AP Literature Flashcards
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| 2526190054 | abstract | complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil | 0 | |
| 2526191268 | academic | dry and theoretical writing | 1 | |
| 2526195528 | accent | the stressed portion of a word | 2 | |
| 2526197616 | aesthetic | appealing to the senses | 3 | |
| 2526200105 | allegory | story with symbolic meaning | 4 | |
| 2526204444 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | 5 | |
| 2526205800 | allusion | reference to another work or famous figure | 6 | |
| 2526207090 | anachronism | misplaced in time | 7 | |
| 2526208143 | analogy | comparison | 8 | |
| 2526208144 | anecdote | short narrative | 9 | |
| 2526209197 | antecedent | word, phrase or clause a pronoun refers to or replaces | 10 | |
| 2526210269 | anthropomorphism | when inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior or motivation | 11 | |
| 2526214270 | anticlimax | when an action produces far smaller results than had been expected | 12 | |
| 2526215660 | antihero | protagonist who is markedly unheroic, morally weak, cowardly, dishonest etc. | 13 | |
| 2526222135 | aphorism | a short and witty saying | 14 | |
| 2526223395 | apostrophe | an address to someone n | 15 |