AP Flashcards

8491164544	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	0
8491164545	anachronism	something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred	1
8491164546	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	2
8491164547	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	3
8491164548	Aside (n)	a line spoken by a character that other characters on stage cannot hear.	4
8491164549	epic style	sustained elevation is used	5
8491164550	Gothic style	Style of architecture developed to allow space for huge stained glass windows fro light	6
8491164551	Ballad	a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature	7
8491164552	slant rhyme	two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly	8
8491164553	invocation	the act of appealing for help	9
8491164554	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	10
8491164555	Polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	11
8491164556	Litotes	ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	12
8491164557	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	13
8491164558	periodic sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.	14
8493490719	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	15
8493490720	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	16
8493490721	Consonance	the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words	17
8493490722	end rhyme	Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry	18
8493490723	euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	19
8493490724	cacophony	harsh sounds	20
8493490725	eye rhyme	Words that look alike but do not rhyme at all	21
8493490726	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	22
8493490727	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	23
8493490728	internal rhyme	a rhyme between words in the same line	24
8493490729	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	25
8493490730	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	26