AP Literature Flashcards

4830126737	Accent	Stress; a syllable given more stress	0
4830128059	Act	A major division of a dramatic work	1
4830129609	Allegory	A story or poem which character, settings, and events stand for the other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities	2
4830135534	Alliteration	Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words	3
4830138685	Allusion	Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, science, or another branch	4
4830148395	Ambiguity	Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and somethings conflicting, meanings in a work	5
4830151987	Anachronism	From the Greek, "misplaced in time", that which is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time	6
4830158625	Anadiplosis	Repeating the last words of a clause at the beginning of the next clause	7
4830161185	Analogy	Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	8
4830171257	Anapest	A metrical foot consisting of two I accented syllables followed by one accented syllable	9
4830175721	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row	10
4830178982	Anastrophe	Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence; fancy word for inversion	11
4830187075	Anecdote	Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something; often used to characterize an individual	12
4830195418	Antagonist	Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story	13
4830208081	Antecedent	That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers	14
4830212511	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than the reader had been led to expect; is frequently comic	15
4830219894	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order; in poetry, called chiasmus	16
4830225105	Antithesis	Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammical structure	17
4830248860	Antihero	Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes who may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples	18
4830258748	Anthropomorphism	Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (akin to personification)	19
4830263388	Aphorism	Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about	20
4854637011	Apollonian	In contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior	21
4854644900	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, to a place or thing, or personified abstract idea	22
4854653072	Apposition/appositive	Placing in immediately succeeding order two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first	23
4854663995	Approximate rhyme	Also know as slant rhyme, terms used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes	24
4962871495	archaism	deliberate use of old-fashioned words	25
4962873789	archetype	an original model or type after which other things are patterned; a character or personality found in every society	26
4962878990	aside	words spoken by a character tat are intended to be heard by the audience rather than other characters	27
4962882996	assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds	28
4962886763	asyndeton	omitting conjunctions and using commas to separate a series of words, emphasizing the parts equally	29