AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

8846995995	Antithesis	The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death."	0
8846996859	Verbal irony	A person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. Ex: It's no big deal, my dad just died.	1
8847000031	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Ex: Jumbo Shrimp	2
8847003884	Parallelism	the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. the use of successive verbal construction in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. Ex: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do do for your country.	3
8847006792	Cacophony	a harsh, discordant of sounds. Ex: "all mimsy the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. the jaws that bite, the claws that catch."	4
8847009450	Euphony	Agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words. Ex:too silver for a seam.A figure of speech by which	5
8847009451	Oxymoron	a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, Ex: Cruel kindness; to make haste slowly.	6
8847011714	Symbol	Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. Ex: flowers representing youth or beauty.	7
8847015635	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation. Ex: the tone of the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is humorous, childlike, nostalgic, yet increasingly dark, and serious.	8
8847017515	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by associated with its referent.	9
8847017516	Iamb	a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, asin Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love.	10
8847020510	Trochee	a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. Peter/piper/picked a/peck of/pickled/peppers.	11
8847020511	Anapest	a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter. A billard.	12
8847022456	Spondee	a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Skill was.	13
8847022470	Dactyle	a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, asin gently and humanly.	14
8847024349	Couplet	a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. Ex: But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee.	15
8847024350	Envoy	Short stanza at the end of a poem such as a ballad used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.	16
8847026992	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.	17
8847028659	Tercet	A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.	18
8847029364	Caesura	a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself/presume not God to scan.	19
8847033474	Litotes	understatement, especially that in which an affirmation is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."	20
8847035290	Metonymy	A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as"scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people."	21
8847040237	Syndecdoche	a figure in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.	22
8847041511	Simile	a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose."	23
8847041512	Metaphore	a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God."	24
8847043199	Trope	any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.	25
8847044332	Assonance	also called vowel rhyme, rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.	26
8847050139	Consonance	correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.	27
8847052112	Synesthesia	a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.	28
8847052113	Image	a mental representation; idea;conception	29
8847054664	Blank Verse	unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse	30
8847054665	Free Verse	verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern	31
8847058209	Lyric	having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramtic poetry.	32
8847060722	Narrative	a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.	33
8847062538	Terza rima	an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc	34
8847062539	Line	a row of written or printed words. a verse of poetry: a line in iambic pentameter contains five feet.	35
8847066703	Enjambment	the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.	36
8847067952	Didactic	intended for instruction; instructive	37
8847067953	Rhyme	a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind	38
8847071066	Rhythm	a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element,etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or modified form.	39
8847072711	Elegy	a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.	40
8847072712	Haiku	amajore form of japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, usually on the subject of nature.	41
8847075534	Limerick	a humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter form a rhymed couplet.	42
8847075535	Ode	a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.	43
8847078468	Sestina	a poem of six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy,originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end word of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.	44
8847080934	Villanelle	a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.	45
8847101009	Sonnet	a poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter which sometimes ends with a couplet.	46