AP Literature Flashcards
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| 9430072544 | Antithesis | =rhetorical figure in which two ideas are directly opposed. The opposing ideas, to be truly antithetical, must be presented in a gramatically parallel way. " I long and dread to close" | 0 | |
| 9430080967 | Ballad | = a poem that recounts a story (a narrative) -generally of a dramatic episode- in the form of a song. Traditional ballads are passed down orally from one generation to the next. | 1 | |
| 9430091455 | Denoument | =resolution | 2 | |
| 9430093137 | Dissonance | =juxtaposition of jarring sounds | 3 | |
| 9430095540 | Doggeral | =rough, crudely written verse, usually comic | 4 | |
| 9430125149 | Epic (Homeric) simile | extended simile | 5 | |
| 9430128562 | Epigram | short, witty statement, graceful and ingenious | 6 | |
| 9430131503 | Epitaph | Inscription on tomb to commemorate deceased; poem that commemorates the deceased | 7 | |
| 9430133792 | Epithet | adjective/phrase applied to a noun to accentuate certain characteristics. Ex. The Virgin Queen, "Magic" Johnson | 8 | |
| 9430138748 | Elegy | poems that lament the loss of someone or something | 9 | |
| 9430143006 | Heroic couplet | pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines | 10 | |
| 9430148634 | Verbal Irony | attitude opposite to what is literally stated | 11 | |
| 9430150213 | dramatic irony | audience knows more than characters | 12 | |
| 9430151245 | situational irony | circumstances turn out to be opposite of those anticipated | 13 | |
| 9430153838 | Litotes | making an affirmative point by negating its opposite- "That's not bad" | 14 | |
| 9430157182 | Meiosis | use of deliberate understatement. Ex. Mercution describing his fatal wound as a "scratch" | 15 | |
| 9430162669 | Narrative verse | poetry that tells a story | 16 | |
| 9430164024 | Ottava rima | 8 lines, iambic pentameter (abababcc) | 17 | |
| 9430168230 | Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet | an octave (abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde or cdcdcd) | 18 | |
| 9430171020 | Quatrain | Stanza of four lines | 19 | |
| 9430173489 | Rhyme royal | 7 line stanza in iambic pentameter (ababbcc) | 20 | |
| 9430176650 | Spenserian Sonnet | sonnet with interlocking rhyme scheme | 21 | |
| 9430179622 | Synechdoche | part represents the whole (wheels for a car) | 22 | |
| 9430181852 | Tercet | 3 lines of verse | 23 | |
| 9430182759 | Terza rima | aba bcb cdc etc. | 24 | |
| 9430184930 | Villanelle | French fixed form (5 tercets and a quatrain, all with 2 rhymes) | 25 |