AP Literature Flashcards

7220197444	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	0
7220197445	Alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	1
7220197446	Allusion	an indirect reference	2
7220197447	Anachronism	something out of place in time	3
7220197448	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	4
7220197449	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	5
7220197450	Antecedent	a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another	6
7220197451	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	7
7220197452	Anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	8
7220197453	Antihero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.	9
7220197454	Aphorism	a short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment	10
7220197455	Apostrophe	A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present.	11
7220197456	Aside	A short remark or set of lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience	12
7220197457	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	13
7220197458	Ballad	a songlike narrative about an adventure or a romance	14
7220197459	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	15
7220197460	Cadence	a modulation or inflection of the voice	16
7220197461	Catharsis	a release of emotional tension	17
7220197462	Colloquialism	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.	18
7220197463	Conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	19
7220197464	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	20
7220197465	Consonance	agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.	21
7220197466	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	22
7220197467	Diction	word choice	23
7220197468	Dissonance	discord; lack of harmony	24
7220197469	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	25
7220197470	dramatic monologue	A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener	26
7220197471	Elegy	a sad or mournful poem	27
7220197472	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break	28
7220197473	Epic	a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero	29
7220197474	epitaph	a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone	30
7220197475	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	31
7220197476	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	32
7220197477	Foot	a group of syllables forming a unit of verse - the basic unit of 'meter'	33
7220197478	free verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	34
7220197479	Hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence	35
7220197480	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	36
7220197481	in medias res	in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things	37
7220197482	Inversion	the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted.	38
7220197483	Irony	the use of words to express something other than the literal meaning	39
7220197484	Metaphor	a figure of speech that compares unlike objects	40
7220197485	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	41
7220197486	Motif	a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition	42
7220197487	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	43
7220197488	Opposition	resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument.	44
7220197489	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	45
7220197490	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	46
7220197491	Paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	47
7220197492	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	48
7220197493	Parody	a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	49
7220197494	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	50
7220197495	Personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea	51
7220197496	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	52
7220197497	Refrain	stop oneself from doing something	53
7220197498	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead.	54
7220197499	Rhapsody	Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm	55
7220197500	Satire	using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule	56
7220197501	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	57
7220197502	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	58
7220197503	stream of consciousness	a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow	59
7220197504	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities	60
7220197505	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	61
7220197506	Theme	the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.	62
7220197507	tragic flaw	It is the force that causes the downfall of the hero	63
7220197508	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised	64