AP Literature Terminology Flashcards
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| 8182382078 | Consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. EX: "pitter patter" | 0 | |
| 8182382079 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme of final stressed syllables EX: "blow/grow" | 1 | |
| 8182384657 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables "glamorous/amorous" | 2 | |
| 8182384658 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. EX:I think I had never seen A verse as beautiful as a flower. | 3 | |
| 8182387370 | Ode | A form of poetry that isn't very long. EX: A sonnet | 4 | |
| 8182389898 | Apostrophe | When a writer detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. EX: "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." | 5 | |
| 8182392264 | Anchorism | An error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece. EX: "Brutus: Peace! Count the clock. Cassius: The clock has stricken three." | 6 | |
| 8182392265 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds. EX: "She likes to type all night." | 7 | |
| 8182394439 | Ballad | A form of poetry that alternates lines of four and three beats, often in quatrains, rhymed abab, and often telling a story. EX: "When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach so She ran away in her sleep" | 8 | |
| 8182394440 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. EX:"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," | 9 | |
| 8182396854 | Lyric Poetry | A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, EX: Turn back the heart you've turned away Give back your kissing breath Leave not my love as you have left The broken hearts of yesterday | 10 | |
| 8182396855 | Petracharn Sonnet | A rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. EX: "Sonnet 116 - Let me not..." by William Shakespeare | 11 | |
| 8182399086 | Spenserian Sonnet | Sonnet divided into three quatrains, or segments of four lines, followed by a rhyming couplet. EX: "How Much for One Night?" by Daniel Turner | 12 | |
| 8182401942 | Shakespearean Sonnet | The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. EX: "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare | 13 | |
| 8182406979 | Asyndeton | Absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. EX: "Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?" | 14 | |
| 8182410102 | Anaphora | The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence EX: "And then she says she loves me; And then she says she needs me; And then I realize she's a lie." | 15 |