AP Literature terms Flashcards

9673859903	Denotation	Dictionary meaning(s) of the word	0
9673863325	Connotation	Suggested beyond what is expressed	1
9673866998	Imagery	representation through language of sense experience	2
9673874542	Auditory imagery	Image that represents a sound	3
9673882165	Olfactory imagery	Image that represents a smell	4
9673885809	Gustatory imagery	image that represents a taste	5
9673892710	Organic imagery	Image that represents an internal sensation (hunger, thirst, nausea)	6
9673901804	Kinesthetic imagery	Image that represents movement or tension	7
9673907035	Figure of speech	Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way	8
9673912806	Figurative language	Language using figures of speech	9
9673914355	Metaphor	An implied comparison	10
9673917235	Similie	A comparison using a word or phrase (like,as, than, similar to, resembles, seems)	11
9673927013	Personification	Giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concepts	12
9673930509	Apostrophe	Addressing someone or a thing that cannot answer back (someone absent, dead, nonhuman	13
9673941104	Synecdoche	Use of part to describe the whole	14
9673945339	Metonymy	The use of something related for the thing actually meant	15
9673949661	Symbol	Something that means more than what it is	16
9673955716	Allegory	A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface	17
9673966453	Paradox	An apparent contradiction that is true	18
9673968535	Overstatement	Exaggeration (describing something as more that it actually is)	19
9673972269	Hyperbole (literary term)	Exaggeration	20
9673986465	Understatement	Saying less than one meant	21
9673989857	Verbal irony	Saying the opposite of what one means	22
9673994544	Sarcasm	Bitter or cutting speech	23
9673996520	Satire	Ridicule of human folly or vice	24
9674001467	Irony of situation	Discrepancy exists between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate	25
9674011064	Dramatic irony	Discrepancy between what speaker says and what poem means	26
9674016659	Allusion	A reference to something in history or previous literature	27
9674023736	Tone	Writer's or speaker's attitude about the subject, audience, or self	28
9674032185	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds (tried and true; safe and sound)	29
9674045007	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds (mad as hatter; time out of mind)	30
9674051846	Consonance	Repetition of final consonant sounds (odds and ends; short and sweet)	31
9674062624	Rhyme	Repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds	32
9674074016	Masculine rhyme	Rhyme sound involves only one syllable (decks and sex; retort and support)	33
9674086310	Feminine rhyme	Rhyme sound involves two or more syllables (turtle and fertile; spitefully and delightfully)	34
9674093812	Internal rhyme	When one or more rhyming words are within a line	35
9674097546	End rhyme	When rhyming words are at the ends of lines	36
9674104963	Slant rhyme	Words with any sound similarity	37
9674107050	Rhythm	Wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	38
9674111941	Meter	Kind of rhythm we can tap our foot to	39
9674118910	Verse	Metrical language	40
9674120581	Prose	Unmetrical language	41
9674124239	Iamb	Unstressed stressed	42
9674131732	Troche	Stresses unstressed	43
9674136379	Anapest	Unstressed unstressed stressed	44
9674145788	Dactylic	Stressed unstressed unstressed	45
9674149525	Spondee	Stressed stressed	46
9674152507	Amphibranch	Unstressed stressed unstressed	47
9674158934	Caesura	A pause in the middle of a line (due to punctuation or natural phrasing/syntax)	48
9674167118	Monometer	One foot	49
9674170395	Dimeter	Two feet	50
9674171986	Trimeter	Three feet	51
9674176556	Tetrameter	Four feet	52
9674178350	Pentameter	Five feet	53
9674181048	Hexameter	Six feet	54
9674182434	Heptameter	Seven feet	55
9674189400	Octameter	Eight feet	56
9674193484	Scansion	Process of measuring verse	57
9674196288	Free verse	Close to common speech	58
9674199864	Euphony	Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds	59
9674210216	Cacophony	Harsh confusing disagreeable sounds	60
9674217973	Continuous form	Lines follow each other without formal grouping	61
9674222694	Stanzas	Repeated units having the same number of lines	62
9674232964	Fixed form	Pattern tha applies to whole poem	63
9674240950	Limerick	A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba	64
9674260750	Italian sonnet	Eight lines, six lines	65
9674263347	Octave	Eight lines	66
9674275411	Sestet	Six lines	67
9674277153	English sonnet	Three quatrians and a concluding couplet	68