AP literature terms Flashcards

8715975170	Alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	0
8715975171	Allusion	A reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work	1
8715975172	Antithesis	A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas.	2
8715975173	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly as though they are there.	3
8715975174	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	4
8715975175	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
8715975176	Cacophony	A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
8715975177	Caesura	a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line	7
8715975178	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds in a group of words	8
8715975179	Couplets	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme usually at the end	9
8715975180	devices of sound	the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry	10
8715975181	Diction	The use of words in a literary work	11
8715975182	didactic poem	a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson	12
8715975183	Dramatic poem	A poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends	13
8715975184	Elegy	a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme	14
8715975185	end-stopped	a line with a pause at the end	15
8715975186	Enjambment	The continuation from of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.	16
8715975187	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	17
8715975188	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	18
8715975189	eye rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation	19
8715975190	figurative language	writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, irony, and simile	20
8715975191	Free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical. ex: Walt Whitman's poems	21
8715975192	Imagery	The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.	22
8715975193	Irony	The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning	23
8715975194	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	24
8715975195	lyric poem	any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings	25
8715975196	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	26
8715975197	Meter	The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry	27
8715975198	Metonymy	A figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word	28
8715975199	mixed metaphor	the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous	29
8715975200	Hyperbole	A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration	30
8715975201	narritive poem	a poem that tells a story	31
8715975202	Octave	8 line stanza	32
8715975203	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that imitate sounds	33
8715975204	Oxymoron	A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	34
8715975205	Paradox	A situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense.	35
8715975206	Parallelism	A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry	36
8715975207	paraphrase	a restatement of a text in a different form or in different words, often for the purpose of clarity	37
8715975208	Personification	A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	38
8715975209	Poetic foot	A group of syllables containing one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables	39
8715975210	Pun	A play on words	40
8715975211	Quatrain	4 line stanza with any combination of rhymes	41
8715975212	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	42
8722178657	Rhyme	Close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines.	43
8722178658	Sarcasm	harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule	44
8722178659	Satire	Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule	45
8722178660	Scansion	A system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line	46
8722178661	Sestet	6 line stanza	47
8722178662	Similie	A comparison using like or as	48
8722178663	Sonnet	14 line poem iambic pentameter	49
8722178664	Stanza	Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	50
8722178665	Structure	The arrangement of materials within a work.	51
8722178666	Style	The mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author.	52
8722178667	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	53
8722178668	Synecdoche	A form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole.	54
8722178669	Syntax	The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.	55
8722178670	Theme	The main idea of the story	56
8722178671	Tone	The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude	57
8722178672	Understatement	Opposite of hyperbole	58
8722178673	Rhythm	Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	59