AP Literature Flashcards
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| 9876680971 | Allegory | Story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 9876691950 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite or someone or something else | 1 | |
| 9876697790 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 2 | |
| 9876704431 | Heroic couplets | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters | 3 | |
| 9876712866 | Dramatic irony | Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 4 | |
| 9876732199 | Apostrophe | Speaking directly to someone not present | 5 | |
| 9876739550 | Assonance | Repitition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables | 6 | |
| 9876748735 | Sestina | A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at line ends | 7 | |
| 9876762944 | English sonnet | Abab cdcd efef gg | 8 | |
| 9876771364 | Italian sonnet | Abba abba cdecde | 9 | |
| 9876813130 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line | 10 | |
| 9876830409 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 11 | |
| 9876838822 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole | 12 | |
| 9876866118 | Iambic tetrameter | Four iambic feet | 13 | |
| 9876886592 | Iambic trimeter | Three iambic units | 14 | |
| 9876892037 | Omniscient | Knowing everything | 15 | |
| 9876896402 | Caesura | A pause in the middle of a line | 16 | |
| 9876904791 | Idiom | A group of words established by usage and having a meaning not deductible from those of the individual words (Rain cats and dogs) | 17 | |
| 9876919059 | Anaphora | The repition of the first part of the sentence | 18 | |
| 9876926442 | Malapropism | The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one | 19 | |
| 9877034852 | Denouement | Final part of a play or movie | 20 |