AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5847126085	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	0
5847131119	Allusion	A reference to history or literature, including the Bible and mythology	1
5847134923	Anachronism	Persons, objects, or events placed in the wrong time period	2
5847141300	Analogy	A comparison between two things to show how they are alike	3
5847152865	Anaphora	Repetition of the same word(s) or phrase throughout all or part of a work for emphasis	4
5851713993	Apostrophe	A writer or character addressing a person or an idea, or something which cannot respond.	5
5851717751	Assonance	The repetition of similar vowel sounds	6
5851721445	Cacophony	Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds	7
5851729547	Caesura	A pause or a break in a line of poetry	8
5851737712	Catalogue	A list	9
5851739605	Cliché	An expression that has lost its freshness because of too much repetition	10
5851745635	Conceit	A shocking comparison between two dissimilar things. usually a metaphor or a simile	11
5851752078	Consonance	The repetition of final consonant	12
5851760505	Euphony	Pleasing sounds; opposite of cacophony	13
5851765952	Hyperbole	Exaggeration used for effect or for humor	14
5851768913	Verbal Irony	Saying the opposite of what is being meant	15
5851771743	Dramatic Irony	Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character doesn't know, so that the words or actions have meaning about which a character is unaware.	16
5851773865	Situational Irony	When what actually happens is different from what is expected to happen	17
5851787603	Kenning	A word or compound word substituted as a synonym for a noun	18
5851798413	Metaphor/ Direct stated Metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things without using the words "Like, as, than, seems, or resembles"	19
5851818250	Implied Metaphor	The two terms of the comparison are not directly stated	20
5851820312	Dead Metaphor	A metaphor used so often that it has lost its freshness and intensity	21
5851820313	Mixed Metaphor	A metaphor which fails because its two parts are incompatible	22
5851834335	Metonymy	A word or words which substitute something closely related for something,someone,or some place with which it is identified; some sources consider it synonymous with synecdoche	23
5851976099	Onomatopoeia	Words which suggest or sound like their meanings	24
5851976100	Oxymoron	A combination of words which are apparently contradictory	25
5851977267	Paradox	A statement which seems contradictory but is actually true	26
5851977268	Pathetic Fallacy	A form of personification in which nature is given human emotions, especially to the degree that it becomes illogical or even absurd for nature to have such emotions.	27
5851979211	Personification	Giving human traits to something non-human	28
5851979212	Simile	A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like, as, than, seems or resembles"	29
5851980254	Synecdoche	Use of a part to represent the whole; some sources consider it synonymous with metonymy	30
5851982239	Trope	A figure of speech involving a "turn" or change of sense- the use of a word in a sense other than the literal; includes metaphor, simile, irony and paradox.	31
5852084520	Understatement	A statement that says less than is meant; deliberately down- playing something for the purpose of emphasis, humor or irony.	32