AP Literature Poetry Terms 3 Flashcards

7738552836	Mood	an atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected.	0
7738566068	Onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sounds echo their sense.	1
7738571882	Oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	2
7738596363	Paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals the kind of truth.	3
7738606179	Parallel Structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.	4
7738616233	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.	5
7738633842	Quatrain	a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.	6
7738641805	Refrain	a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.	7
7738659947	Rhetorical Question	a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.	8
7738681586	Rhythm	a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.	9
7738688967	Simile	a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.	10
7738706058	Situational Irony	takes place when there is a discrepancy between is expected to happen or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.	11
7738722744	Soliloquy	a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage.	12
7738739204	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.	13
7738746196	Theme	the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.	14
7738752336	Tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.	15
7738771911	Verbal Irony	occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else.	16