AP English Literature Flashcards
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| 6442749749 | Active Voice | Pertains to any sentence with an active verb. Ex: "Robert crushed the tomato with his fist". |  | 0 |
| 6442782316 | Allegory | A second deeper meaning as well as it's surface story . Ex: "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" or "Animal Farm". |  | 1 |
| 6442800022 | Alliteration | The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence or line. Ex: "Sally sold seashells down by the seashore". |  | 2 |
| 6442833936 | Allusion | A reference to a person, historical event, another work. Ex: "Greek and Roman Mythology". |  | 3 |
| 6442843706 | Analogy | Comparison or similarity between two objects or ideas. Ex: "Obeying to a servant , ordering to a master". |  | 4 |
| 6442929598 | Aphorism | A brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. Ex: "Thinking all Silvers are evil is just as bad as believing all Reds are inferior". |  | 5 |
| 6442897120 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence, clause or paragraph. Ex: "This is mighty Norta, This is King Maven of House Calore, This is the flame of the North". |  | 6 |
| 6442944493 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines. Ex: "A's- Ms Katherine is from Napa Valley, California". |  | 7 |
| 6442979221 | Blank Verse | Any verse that doesn't rhyme. Ex: "most of Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse". |  | 8 |
| 6449112925 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry to make the meaning clear or to follow a rhythm of speech. Ex: "If you prick us do we not bleed?". |  | 9 |
| 6449125823 | Carpe Diem | Latin for Seize the Day. Ex: "Knox Overstreet confessing his love for Bobby". |  | 10 |
| 6449130977 | Connotation | The association or moods attached to a word. Ex: "Dreary , sullen, joyous, aggressive". |  | 11 |
| 6449148275 | Consonance | The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel. Ex: "Pitter- Patter". |  | 12 |
| 6449161650 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines. Ex: "I am king , you could've been my Red queen . Now you are nothing". |  | 13 |
| 6449188495 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. Ex: "Dictionary.com" |  | 14 |
| 6449195815 | Dialect | A regional speech pattern. Ex: "I ain't gone do nothin' bout y'all". |  | 15 |
| 6449458993 | Diction | The specific words an author uses in his/her writing. Ex: "Broken, Heartfelt". |  | 16 |
| 6449498095 | Elegy | A formal meditative poem or lament for the dead. |  | 17 |
| 6449505337 | Ellipses | Three dots indicating words have been left out of a quotation. Ex: "I don't kno..." |  | 18 |
| 6449520378 | Epistrophe | The ending of a series of lines , phrases, or sentences with the same words or words. Ex: " Silvers are gods , they breathe like gods , they behave like gods, they bleed like gods". |  | 19 |
| 6449541890 | Foil | A minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character. Ex: "Lotso and Woody from Toy Story 3". |  | 20 |
| 6449551873 | Foot | The combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the metric unit of a line. Ex: " King Henry Doesn't Usually Drink Chocolate Milk". | 21 | |
| 6449563781 | Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form but is characterized by irregularity in the length of the lines and lack of a regular metrical pattern/rhyme. Ex: " Silvers are the top of the heat , the gods among mere mortals. They flaunt their silk down wears , rare and precious jewels. They wipe their feet with us lowly Reds , Why? Because their the elite". |  | 22 |
| 6449596559 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration of an event or feeling. Ex: "Helinna Keating , she's said to be so beautiful that men fight for the right to claim her". |  | 23 |
| 6449611058 | Imagery | Language that appeals to one or another of the five senses. Ex: "She's a radiant beauty with locks as blacken as the night sky . A sweet aroma of lavender flowers and honey . Her skin is smooth as silk". |  | 24 |
| 6449794664 | Irony | The use of words to express something other than -and often the opposite of the literal meaning. Ex: "King Maven is angelic the way he murders innocent Reds". |  | 25 |
| 6449814148 | Jargon | A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people. Ex: "Think outside the box- Do not limit yourself to narrow minded thinking". |  | 26 |
| 6449838768 | Juxtaposition | The placement of one idea next to its opposite to make it more dramatic. Ex: "The song what a wonderful world being played during scenes of war and violence". |  | 27 |
| 6449856369 | Lyric | Any poem in which the speaker expresses intensely personal emotions or thoughts. Ex: "Poems meant to be sung". |  | 28 |
| 6449867219 | Malapropism | A wonderful form of comic word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar. Ex: "She's the kid of me of illiteracy- she's the epitome of illiteracy". | 29 | |
| 6449903820 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things that are essentially dissimilar. Ex: "She'd fallen through a trap door of depression". |  | 30 |
