AP Literature Flashcards

8855034739	Efficacy	the ability to produce a desired or intended result	0
8855086534	Terza Rima	An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc	1
8855106851	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	2
8855990349	Extended Metaphor	an author's exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story	3
8856000789	Injurious	causing or likely to cause damage or harm	4
8856009760	Ballad Meter	the meter common in English ballads consisting chiefly of iambic lines of 7 accents each arranged in rhymed pairs and usually printed as the 4-line ballad stanza	5
8856022248	Symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract	6
8856030901	Flippant	not showing a serious or respectful attitude	7
8856038533	Congenital	having a particular trait from birth or by firmly established habit	8
8856045410	Primeval	based on primitive instinct; raw and elementary	9
8856055226	Epigrammatic	of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing	10
8856066082	Heroic Couplet	a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope	11
8856074070	Countenance	a person's face or facial expression	12
8856106512	Free Verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter	13
8856113212	Apostrophe	an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person	14
8856121383	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	15
8856132316	Embodiment	the representation or expression of something in a tangible or visible form	16
8856139625	Impervious	unable to be affected by	17
8856149580	Rhetorical devices	a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective	18
8856165514	Blank Verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter	19