AP English Literature Terms Flashcards

4308254950	Aphorism	A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment	0
4308258342	Apostrophe	When the speaker addresses someone or something that isn't present	1
4308271381	Assonance	The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose	2
4308273987	Burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation	3
4308275489	Cacophony	Grating, inharmonious sounds	4
4308282194	Conceit	A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language	5
4308285193	Elegy	A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value	6
4308288537	Eulogy	A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, usually someone who has just died.	7
4308302463	Enjambment	In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them	8
4308317546	Euphony	Pleasing, harmonious sounds	9
4308317547	Foot	A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line.	10
4308317548	In medias res	"In the middle of things"--a Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events, but at some other critical point.	11
4308338121	Metonymy	A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated.	12
4308338122	Oxymoron	A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect	13
4308347131	Paradox	A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true	14
4308350125	Irony	A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected	15
4308355539	Satire	A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change	16
4308356941	Scan	The act of determining the meter of a poetic line.	17
4308360592	Dramatic Irony	A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character.	18
4308365277	Situational Irony	When a character expects one thing to happen and something opposite happens	19
4308373358	Verbal Irony	When someone says one thing but means another	20
4308393677	Villanelle	A poem which consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.	21
4308406572	Terza rima	A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme	22
4308415727	Italian Sonnet	A fourteen line poem with one octet and one sextet	23
4308531122	English Sonnet	A fourteen line poem with three quatrains and one couplet	24
4308556477	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole	25