AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

4341033495	Meter	Describes the rhythm of stresses structured into a recurrence of regular units of stressed and unstressed syllables.	0
4341033496	Foot	A rhythmic unit into which a line of metrical verse is divided.	1
4341033497	Stanza	A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem.	2
4341033498	Enjambment	Run-on lines	3
4341033499	End-Stopped	The pause in the reading of a poem.	4
4341033500	Caesura	A strong phrasal pause falls within a line; provides sentence with emphasis.	5
4341033501	Rhyme	The identity of sound between syllables or paired groups of syllables.	6
4341033502	Iambic Pentameter	Five metric feet of a light syllable followed by a stressed syllable.	7
4341033503	Heroic Couplet	Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs	8
4341033504	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	9
4341033505	Free Verse	Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter.	10
4341033506	Sonnet	A 14 line, iambic pentameter poem	11
4341033507	Villanelle	Composed of uneven number of tercets.	12
4341033508	Terza Rima	Verse composed of three-line stanzas with interlocking rhyme scheme.	13
4341033509	Royal Rhyme	A seven-line poetic stanza written in iambic pentameter.	14
4341033510	Tone	The authors attitude and relationship to his material.	15
4341033511	Diction	Word choice.	16
4341033512	Syntax	Sentence patterns.	17
4341033513	Metaphor	A comparison of two unlike things suggesting a shared common quality.	18
4341033514	Simile	Comparison of two unlike things using like or as.	19
4341033515	Personification	Giving human qualities to inanimate things.	20
4341033516	Hyperbole	Exaggeration for purpose and effect.	21
4341033517	Irony	An unexpected twist.	22
4341033518	Litotes	An affirmation made indirectly by denying it's opposite.	23
4341033519	Alliteration	The repitition of initial consonant or vowels sounds.	24
4341033520	Synecdoche	A part represents the whole.	25
4341033521	Metonomy	Something closely associated.	26
4341033522	Apostrophe	A direct and explicit address either to an absent person or nonhuman entity.	27
4341033523	Oxymoron	A rhetorical figure the juxtaposes two opposites.	28
4341033524	Anastrophe	A reversal of word order to make a point.	29
4341033525	Allusion	Reference to mythology.	30
4341033526	Denotation	The exact meaning of a word.	31
4341033527	Connotation	The implied meaning of a word.	32
4341033528	Conceit	An argument, a comparison.	33
4341033529	Tenor	The subject of any figure of speech.	34
4341033530	Vehicle	The comparison used to convey message.	35
4341033531	Aphorism	A brief statement of a general truth.	36
4341033532	Aesthetics	The study of the nature of and the response to beauty and art.	37
4341056021	Allegory	A literal work in which objects, persons, or events are equated with a meaning outside the work itself.	38
4341056022	Atmosphere	The general over-all feeling of a work.	39
4341056023	Analogy	A comparison of ideas or objects which are essentially different but are alike in 1 way.	40
4341056024	Assonance	The repitition in lines of verse of the same vowel.	41