AP Literature Page 373 Flashcards
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| 7862876206 | Rhetorical stance | Language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to particular subject | 0 | |
| 7862876707 | Rhyme | The repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry | 1 | |
| 7862877530 | Rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhymes within a given poem | 2 | |
| 7862877890 | Rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry | 3 | |
| 7862880787 | Roman a clef | French for a novel in which historical events and actual people appear under the guise of fiction | 4 | |
| 7862881340 | Romance | An extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places | 5 | |
| 7862881875 | Sarcasm | A sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt | 6 | |
| 7862883595 | Satire | A literary style used to poke fun at, attack or ridicule an idea or vice, often for the purpose of inducing change | 7 | |
| 7862886361 | Scan | The act of determining the meter of a poetic line. If a verse doesn't "scan", its meter is irregular (Pattern is called scansion) | 8 | |
| 7862889594 | Sentiment | A synonym for view or feeling, also a tender emotion in literature | 9 | |
| 7862890484 | Sentimental | A term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience ; also nauseatingly nostalgic | 10 | |
| 7862891496 | Setting | The total environment for the action in a novel or play. It includes time, place, historical, milieu and social circumstances | 11 | |
| 7862893016 | Simile | A figurative comparison using the words like or as | 12 | |
| 7862893656 | Sonnet | A popular form of verse consisting of 14 lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. (Shakespeare wrote what has become known as Elizabethan sonnet; Other follow a form called Italian sonnet, attributed to Petrarch) | 13 | |
| 7862896471 | Stanza | A group of 2 or more lines in poetry combines according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan | 14 | |
| 7862896889 | Stream of consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind. | 15 | |
| 7862899780 | Style | The manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes, ideas, forms sentences, and creates a structure to convey ideas | 16 | |
| 7862900342 | Subplot | A subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot | 17 | |
| 7862901008 | Subtext | The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature | 18 | |
| 7862901456 | Symbolism | The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object. | 19 | |
| 7862902890 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole (fifty masts for fifty ships) or the whole signifies the part (days for life); when the name of a material stands for the thing itself (pigskin for football) | 20 |