AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6301727862	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	0
6301763551	Caesura	A pause in the middle of a line	1
6301769094	Catharsis	The release of emotions through art (emotional cleansing, as in a tragedy)	2
6301779657	Connotation	Secondary or implied meaning of a word	3
6301784711	Denotation	The literal meaning of he word	4
6301788553	Denouement	Final outcome of the story	5
6301793132	Deus ex machina	Resolution of the plot by chance or coincidence	6
6301804932	Feminine rhyme	Lines rhymed by their two final syllables	7
6301810946	Hamartia	Tragic flaw that causes a hero's downfall	8
6301825069	Masculine rhyme	A line ending on the final stressed syllable	9
6301831484	Apostrophe	Direct address to reader	10
6301840354	Scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	11
6301847708	Synecdoche	A figure of speech where the part represents the whole or vice versa	12
6301857331	Synesthesia	Describing one kind of sensation with another (sweet sound, loud color)	13
6301862885	Tone	Attitude the author takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	14
6301871070	Epistrophe	A repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses	15
6301877935	Metonymy	The substitution of an object for that of the thing meant (white house for government, etc. )	16
6301893265	Chiasmus	A reversal in word order of words in two otherwise parallel sentences	17
6301899920	Parallelism	The use of similar grammatical functions or word order in multiple sentences	18
6301908331	Polysyndeton	The repetition of conjunctions in a sentence	19
6301909874	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions in a sentence	20
6301915116	Archetype	A symbol found in many cultures	21