AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6743469578	Anagnorisis	A moment of realization or recognition by the protagonist in literature	0
6743484459	Antithesis	Opposite of something else	1
6743488082	Aphorism	Short phrase that expresses a wise idea	2
6743498494	Apostrophe	Address a person who isn't there or an abstraction as if they are a person (death, be not proud)	3
6743509950	Assonance	Two words repeat the same vowel sound	4
6743512462	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets	5
6743518143	Cacophony	Harsh, jarring noise	6
6743519782	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	7
6743519783	Canon	an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature	8
6743521312	Choleric	Easily angered	9
6743521313	Conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	10
6743521314	Didactic	Instructive	11
6743523207	Dramatic Irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	12
6743528587	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	13
6743528588	End-Stopped Lines	the line of verse ends with the end of the sentence	14
6743528589	Epigram	A brief witty poem, often satirical.	15
6743531094	Epigraph	quotation at the beginning of a literary work	16
6743531095	Epistle	a letter or literary composition in letter form	17
6743531096	Epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something	18
6743536862	Gustatory Imagery	taste	19
6743536863	Hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence	20
6743544405	Litotes	Understatement	21
6743544406	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	22
6743546896	Olfactory Imagery	smell	23
6743551964	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	24
6743551965	Phlegmatic	calm and unemotional in temperament	25
6743556057	Heroic Couplet	Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.	26
6743556058	Sanguine	Optimistic	27
6743564473	Situational Irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	28
6743564474	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	29
6743566837	Tactile Imagery	touch	30
6743566838	Trochaic	Stressed, unstressed	31
6743570566	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	32