AP Literature Flashcards

2487092923	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	0
2487094954	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	1
2487103435	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)	2
2487108067	asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	3
2487112806	polysyndeton	a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed	4
2487117506	refrain	a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end	5
2487123881	overture	an introductory section or part, as of a poem; a prelude.	6
2487132311	coda	the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure	7
2487141534	epithets	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person	8
2487148891	chiasmus	a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical construction, or concepts are repeated in reverse order in the same modified form	9
2487153590	caesura	a break between word within a metrical foot	10
2487158527	cumulative sentence	begins with a main clause followed by phrases or clauses that modify the main clause	11
2487161378	compound-complex sentence	a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent	12
2487166939	periodic sentence	a stylistic device, one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase	13
2487191077	consonance	the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody)	14
2487196915	assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	15
2487203539	conceit	an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem	16
2487207655	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 the folk culture	17
2487211469	ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter	18
2487211470	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	19
2487212655	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain	20
2487234815	epigram		21
2487234816	aphorism		22
2487236051	paradox		23
2487237331	oxymoron		24
2487244427	synesthesia		25
2487246566	acrimony		26
2487252419	idyll	a short description of a picturesque in rustic life	27
2487258337	masculine rhyme		28
2487260355	anachronism		29
2487261647	sonnet		30
2487261648	lyric		31
2487261649	admonition		32
2487264550	a Petrarchan sonnet		33
2487264605	a pastoral		34
2487267301	a Shakespearean sonnet		35
2487269356	slant rhye		36
2487270411	iambic pentameter		37
2487294926	lampoon		38