AP Literature Flashcards

6444202333	active voice	any sentence with an active verb. expresses more energy than passive voice. subject before verb.	0
6444202334	allegory	extended narrative (in poetry or prose) in which the characters and actions (sometimes setting) aew contrived to make sense on the literal level and at the same time signify a second, correlated order of characters, concepts, and events. in other words, allegory carries a second, deeper meaning, as well as its surface story.	1
6444202335	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	2
6444202336	Allusion	an indirect reference	3
6444202337	analogy	signifies a comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas	4
6444202338	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	5
6444202339	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	6
6444202340	Apostrophe	A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present	7
6444202341	Assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6444202342	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	9
6444202343	Caesura	a pause near the middle of a line	10
6444202344	carpe diem	seize the day	11
6444202345	Connotation	an implied meaning of a word	12
6444202346	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	13
6444202347	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	14
6444202348	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	15
6444202349	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.	16
6444202350	Diction	word choice	17
6444202351	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	18
6444202352	Ellipses	...	19
6444202353	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	20
6444202354	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	21
6444202355	foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	22
6444202356	foot	combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	23
6444202357	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	24
6444202358	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	25
6444202359	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	26
6444202360	irony	the contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs	27
6444202361	jargon	nonsensical talk; specialized language	28
6444202362	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	29
6444202363	lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	30
6444202364	Malapropism	an obvious misuse of a word caused by confusion with a word of similar sound	31
6444202365	metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	32
6444202366	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	33
6444202367	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	34
6444202368	metric line	line named according to number of feet composing it	35
6444202369	ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	36
6444202370	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	37
6444202371	paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	38
6444202372	Parallelism	Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other	39
6444202373	panegyric	an expression of praise	40
6444202374	passive voice	used when something happens to someone	41
6444202375	pastoral	relating to a simple country way of life	42
6444202376	Personification	giving human qualities to non-human things	43
6444202377	ploce	repeating a word within the same line or clause	44
6444202378	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	45
6444202379	pun	A play on words	46
6444202380	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	47
6444202381	repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	48
6444202382	rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	49
6444202302	rhythm	A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	50
6444202303	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	51
6444202304	shift	Change in tone, mood, or perspective	52
6444202305	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	53
6444202306	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	54
6444202307	sonnet	A 14 line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter	55
6444202308	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	56
6444202309	symbol	Something that stands for or represents something else	57
6444202310	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	58
6444202311	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	59
6444202312	verse	A single line of poetry	60
6541384801	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	61
6599111075	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	62
6599111076	dramatic irony	the contrast between what a character expects and what the audience knows is true	63