AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

8705913393	Metaphysical Conceit	A type of simile or metaphorwhich establishes a striking parallel between startlingly dissimilar things.	0
8705913394	limited narration	the narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one character (main character)	1
8705913395	Caesura	A strong pause within a metrical foot	2
8705913396	Apostrophe	address or someone speaking to an absent or imaginary person	3
8705913397	carpe diem	seize the day	4
8705913398	Blank Verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
8705913399	Enjambment	the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next	6
8705913400	Elizabethan sonnet	A fourteen-line poem with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg & three quatrains	7
8705913401	free indirect discourse	characters' thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through the third-person narrator	8
8705913402	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme or rhyme	9
8705913403	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	10
8705913404	Iamb	unstressed, stressed	11
8705913405	iambic pentameter	a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable 10 beats per line	12
8705913406	Gothic novel	A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action	13
8705913407	Trochee	Stressed, unstressed	14
8705913408	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant(sarcasm)	15
8705913409	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	16
8705913410	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	17
8705913411	Symbol	Something that represents something else	18
8705913412	Scansion	The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain	19
8705913413	rhyming couplet	a pair of lines that rhyme	20