AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 4323185264 | Allegory | a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. | 0 | |
| 4323186768 | Alliteration | a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 1 | |
| 4323186769 | Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
| 4323187653 | Ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 3 | |
| 4323187654 | Anachronism | an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece | 4 | |
| 4323191733 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. | 5 | |
| 4323192459 | Anapest | a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem stressed (/) stressed(/) unstressed (U) | 6 | |
| 4323192460 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 7 | |
| 4323193537 | Antagonist | a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character. | 8 | |
| 4323193538 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 9 | |
| 4323193539 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 10 | |
| 4323195012 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation that detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 11 | |
| 4323195013 | Archetype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. | 12 | |
| 4323196007 | Aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. | 13 | |
| 4323196008 | Assonance | when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. | 14 | |
| 4323201148 | Ballad | a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme (A-B-A-B) (C-D-C-D) (E-F-E-F) (G-H-G-H) (I-I) | 15 | |
| 4323201149 | Bildungsroman | literary device that focuses on the coming-of-age story of the main character | 16 | |
| 4323202096 | Caesura | a break between words within a metrical foot. | 17 | |
| 4323202899 | Catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress. | 18 | |
| 4323202900 | Climax | a structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis. | 19 | |
| 4323203884 | Closed Form | A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme | 20 | |
| 4323203885 | Conceit | an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. | 21 |