| 6449920798 | Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or units of stress patterns. Ex: "Foot ( as seen above)". |  | 31 |
| 6449929439 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for another with which it's closely associated. Ex: "The Crown- not literal but is meant to represent a King or Queen". |  | 32 |
| 6449944826 | Metric Line | A line named according to the number of feet composing it. Ex: "Monometer, Dimeter". |  | 33 |
| 6449957258 | Ode | A lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in its stanzaic structure. Ex: " Ode to Helinna, a fair beauty in sight, a radiant moon in the night, with green eyes so gleaming, she's flawless I must be dreaming". |  | 34 |
| 6449965521 | Onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which a word when spoken imitates the sound associated with the word. Ex: "Moo, Bark , Meow , Tweet, Crash , Pow , Boom , Swoosh , Thump, Splash". |  | 35 |
| 6450429930 | Paradox | A figure of speech seeks to create mental ambiguity which then forces the reader to pause and seek clarity. Ex: "My silent love grows louder with each passing moment". |  | 36 |
| 6450451873 | Parallelism | A pattern of language that creates a rhythm of repetition often combined with some other language of repetition. Ex: "This is the place where girls become women , boys become men and dreams become reality". |  | 37 |
| 6450627676 | Panegyric | A literary expression of praise. Ex: "O Captain! My Captain". |  | 38 |
| 6450639433 | Passive Voice | The passive voice is used when something is happening to someone. Ex: "The hitman shot Stefannie in the chest". |  | 39 |
| 6450652857 | Pastoral | A reference to or a description of simple country life. Ex: "Shepards watching over their sheep". |  | 40 |
| 6450667941 | Personification | Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things. Ex: "My freedom is my own personal hell, a grim reaper who follows me closely, awaiting my step out of place". |  | 41 |
| 6450686879 | Ploce | Repeating a word within the same line or clause. Ex: "You're a hypocrite Mare, a Godforsaken hypocrite". |  | 42 |
| 6450706651 | Point of View | The perspective from which the writer chooses to tell his/her story. Ex: "First - I, Second- You , Third - He/She, They". |  | 43 |
| 6450717569 | Pun | A play on words used to create humor or comedic relief. Ex: "Donut go crazy , I'm bananas for you , you egg-cite me". |  | 44 |
| 6450725964 | Refrain | A line , part of a line, or group of lines repeated in the course of a poem. Ex: "Nevermore in Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven". |  | 45 |
| 6450741111 | Repetition | The repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis. Ex: "You aren't him . You have changed into a monster, you are not the man I love . You don't deserve me". | | 46 |
| 6450756407 | Rhyme | The echo or imitation of a sound. Ex: " There goes Lady Titanos, she was taught by Lady Blanos , she's our lost Silver princess with electrokinesis , betrothed to a prince with pyrokinesis". |  | 47 |
| 6450772512 | Rhythm | The sense of movement attributable to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Ex: "The flow of sentences". |  | 48 |
| 6450781913 | Satire | A form of writing in which a subject is made fun of or scorned, eliciting amusement. Ex: "Parodies of famous songs or movies". |  | 49 |
| 6450793570 | Shift | A change in setting (or place in time), tone or speakers. Ex: "Light hearted - low and dreary". |  | 50 |
| 6450810927 | Simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made using like , as or than. Ex: "Quick as a whip. Swim like a fish". |  | 51 |
| 6451223493 | Soliloquy | A speech in which a character in a play, alone on a stage , expresses his/her thoughts. Ex: "Hamlet's To be or not to be". |  | 52 |
| 6451244564 | Sonnet | A fixed form of fourteen lines (normally in iambic pentameter) with a rhyme scheme. Ex: "ABAB CDCD EFEF GG_" |  | 53 |
| 6451290392 | Stanza | A group of lines that forms one division of a poem. Ex: "A stanza in a poem is a paragraph in an essay". |  | 54 |
| 6451306135 | Symbol | An object that signifies something greater than itself. Ex: "The bald eagle is often used as a symbol for the United States". |  | 55 |
| 6451326069 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. Ex: "All hands on deck". |  | 56 |
| 6451351189 | Theme | An insight into life conveyed by a poem or story, the theme is the main point the author wants to make with the reader. Ex: "Good vs Evil, Acceptance, Overcoming, Mystery, Love, War, Depression, Maturing". |  | 57 |
| 6451370125 | Verse | Lines of poetry or metrical language in general. Ex: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day". | | 58 |
| 6561188296 | Apostrophe | A direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse or to some other power. Ex: "O nature , thou art my goddess". |  | 59 |
| 6561199584 | Euphemism | To use inoffensive or more socially acceptable words for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some. Ex: "Earl you're fired, you lazy useless piece of crap, your face makes me sick". "Earl I have to let you go, you see your appearance makes me uncounterable and you're a tad bit lethargic". |  | 60 |