AP Literature Summer Terms Flashcards

2890256040	Allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical	0
2890261771	Anaphora	a rhetorical device of repeating the same word or words at the start of two or more lines of poetry or successive phrases or sentences in prose	1
2890263450	Antithesis	a rhetorical device contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, balancing one against the other in strong opposition.	2
2890270964	Aphorism	a concise statement which expresses succinctly a general truth or idea often using rhyme of balance	3
2890275454	Apostrophe	a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstraction is directly addressed as though present	4
2890279342	Assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh / fade	5
2890282585	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	6
2890287136	Caesura	a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation	7
2890305731	Chiasmus	a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	8
2890312680	Complaint	a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help	9
2890314222	Conceit	an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared	10
2890318707	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word (as opposed to denotation)	11
2890320322	Consonance	Though the final consonants in several stressed syllables agree, the vowel sounds that precede them are different.	12
2890322643	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word (as opposed to connotation)	13
2890324907	Dissonance	the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together	14
2890326306	Elegy	a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person	15
2890328554	Ellipsis	the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context	16
2890331582	End-stopped line	a line of poetry that ends when the grammatical unit ends. Its opposite is enjambment.	17
2890333876	Enjambment	Describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continue on to the next line. In an enjambed line, the lack of completion creates pressure to move rapidly to the closure promised in the next line.	18
2890338613	Epigram	a concise, witty saying in poetry or prose that either stands alone or is part of a larger work; may also refer to a short poem of this type	19
2890340619	Euphony	a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony	20
2890342918	Exemplum	a brief tale used in medieval times used to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson	21
2890345641	Free Verse	poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme	22
2890353499	Idyll	a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called a pastoral	23
2890376339	Internal Rhyme	a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry, as in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping	24
2890378179	Litotes	a type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite (the teacher was not overly impressed with by the poor test scores)	25
2890384491	Lyric	a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story	26
2890386694	Metonomy	a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch	27
2890395501	Pastoral	a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both; also called an idyll	28
2890397364	Pathos	the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity or sorrow	29
2890405183	Polysyndenton	the use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect	30
2890407555	Stock Character	a standard character who may be stereotyped, such as the miser or the foold, or universally recognized, like the hard-boiled private eye in detective stories	31
2890408728	Syllepsis	the linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways (Ex. The migrants "exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends.")	32
2890413769	Synechdoche	the use of one part of an object to represent the entire object, such as using "boards" to mean "a stage" or "wheels" to mean "a car"	33
2890416780	Synesthesia	Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another, e.g., sound as color, color as sound, sound as taste, color as temperature	34
2890419553	Tautology	needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding (Ex. widow woman; free gift; close proximity)	35