AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6669136970	alliteration	closely connected words that begin with the same sound	0
6669136971	allusion	a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth)	1
6669136972	anaphora	successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words	2
6669136973	antagonist	the character or force that opposes the main character	3
6669136974	apostrophe	a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present	4
6669136975	slant rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike; an imperfect rhyme	5
6669136976	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	6
6669136977	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds within words	7
6669136978	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an rhyme scheme	8
6669136979	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	9
6669136980	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	10
6669136986	characterization	process of revealing a character's personality	11
6669136990	connotation	meanings and feelings associated with a word	12
6669136991	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	13
6669136992	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	14
6669136996	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	15
6669137000	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	16
6669137001	end-stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	17
6669137002	Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	18
6669137010	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables	19
6669137011	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	20
6669137012	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	21
6669137014	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	22
6669137017	irony	In general, a contrast between expectation and reality	23
6669137019	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience/reader but not by the characters in the play/story.	24
6669137021	Italian or Petrarchan sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	25
6669137024	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	26
6669137025	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	27
6669137026	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	28
6669137030	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	29
6669137031	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	30
6669137032	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	31
6669137033	paradox	A seeming contradiction -- on closer examination, revealed to not be fully contradictory	32
6669137035	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	33
6669137038	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	34
6669137039	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	35
6669137040	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	36
6669137047	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	37
6669137052	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	38
6669137053	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	39
6669137054	sonnet	14 line poem	40
6669137055	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	41
6669137056	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	42
6669137058	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	43
6669137059	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	44
6669137064	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	45
6669137070	polysyndenton	the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary	46
6669137071	asyndeton	the elimination of conjunctions	47
6669137074	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next	48
6669137075	conceit	an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things	49
6669137076	epic simile or Homeric simile	an extended simile; often used in epic poetry	50
6669137077	parallelism	successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure	51
6669187223	juxtaposition	deliberate contrasting; placing characters, elements side by side to reveal differences	52
6669192836	syntax	sentence structures; punctuation	53
6669237963	elegy	a poem of mourning	54
6669244701	ambiguity	A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	55
6669263599	extended metaphor	a series of comparisons between two unlike objects	56
6669273637	pastoral	descriptions, works of literature focused on rural life, the countryside	57