AP Literature Terms Flashcards

4253110240	anaphora	deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses or paragraphs	0
4253115351	anecdote	a very brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something	1
4253120208	antithesis	a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses	2
4253130807	aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	3
4253135923	assonance	the repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds	4
4253139661	connotation	the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning	5
4253153166	denotation	literal meaning of a word	6
4253153167	anachronism	event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period	7
4253165129	anadiplosis	last words of phrase repeated at the beginning of the next phrase	8
4253169545	antimetabole	switching the order of a phrase from the beginning of the phrase to the end	9
4253178799	enjambment	continuation of a sentence over a line break (no punctuation)	10
4253185670	end stop	grammatical pause at the end of a line (punctuation)	11
4253189928	cinquain	a 5-line poem that does not rhyme	12
4253191423	end rhyme	when two lines of poetry rhyme	13
4253194019	slant rhyme	when words almost rhyme in poetry	14
4253198274	trochee	a meter has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable ( / U )	15
4253202042	anapest	a meter has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable ( U U / )	16
4253205527	soliloquy	a speech delivered while a character is alone on stage	17
4253208536	free verse	poetry that does not have a regular rhyme or meter	18
4253217342	the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet	ABABCDCDEFEFGG	19
4253218739	sestina	a fixed verse consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi	20
4253222638	villanelle	this is a nineteen line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain; very forced rhyme scheme	21
4253228631	Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet	a type of sonnet with one octet and one sestet; rhyme scheme usually: ABBABBACDCDCD	22
4253233394	epistrophe	last words of a phrase repeated at the end of following phrases	23
4253235555	parenthesis	a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or after thought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, usually marked off by punctuation	24
4253239485	anastrophe	the inversion of the usual word order of words or clauses	25
4253241732	apposition	the placement side-by-side of two coordinate elements, the second of which serves to identify or rename the first	26
4253245147	chiasmus	a specific inversion of word order; involves taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out to create a "criss-cross" pattern	27
4253253986	epanalepsis	repeating a word from the beginning of a clause at the end of the clause	28
4253264575	synechdoche	piece represents whole	29
4253270085	metonymy	a trope that substitutes an associated word for one that is meant	30
4253273120	periphrasis	a trope in which one substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun	31
4253279031	elegy	a poem of serious reflection for the dead	32
4253280486	caesure	a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, greater than a normal pause	33
4253291337	eye rhyme	rhyme that appear correct by spelling but is actually slant rhyme	34
4253294201	litotes	a deliberate understatement for emphasis	35
4253295125	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter and the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays	36
4253297586	masculine rhyme	rhyme that falls on the stressed concluding syllables of rhymed words	37
4253306542	terza rim	a three line stanza rhymed	38