AP Literature Flashcards

5842384558	allegory	a short moral story (hidden meaning)	0
5842444924	allusion	an indirect reference to something. ex: Hamlet alluded to Greek myths	1
5842500933	conceit	an extended metaphor	2
5842503854	catastrophe	a change of fortune	3
5842517117	caesura	break/pause in middle of verse line	4
5842523457	blank verse	unrhymed verse (usually in pentameter)	5
5842534877	ballad	a narrative poem of popular orgin	6
5842546360	aside	a short speech delivered to audience or another character that others on stage can't hear	7
5842611152	apostrophe	addressing something non-human as if it were human	8
5842661552	consonance	repetition of words with vowel sounds	9
5842664338	assonance	repetition of words with constant sounds	10
5842693755	anaphora	repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences	11
5842738142	connotation	the direct meaning of a word/expression	12
5842742720	denotation	an idea that is applied or suggested	13
5842753083	couplet	a stanza consisting of 2 successive lines of verse	14
5842783225	chorus	dictates what the audience thinks	15
5843261415	diction	a writers/speakers choice of words	16
5843286427	elegy	a mournful poem	17
5843334908	end stop	verse with rhetoric pause at the end of each line	18
5843338554	enjambment	continuation from one line of verse into another	19
5843343559	exposition	introduces background events to audience	20
5843347116	foil	a character whose attitude sharply contrasts with another	21
5843506190	free verse	poem without rhyme or regular meter	22
5843511098	heroic couplet	couplet w/ 2 rhymed lines in iambic pentameter written in elevated style	23
5843520344	hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	24
5843535409	lyric	poem that expresses emotion	25
5843716691	masculine rhyme	a rhyme of final stressed syllables	26
5843718918	meter	pattern of stressed and unstressed	27
5843805456	metonymy	referring to something by using the name of something associated with it	28
5843811119	monologue	speech given by one person	29
5843812678	mood	a characteristic state of feeling	30
5843814474	ode	a long lyrical poem typically serious	31
5843819578	parable	simple story with a moral lesson	32
5844054874	petrachan sonnet	Italian 14 line poem w/ an octave	33
5844061798	prose	ordinary writing w/o rhyme or meter	34
5844083334	quatrain	a stanza of 4 lines	35
5844088061	refrain	regularly repeated line/group of lines in a poem/song	36
5844097511	rhythm	long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables	37
5844125617	shakespearean sonnet	3 quatrains and couplet in iambic pentameter	38
5844146900	soliloquy	speech given by a character alone in space	39
5844150003	symbol	something visible that represents something invisible	40
5844158080	synecdoche	using the name of a part for that whole or the whole for the part	41
5844160487	syntax	sentence structure	42
5844162824	tragedy	work where protagonist is faced w/ significant struggle that ends in destruction	43
5844167416	catastrophe	a change of fortune	44
5844190636	resolution	caused by preceding events but does not lead to other incidents	45
5844204508	incentive moment	starts cause and effect chain	46
5844205788	tragic hero	character of high repute who suffers a fall from glory due to tragic flaw	47
5844215338	arête	virtue/pursuit of excellence	48
5844216843	koros	excessive pride and self reliance	49
5844220288	hubris	excessive self pride	50
5844223487	ate	disaster resulting from recklessness;madness	51
5844226343	catharsis	purification or purging of emotions	52
5844231578	moria	fate	53
5844233224	hamartia	tragic flaw	54
5844238769	verse	a piece of poetry	55
5844242217	volta	shift/change of dramatic change in a poem	56