AP Literature quiz 6 Basic Terms Flashcards

9974074736	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	0
9974074737	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	1
9974077499	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	2
9974080631	tercet	3 line stanza	3
9974083238	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	4
9974083241	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	5
9974086614	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	6
9974086615	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	7
9974092024	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	8
9974092025	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	9
9974095583	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	10
9974109561	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	11