AP Literature Midterm Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 12255744770 | stanza | a group of lines in a poem, a break within a poem | 0 | |
| 12255745790 | imagery | descriptions that appeal to the senses | 1 | |
| 12255746756 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 12255747793 | malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | 3 | |
| 12255748584 | non sequiter | "it does not follow" when one comment isn't logically related to another | 4 | |
| 12255752055 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction yet make sense | 5 | |
| 12255754901 | ellipses | the periods used to abbreviate a quotation by taking out unnecessary words and replacing them with periods | 6 | |
| 12255758950 | lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 7 | |
| 12255760097 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 8 | |
| 12255762743 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 9 | |
| 12255762744 | octave | 8 lines of a poem that have been set apart through stanzas | 10 | |
| 12255763895 | meter | the rhythmic structure used systematically for each line of a poem, concerning the "bounce" of the words in the line and the syllables that are stressed or unstressed (line by line) | 11 | |
| 12255770622 | rhyming pattern | the rhyming structure of a poem, referring only to the ends of each line and how they correlate (ABAB, ABBA) | 12 | |
| 12255772455 | enjambment | a line of a poem taht continues to the next line, not broken by punctuation of any kind | 13 | |
| 12255774357 | end-stopped line | when a line ends or is punctuated at its end (only staying on one line) | 14 | |
| 12255775688 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told (first, second, or third) | 15 | |
| 12255780511 | paradox | a contradictory statement used to convey a truth that can only be gained when juxtaposing opposites (absolute contradiction) | 16 | |
| 12255784175 | metaphor | a comparison in which one this is called another thing | 17 | |
| 12255788214 | simile | a comparison in which two things are compared by saying 'like' or 'as' | 18 | |
| 12255791392 | analogy | a direct comparison of two different things, usually used to explain something complicated in simpler terms | 19 | |
| 12255794699 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else, usually something intangible | 20 | |
| 12255796881 | tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject | 21 |