AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

5774013378	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	0
5774013380	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	1
5774013383	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	2
5774013384	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	3
5774013385	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	4
5774013386	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	5
5774013398	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	6
5774013410	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	7
5774013423	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	8
5774013432	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	9
5774013434	narrator	Person telling the story	10
5774013443	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	11
5774013444	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	12
5774013445	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	13
5774013446	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	14
5774013447	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	15
5774013459	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	16
5774013460	sonnet	14 line poem	17
5774013461	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	18
5774013462	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	19
5774013465	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	20
5774013470	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	21
5774013471	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	22