AP Literature Terms Flashcards

4333368655	Anaphora	In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.	0
4333374089	Bathos	An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.	1
4333385011	Chiasmus	A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.	2
4333390491	Deus ex machina	The circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome.	3
4333391713	Farce	A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.	4
4333394691	Litotes	An ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ).	5
4333396654	Non sequitur	Include the statements, sayings and conclusions that do not follow the fundamental principles of logic and reason. They are frequently used in theater and comedies to create comedic effects.	6
4333396655	Parable	A figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end.	7
4333399011	Stream of conciousness	A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow.	8
4333400245	Synesthesia	A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time.	9
4333400246	Trope	A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.	10
4333402415	Versimilitude	Likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it is a far-fetched one.	11
4333402416	Sestina	A fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi.	12
4333404254	Villanelle	A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.	13
4333404255	Anapest	A poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed as given in this line "I must finish my journey alone." Here the anapestic foot is marked in bold.	14
4333406100	Caesura	A break between words within a metrical foot.	15
4333406101	Aubade	A song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn.	16
4333408362	Elegy		17
4333408363	Epigram		18
4333409967	Pastoral		19
4333409968	Conceit		20
4333411854	Refrain		21
4333411855	Shift		22
4333414011	Scansion		23