AP Literature Flashcards

4342628559	Allegory	A story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about life, often have a strong moral or lesson.	0
4342631170	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	1
4342633972	Allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.	2
4342635890	Analogy	A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based	3
4342640618	Anaphora	A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.	4
4342647827	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	5
4342649634	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	6
4342650941	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	7
4342652770	Aphorism	A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment .	8
4342656080	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	9
4342659408	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions. Ex: "Speed up the film Montag, quick. Click, pic, look, eye, now, flick, here, there..." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)	10