AP Literature Flashcards

2766678065	Asyndeton	The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	0
2766681152	Assonance	In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stresses syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	1
2766683677	Archetype	A recurrent symbol or motify in literature, art or mythology.	2
2766685775	Anthropomorphism	Is any attribution of human characteristics (assumed to belong to humans) to animals, non-living phenomena, material stats, objects or abstract concepts (such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities)	3
2766690714	Anti-hero	A central character in a story, movie or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes	4
2766694230	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	5
2766696628	Anastrophe	The inversion of the usual order of the words or clauses	6
2766698324	Allegory	A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	7
2766701249	Apostrophe	An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified)	8
2766706553	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth	9
2766714476	Antimetabole	Is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order	10
2766717197	Anaphora	Is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis or the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence to avoid repetition	11
2766723986	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference	12
2766725734	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	13
2766735064	Apposition	A relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent	14
2766778767	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of folk culture.	15
2766784022	Blank Verse	A verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter	16
2766784786	Bidungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	17
2766786507	Bombastic	High-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people	18
2766788268	Catharsis	The process of releasing and thereby providing relief form, strong or repressed emotions	19
2766789375	Chiasmus	A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order in the same or modified form	20
2766792239	Colloquialism	A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar concepts	21
2766793432	Caricature	The art or style of such exaggerated representation	22
2766794438	Caesura	A pause near the middle of a line	23
2766795813	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	24