AP Literature Flashcards

2764851115	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	0
2764851116	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	1
2764851117	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference	2
2764851118	Anaphora	is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis or the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition	3
2764851119	Anastrophe	the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.	4
2764851120	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	5
2764851121	Antimetabole	is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order	6
2764851122	Anti-hero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.	7
2764851123	Anthropomorphism	is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities.	8
2764851124	Aphorism	a pithy observation that contains a general truth	9
2764851125	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).	10
2764851126	Apposition	a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent	11
2764851127	Archetype	a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology	12
2764851128	Assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	13
2764851129	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	14
2764851130	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.	15
2764851131	Bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.	16
2764851132	Blank Verse	verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter.	17
2764851133	Bombastic	high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people.	18
2764851134	Cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	19
2764851135	Caesura	a pause near the middle of a line	20
2764851136	Caricature	the art or style of such exaggerated representation	21
2764851137	Catharsis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.	22
2764851138	Chiasmus	a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form;	23
2764851139	Colloquialism	a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.	24