AP English Literature Terms Flashcards

6711051527	Allegory	A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for something else	0
6711053717	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	1
6711055448	Bildungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	2
6711057573	Elegy	A lyric poem that laments the dead	3
6711059192	Lyric Poem	A poem of a single speaker who expresses his thoughts and feelings	4
6711062457	Pastoral	Literature that describes country or rural life	5
6711063890	Satire	A style of writing that ridicules human weaknesses, vice or folly in order to promote social reform	6
6711065563	Sonnet	A lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter	7
6711068464	Tragedy	A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse	8
6711071618	Villanelle	A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition	9
6711075967	Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem	10
6711077677	Caesura	A strong pause within a line of verse	11
6711079325	End Rhyme	A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines	12
6711080165	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next	13
6711084075	Speaker	The voice in a poem that talks to the reader (not to be confused with the poet)	14
6711086603	Alliteration	A repetition of initial consonant sounds	15
6711087628	Biblical Allusion	A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from the Bible	16
6711090547	Assonance	A repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words	17
6711092392	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	18
6711094929	Hyperbole	A gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement	19
6711097281	Paradox	A statement that appears to contradict itself but contains a truth beneath the surface	20
6711098007	Personification	The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities	21
6711099743	Simile	A comparison of two unlike things using like or as	22
6711101293	Metaphor	A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as	23
6711108536	Foil	Characters that contrast and emphasize the traits of the hero	24
6711111939	Mood	The general emotional effect of a poem, story or scene from a story	25
6711121549	Juxtaposition	Two contrasting elements placed side by side	26
6711122824	Oxymoron	Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect	27
6711124101	Repetition	Technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis	28
6711127209	Imagery	Descriptions that appeal to one of the 5 senses	29
6711129047	Symbol	A concrete object that stands for itself and for something broader than itself as well	30
6711133255	Soliloquy	A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage	31
6727531883	Slant Rhyme	A rhyming sound that is not exact	32
6743311030	Overstatement	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth	33
6743319505	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	34
6743326672	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language, sometimes used to create a feeling of antiquity	35
6743380088	Epithet	An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned	36
6743394561	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole	37
6756318151	Ode	A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner	38
6756336193	Anaphora	A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.	39
6756345531	Octave	An eight-line stanza	40
6756345532	Quatrain	A four-line stanza	41
6756346793	Sestet	A six-line stanza	42
6756369951	Cliche	A worn-out idea or overused expression	43
6756400896	Classical Allusion	A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from Greek or Roman mythology	44
6756406541	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	45
6756411444	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	46
6756437285	Internal Rhyme	A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse	47
6782058024	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	48
6782106351	Archetype	A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras	49