AP Literature and Composition Summer Terms Flashcards
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| 14745417471 | Anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 0 | |
| 14745417472 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas called quatrains | 1 | |
| 14745417473 | Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 2 | |
| 14745417474 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education (coming of age) | 3 | |
| 14745417475 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 4 | |
| 14745417476 | Conceit | extended metaphor | 5 | |
| 14745417477 | Convention | A cliche, device, or trope that acts as a defining feature of a genre | 6 | |
| 14745417478 | Dactyl | one stressed, two unstressed | 7 | |
| 14745417479 | Didactic | intended to teach | 8 | |
| 14745417480 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 9 | |
| 14745417481 | Explication | The interpretation or analysis of a text. | 10 | |
| 14745417482 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 11 | |
| 14745417483 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 12 | |
| 14745417484 | Hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | 13 | |
| 14745417485 | Iamb | unstressed, stressed | 14 | |
| 14745417486 | Leitmotif | a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation. | 15 | |
| 14745417487 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 16 | |
| 14745417488 | metonymy/synecdoche | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it/a substitution of a part for a whole | 17 | |
| 14745417489 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 18 | |
| 14745417490 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 19 | |
| 14745417491 | Prosody | the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry | 20 | |
| 14745417492 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 21 | |
| 14745417493 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 22 | |
| 14745417494 | Sestet | six line stanza | 23 | |
| 14745417495 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 24 | |
| 14745417496 | Spondee | stressed, stressed | 25 | |
| 14745417497 | Trochee | stressed, unstressed | 26 | |
| 14745417498 | pastoral | Glorifying country life | 27 | |
| 14745417499 | Villanelle | A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes | 28 |