AP Literature Flashcards

3746593904	Allegory	A story with a hidden meaning or moral	0
3746593905	Alliteration	Repetition of the first sound of each word	1
3746593906	Allusion	Reference to a historical, religious, or cultural work	2
3746593907	Anecdote	Cute little story	3
3746593908	Antithesis	Direct opposite of something	4
3746593909	Apostrophe	Talking to someone or something that is not there	5
3746593910	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sound in words or phrases	6
3746593911	Ballad	Narrated poem with a story	7
3746593912	Blank verse	A poem that has structured meter but doesn't rhyme	8
3746593913	Caesura	A pause in the middle of the line or verse	9
3746593914	Conceit	Extended metaphor with complex logic	10
3746593915	Consonance	The repetition of the same consonant sound	11
3746593916	Couplet	A pair of lines	12
3746593917	Diction	Word choice	13
3746593918	Elegy	A poem written about death	14
3746593919	Enjambment	The same thought continuing onto the next line	15
3746593920	Exposition	Info at the beginning of a work that gives you background and explanation	16
3746593921	Eye rhyme	Words that look like they rhyme, but don't	17
3746593922	Free verse	A poem that does not have a structured meter or rhyming scheme	18
3746593923	Haiku	A five lined unrhymed poem with a 5-7-5 pattern in syllables	19
3746593924	Hyperbole	An exaggeration not meant to be taken literally	20
3746593925	Iambic pentameter	A certain rhythm in poetry that consists of five feet to a line, each feet with two beats	21
3746593926	Imagery	Visually descriptive language that focuses on the five senses	22
3746593927	Juxtaposition	Two things together that create a contrasting effect	23
3746593928	Limerick	A poem consisting of five lines, three long lines and two short	24
3746593929	Litotes	A phrase ironically written with a double negative	25
3746593930	Lyric	Expressing the writers emotions	26
3746593931	Metaphor	Comparison without like or as	27
3746593932	Meter	The basic rhythmic structure of a verse	28
3746593933	Metonymy	Using the name of a thing for something it's related to	29
3746593934	Ode	A poem the expresses strong love for something or someone	30
3746593935	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates a sound	31
3746593936	Oxymoron	Two contradictory words used together	32
3746593937	Paradox	A statement that seems to be self contradictory but that when investigated may prove to be true	33
3746593938	Personification	Giving lifelikecharacteristics to nonliving things	34
3746593939	Prosody	The study of the metrical quality of a verse	35
3746593940	Quatrain	Stanza of poetry consisting of four lines	36
3746593941	Refrain	A phrase or verse repeated throughout the poem	37
3746593942	Requiem	An act or token of remembrance	38
3746593943	Scansion	The analysis of the meter of the verse	39
3746593944	Simile	Comparison using like or as	40
3746593945	Soliloquy	One person speaking one's thoughts to them self or to the audience	41
3746593946	Sonnet	A 14 line poem with a formal rhyming scheme, often written in iambic pentameter	42
3746593947	Stanza	A paragraph in poetry	43
3746593948	Synesthesia	A stimulus being applied to another sense	44
3746593949	Synecdoche	A metaphor in which a part of something represents the whole	45
3746593950	Syntax	Sentence structure	46
3746593951	Trope	Any figure of speech	47
3746593952	Verse	A stanza or section in poetry	48
3746593953	Villanelle	Nineteen line poem consisting of three tercets and one quatrain	49