AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

11661123063	epic	long story poem about the adventures of a national hero	0
11661128710	oxymoron	two words that are opposite, put together "jumbo shrimp"	1
11661134828	courtly love	poems written by and to members of the court to woo them to get them to have sex	2
11661194491	meter	pattern of repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry	3
11661203044	metonymy	a place or an object that represents the whole e.g "the crown said..."	4
11661225765	synedoche	metonymy with a body part "talk to the hand"	5
11661225766	pastoral	type of poetry involving shepherds and young women	6
11661225767	bucholic	like a pastoral but with cows and usually a wealthy baron	7
11661309848	tercet	3 lined stanza	8
11661312544	quatrain	a 4 lined stanza	9
11661315191	quintain	a 5 lined stanza	10
11661320614	sextet	a 6 lined stanza	11
11661320615	septet	a 7 lined stanza	12
11661324186	octave	a 8 lined stanza	13
11661329475	masculine rhyme	cat, hat, bat (only one syllable)	14
11661331816	feminine rhyme	rhyming of 2 or more syllables (ocean, lotion)	15
11661346735	slant rhyme	an off rhyme, distances from pattern	16
11661351445	apostrophe	a person is talking to an object	17
11661356284	tragic flaw	a flaw that leads to the character's death	18
11661379828	verbal irony	something is said with a meaning different than what is said	19
11661387425	situational irony	when the situation is different that the expectation	20
11661392213	dramatic irony	when audience knows something that the character does not	21
11661397601	soliloquy	speech given by character to audience about his/her feelings	22
11661401716	dramatic monologue	long speech in a poem or a play given usually containing ploy for other characters	23
11661405914	dramatic monologue	long speech in a poem or a play given usually containing plot for other characters	24
11661415367	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	25
11661420337	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds	26
11661427060	cacophony	harsh, discordant sounds produced through use of onomatopoeia or consonance	27
11661431919	euphony	soft, harmonious sounds produced through the use of assonance or onomatopoeia	28
11661450137	litote	understatement	29
11661535721	enjambment	the continuation of one line of poetry onto another line without end punctuation	30
11661540508	epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.	31
11661564377	alliteration	the repetition of the first syllable of a sound	32
11661208993	synedoche		33