended metaphor	a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem: Robert Frost uses two roads as an extended metaphor in "The Road Not Taken."	17
5442513136	parody	a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing	18
5442514789	logical fallacy	an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy.	19
5442516039	invective- VW	vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach	20
5442517445	parable	a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.	21
5442517446	jargon	the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group	22
5442519734	elegiac- VW	expressing sorrow or lamentation	23
5442521368	didactic	intended for instruction	24
5442521369	epigrams	any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed	25
5442523712	cacophony	harsh discordance of sound; hoots, cackles, and wails.	26
5442525065	literary conceit	is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors.	27
5442527010	assonance	rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.	28