AP Literature Terms List 1 Flashcards
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| 7688866357 | Allusion | A reference to another literary work, a historical event, the bible, or a current event | 0 | |
| 7690741779 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry | 1 | |
| 7690746383 | Blank Verse | Written in Iambic Pentameter written in a way that is natural for us to speak, mimics natural speech-does not rhyme | 2 | |
| 7690757607 | Caesura | Pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated and it often mirrors normal speech | 3 | |
| 7690764728 | Carpe Diem | Seize the day | 4 | |
| 7690772960 | Diction | Word choice-always must be named or described | 5 | |
| 7690782119 | Ekphrastic Poetry | A poem written about another work of art (not literature) | 6 | |
| 7690786679 | Elegy | A poem written to contemplate death and mortality (can be about specific person who has passed) | 7 | |
| 7690798323 | End Stopped Line | It ends with punctuation that causes the reader to pause. However, the line always makes sense on its own | 8 | |
| 7690807578 | Enjambment | A poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning | 9 | |
| 7690818911 | Free Verse | No regular rhyme scheme (it can rhyme) nor does it have a regular meter | 10 | |
| 7690825854 | Iambic Petameter | 1 iam which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable 5 times | 11 | |
| 7690837436 | Meter | The organization of stressed and unstressed syllables measured in feet | 12 | |
| 7690847809 | Ode | A form of poetry used to address a single object, person, or condition | 13 | |
| 7690853213 | Refrain | A line, lines, or stanza that repeats at intervals | 14 | |
| 7690857296 | Interval rhyme | A rhyme that occurs within a line | 15 | |
| 7690863739 | Slant Rhyme (Near Rhyme) | A rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same | 16 | |
| 7690873826 | Eye Rhyme (Sight Rhyme) | A rhyme that only works because the words look the same | 17 | |
| 7690878456 | Style | The way a literary work is written, includes diction, syntax, imagery, and other literary elements | 18 | |
| 7690889027 | Stanza | Lines in a poem that the poet has chosen to group together | 19 | |
| 7690894237 | Tone | The author's attitude towards his/her subject | 20 | |
| 7690918650 | Villanelle | A form of poetry in which 5 tercets are followed by a quatrain | 21 | |
| 7690924747 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in a line or lines | 22 | |
| 7690928156 | Syntax (Poetry) | The arrangement of words into lines, where they break or do not break, the use of enjambement or caesura, and line lengths | 23 | |
| 7690944265 | Oxymoron | Two words that directly contradict each other but make sense in context | 24 |