Ap Literature Vocab Pt.2 Flashcards

15033870135	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	0
15033874608	Itlaian sonnet	consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.	1
15033910506	Litote	A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement	2
15034584527	lyric poems	usually short poems that express the deep personal feelings of the writer	3
15034591532	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	4
15034639328	Metaphor	implies comparison between two unlike entities	5
15034650009	metaphysical poetry	highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression	6
15034655372	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	7
15034674290	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	8
15034677663	Monometer	one foot per line	9
15034684474	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	10
15034688812	Octave	8 line stanza	11
15034691400	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	12
15034709488	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	13
15034711312	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	14
15034713564	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	15
15034718223	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	16
15034720684	Pentameter	a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	17
15034723963	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	18
15034731391	Phonetic Incentives	A word whose sound suggests is meaning	19
15034734510	Quatrain	A four line stanza	20
15034739826	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	21
15034742696	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	22
15034745571	run-on line (enjambment)	a line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning	23
15034748489	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	24
15034750550	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet	25
15034753633	Similie	comparing two things using like or as	26
15034756243	slant rhyme	rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme	27
15034758793	Sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	28
15034762029	Speaker	the voice of the poem	29
15034765655	spondee (spondaic)	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	30
15034768909	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	31
15034801383	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	32
15034803947	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	33
15034806736	Tercet	3 line stanza	34
15034809355	Tetrameter	4 feet per line	35
15034812280	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	36
15034815334	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	37
15034817590	Trimeter	3 feet per line	38
15034828266	Trochee (trochaic)	a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.	39
15034831667	Villanelle	A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes	40
15034946663	Volta	the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem	41
15034946666	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	42