8142890532 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | ![]() | 0 |
8142890533 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 1 | |
8142890534 | Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | ![]() | 2 |
8142890535 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | ![]() | 3 |
8142890536 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | ![]() | 4 |
8142890537 | Euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | ![]() | 5 |
8142890538 | Internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry | ![]() | 6 |
8142890539 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | ![]() | 7 |
8142890540 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | ![]() | 8 |
8142890541 | Monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. | ![]() | 9 |
8142890542 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | ![]() | 10 |
8142890543 | Puns | Imagery - Play on words, double meaning. | ![]() | 11 |
8142890544 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | ![]() | 12 |
8142890545 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | ![]() | 13 |
8142890546 | Tragic hero | A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise | ![]() | 14 |
8142890547 | Verbal Irony | The contrast between what is said and what is actually meant. | ![]() | 15 |
8142890548 | Verse | Metrical language; the opposite of prose | ![]() | 16 |
8142938867 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry | ![]() | 17 |
8344336700 | archetype | an original model on which something is patterned | ![]() | 18 |
8344362459 | Realism | 19th century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is | ![]() | 19 |
8344390284 | hero's journey | Archetype that shows a heroes growth into greatness a set of steps taken by the protagonist leads him to the fullfillment of a quest | ![]() | 20 |
8344402304 | monomyth | the hero's journey archetype that appears in all cultures | ![]() | 21 |
8344423005 | reversal | the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction | ![]() | 22 |
8344458353 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | ![]() | 23 |
8344469990 | motif | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | ![]() | 24 |
AP Literary Terms 1 Flashcards
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