AP Lit Midterm Flashcards
Shakespearean (English) Sonnet
Three quatrains followed by a couplet. The quatrains express related ideas or examples while the couplet sums up the poet’s conclusion or message.
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
A 14 line poem that has a specific structure and rhyme scheme
Eulogy
A formal statement of commendation; high praise
Parable
A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
Sestina
A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet
Ode
A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. “the alliteration of “sweet birds sang””
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a sotry in short stanzas
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements of claims not meant to be taken literally.
Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in a close proximity
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Imperatives
commands
Admonition
gentle warning; friendly reproof
Allege
to assert without proof or confirmation
Ambivalent
having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
bountiful
(adj.) giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly
Caustic
(adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic
Concession
Something given up or yielded
Contemplative
studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
Incursion
sudden invasion
ironic
suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens; given to irony, sarcastic
Laconic
Using few words
Laudatory
expressing praise
magnanimous
generous
Marred
damaged; disfigured
Prosperity
wealth, success
Profundity
great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning
Reminiscence
memory or act of recalling the past
Remorseful
filled with sorrow or guilt
Rhetorical
Relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression
Sardonic
Grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic
Skepticism
An attitude of doubt
Speculative
not based on fact or investigation
Sublime
of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe
Surreptitious
stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
Unbridled
uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
Understated
Presented or expressed in a subtle and effective way
Literary terms to use on Q3
Mood, motif, narrative, ode, narrator, parable, personification, point of view, rhetorical stance,
Foils in Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov and Razumihin, Raskolnikov and and Sonya, and Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov. Their contrasts emphasize Raskolnikov’s confusion and delusion, eventually leading him to emotional redemption.
Foils in Hamlet
Hamlet and Laertes, Hamlet and Fortinbras, Hamlet and Ophelia. They highlight Hamlet’s indecisiveness and responses to tragedy.
Literary devices in Hamlet
Soliloquy, metaphor, dramatic and verbal irony, allusion
Literary devices in Crime and Punishment
Psychological realism, stream of consciousness, symbolism, foreshadowing, irony, juxtaposition
