AP Literature Flashcards

4196457003	Anthithesis	a rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of grammatical arrangement of words clause or sentences example) they promised freedom but gave slavery	0
4196464584	Aphorism	a shorty pith statement of generally accepted truth of sentiment Example all people should strive to learn before they die what they are running ffrom and to and why	1
4196471980	Apollian	In constrast to dionysian it reeres to most noble and golike qualities of human nature	2
4196474613	Apostrephe	a rhetorical device in which a speaker a dresses a person who is not present	3
4196476967	Archetyype	abstract or ideal conception	4
4196481575	Assonance	the repition of two or more vowwel sounds, he is as madd as a hatter	5
4196486601	ballad	a narative verse or poem that tells a story through singing or recitiation	6
4196497464	bard	a poet in olden times performer who told herioc stories with musical encompiant	7
4196505738	bathos	overdone sentimentaity	8
4196507087	bibliography	lit of works cited	9
4196508756	bildungroman	a german word referring to a novel structure as a series of events that hero travels in quest of a goal.	10
4196513055	Blank verse	poetry written in iambic pentameter	11
4196515443	bombast	inflated pretentious language	12
4196517135	burlesque	a work literate mnt to ridiicual a subjet a grotesque imitation	13
4196523382	cacophony	grating innharmonious sounds	14
4196525468	ceasura	q pase somewhere in the middle of a verse often marked by by punction the blood dimmed tide is looseed, and everywhere	15
4196631360	canon	he works consider most important in the national literature or period	16