AP Literature Midterm Vocab Flashcards

12004103877	soliloquy	one person's long speech in a play	0
12004114378	paradox	two things that sound like they shouldn't go together (similar to oxymoron)	1
12004126096	personification	giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	2
12004179682	ambiguity	unclear, a text that argues both ways	3
12004209348	dramatic irony	irony understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play	4
12004229732	versification	how a poem is structured (umbrella for meter, rhyme length etc.)	5
12004271038	paradigm	the perfect example of something	6
12004277751	rhetoric	the art of persuasion (trump has a specific rhetoric)	7
12004285621	heroic couplets	couplets (2 rhyming lines)	8
12004293040	ballad meter	a poem that tells a story (w/ 4 lines of iambic pentameter)	9
12004331472	Different meters	Iambic meter (unstressed/stressed) Trochaic meter (stressed/unstressed) Spondaic meter, (stressed/stressed) Anapestic meter (unstressed/unstressed/ stressed) Dactylic meter(stressed/unstressed/unstressed)	10
12004414395	free verse	unrhymed, no meter	11
12004422294	blank verse	unrhymed, iambic pentameter ( 10 beats per line)	12
12004450213	terza rima	triplets especially in iambs that rhyme aha,bcb, cdc, etc.	13
12004475230	Petrarchan sonnet	octet + sestet, volta in between, call and response	14
12004497791	elizabethan sonnet	3 quatrains + couplet, volta in between, variations on a theme	15
12004552340	Volta	The turning point in a sonnet	16
12004568292	slant/half/off rhyme	end rhyme that is not exact but approximate and is not as satisfying in a poem	17
12004608978	full rhyme	A pair of words which end with the exact sounding vowels and consonants	18
12004614267	meter	rhythm of a poem	19
12004661013	internal rhyme	rhyme in the middle of a line	20
12004666144	feminine rhyme	rhyme between words that have more than one syllable ( stereotype that women are more complicated)	21
12004682397	masculine rhyme	single syllable rhyme	22
12004689290	allusion	reference to something outside the text	23
12004703850	synecdoche/metonymy	part represents the whole	24
12004733227	periodic sentence	the heart of the sentence is at the end of the line and its made of a bunch of modifiers before the main point	25
12004750247	enjambment	a thought continues onto the next line (smooth and fluid)	26
12004762458	end stopped	thought ends at the end of a line (gives the opposite effect as enjambment as more choppy)	27
12004864857	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	28
12004876569	epistolary	told through letters	29
12004884529	bildungsroman	coming of age novel	30
12004892275	metaphysical conceit	extended metaphor	31
12004897878	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant (example: going to the ladies room)	32
12004944687	hyperbole	exaggeration	33
12004957601	Nature being sympathetic	nature resembles thoughts or feelings occurring in the poem	34
12088489955	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	35
12088489956	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	36
12088717133	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	37
12088748993	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	38
12089663871	iambic pentameter	poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable	39
12092059925	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	40
12092066519	important poetic devices to use	metaphor, imagery, structure, diction, antithesis, juxtaposition/duality, end-stopped or enjambment, full rhyme vs half-rhyme, free verse means to focus on seriousness and meaning	41