AP English Literature Literary Terms

200299173	Apostrophe	the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically
200299174	Blank Verse	any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter
200299175	Caesura	a natural pause or break
200299176	Archetype	the usage of any object or situation as it was originally made
200299177	Conceit	an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.
200299178	Enjambent	the breaking of a syntactic unit by the end of a line between two verses.
200299179	Euphemism	the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener.
200299180	Epigram	brief, clever, and usually memorable statement.
200299181	Epiphany	term for the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene.
200299182	Inversion	reordering the words from their usual order in order to provide literary value
200299183	Masculine Rhyme	a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words
200299184	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme in which the stress is on the the second from the last syllable of the words
200299185	Metonymy	a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
200299186	Paradox	a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition
200299187	Pathetic Fallacy	the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.
200299188	Synecdoche	figure of speech where part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or a whole is used to refer to part of it.