AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

5299582220	accent	the same as stress. a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented	0
5299587075	allegory	a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one	1
5299590573	alliteration	the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (ex: kill-code). Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels are also included	2
5299602201	allusion	a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history	3
5299604926	anapest	a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (ex: un-der-stand)	4
5299609668	anapestic meter	a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests	5
5299613617	anaphora	repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines	6
5299618024	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and could reply	7
5299623509	approximate rhyme	(aka imperfect, near, slant or oblique) a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound or correspondence but are not perfect rhymes	8
5299634080	assonance	the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words	9
5299638182	aubade	a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn	10
5299641318	ballad	a fairly short narrative poem written in songlike stanza form	11
5299643322	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	12
5299646210	cacophony	a harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds	13
5299648702	caesura	a speech pause occurring within a line	14
5299652241	connotation	what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition	15
5299655319	consonance	the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables of important words	16
5299658190	continuous form	the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning	17
5299664583	couplet	two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme	18
5299667834	dactyl	a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (ex: mer-il-ly)	19
5299672855	dactylic meter	a meter in which the majority of the feet are dactyls	20
5299675150	denotation	the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word	21
5299677031	didactic poetry	poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach	22
5299679724	dimeter	a metrical line containing two feet	23
5299682836	dramatic framework	the situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme	24