ap literature terms Flashcards

6629762516	allegory	a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; symbolic narrative	0
6629762517	alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables	1
6629762518	allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	2
6629762519	anaphora	repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences	3
6629764080	anecdote	a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point	4
6629764081	antithesis	two opposite ideas put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect	5
6629764082	apostrophe	a direct address to an abstraction, a thing, an animal, or an imaginary or absent person	6
6629765593	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words	7
6629765594	atmosphere	the feeling, emotion, or mood that an author creates in a narrative through descriptive language (style, tone, setting)	8
6629765595	blank verse	un-rhymed iambic pentameter; most commonly used verse form	9
6629765596	consonance	consonant sound is repeated in words that are in close proximity	10
6629767511	couplet	two successive lines in a poem that comprise a rhyming couplet with the same meter	11
6629767512	elegy	a contemplative poem on death and mortality, often written for someone who died	12
6629767513	enjambment	poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning	13
6629767514	euphemism	polite, indirect expression which replaces words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant	14
6629769123	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point	15
6629769124	irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	16
6629769125	Impressionism	a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction	17
6629770579	iambic pentameter	a line with verse of five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable	18
6629770580	metaphor	a figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as	19
6629770581	meter	organization of stressed and unstressed syllables; measured in feet	20
6629770582	metonymy	a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it	21
6629772592	Minimalism	a style in prose or verse that emphasizes economy of words and unadorned sentences	22
6629772593	Naturalism	a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions	23
6629772594	octave	a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter; first part of a Petrarchan sonnet	24
6629774988	onomatopoeia	use of words to sound and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds	25
6629774989	ode	form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition	26
6629774990	quatrain	verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme	27
6629776357	Realism	accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality; in contrast to Romanticism, Impressionism, or Expressionism	28
6629776358	rhythm	general pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	29
6629776359	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but actually is not	30
6629776360	personification	a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is imbued with human qualities	31
6629777960	Romanticism	movement that emphasized beauty for beauty's sake, the natural world, emotion, imagination, the value of a nation's past and its folklore, and the heroic roles of the individual and the artist	32
6629777961	sestet	last six lines of a sonnet; six lines of poetry	33
6629777962	simile	figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using like or as	34
6629777963	synecdoche	part of something is used to represent the whole	35
6629779632	synesthesia	a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense (sight, sound, smell, taste, etc.)	36
6629779633	syntax	the arrangement of words, phrases, and sentences in a prose passage	37
6629781668	understatement	presentation of framing something as less important, lawful, good, powerful, etc.	38