AP literature terms Flashcards

6662269424	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6662269425	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6662269426	allusion	indirect of passing reference to a piece of literary or historical significance	2
6662269427	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6662269429	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	4
6662269430	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	5
6662269431	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	6
6662269432	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	7
6662269433	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	8
6662269434	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	9
6662269435	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	10
6662269436	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	11
6662269443	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	12
6662269445	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	13
6662269446	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	14
6662269447	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	15
6662269448	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	16
6662269449	denouement	final outcome of the story	17
6662269450	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	18
6662269451	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	19
6662269453	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	20
6662269455	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	21
6662269458	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	22
6662269459	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	23
6662269462	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	24
6662269465	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	25
6662269467	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	26
6662269468	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	27
6662269471	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	28
6662269472	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	29
6662269473	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	30
6662269474	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	31
6662269475	situational irony	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	32
6662269477	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	33
6662269478	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	34
6662269480	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	35
6662269481	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	36
6662269484	octave	8 line stanza	37
6662269485	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	38
6662269486	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	39
6662269487	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	40
6662269488	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	41
6662269492	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	42
6662269493	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	43
6662269494	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	44
6662269495	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	45
6662269496	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	46
6662269498	quatrain	A four line stanza	47
6662269499	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	48
6662269500	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	49
6662269501	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	50
6662269502	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	51
6662269503	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	52
6662269505	sestet	6 line stanza	53
6662269508	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	54
6662269509	sonnet	14 line poem	55
6662269511	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	56
6662269514	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	57
6662269515	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	58
6662269519	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	59
6662269520	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	60
6662269521	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	61
6662269522	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	62