AP Literature Terms Flashcards

4788643498	alliteration	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.	0
4788643499	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.	1
4788643500	apostrophe	a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent.	2
4788643501	assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	3
4788643502	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	4
4788643503	caesura	a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line	5
4788643504	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	6
4788643505	couplet	a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse	7
4788643506	heroic couplet	a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style	8
4788643507	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	9
4788643508	syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language	10
4788643509	elegy	a mournful poem	11
4788643510	epigram	a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation	12
4788643511	ode	a lyric poem with complex stanza forms	13
4788643512	villanelle	intricately patterned poem, stanzas of 13 lines last stanza 4 lines, 1st + 3rd = form refrain, refrains repealed and poem ends there are only two rhymes in the whole poem	14
4788643513	enjambment	the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next	15
4788643514	metaphor	a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity	16
4788643515	allegory	an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances	17
4788643516	simile	a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')	18
4788643517	symbolism	a device in literature where an object represents an idea.	19
4788643518	personification	representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature, the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.	20
4788643519	hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	21
4788643520	understatement	the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.	22
4788643521	imagery	The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience	23
4788643522	irony	incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs	24
4788643523	dramatic irony	occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening	25
4788643524	situational irony	occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected	26
4788643525	sarcasm	harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony	27
4788643526	satire	form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly	28
4788643527	parody	humorous or satirical mimicry	29
4788643528	meter	a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry	30
4788643529	rhythm	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; the beat of a poem	31
4788643530	poetic foot	a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it.	32
4788643531	iamb	a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables	33
4788643532	dactyl	a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables	34
4788643533	trochee	a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables	35
4788643534	anapest	a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables	36
4788643535	pyrrhic	of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables	37
4788643536	pyrrhic victory	a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses, a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses	38
4788643537	oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')	39
4788643538	paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	40
4788643539	metonymy	substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads')	41
4788643540	synecdoche	Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear.	42
4788643541	tone	manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude toward a speech	43
4788643542	mood	the overall emotion created by a work of literature	44