AP English 4: Literature & Composition Flashcards

14879279531	Allegory	A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one Ex: Tortoise and the Hare	0
14879279532	Anecdote	A short and sometimes amusing story that is told to make a point.	1
14879279533	Archetype	A recurrent design in a wide range of literature. Ex: a woman is the downfall of a main male character	2
14879279534	Blank verse	The verse form that most resembles common speech	3
14879279535	Caesura	A pause in a line of verse, indicating natural speech patterns	4
14879279536	Colloquial	Ordinary and informal language Ex: gotta, woulda	5
14879279537	Concrete language	Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places Ex:House, Window, apple	6
14884819784	Connotation	The ideas and emotions associated with a word Ex: Guest/ Intruder	7
14884819785	Iambic	A metrical foot in poetry that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	8
14884819786	Meter	The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	9
14884819787	Parody	An exaggerated imitation of a unusually more serious work for humorous purposes	10
14884819788	Stream of Consciousness	A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow.	11
14884819789	Syntax	The rules that determine how words combine into phrases and sentences	12