AP Literature Flashcards

7779129510	Allegory	Things, events and people have another extended, frequently abstract meaning.	0
7779132074	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate	1
7779133842	Apostrophe	Direct address to someone or something that is not present	2
7779133843	Connotation	Is a different meaning that the actual meaning of a word or emotions	3
7779137750	Convention	A device of style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression	4
7779137751	Denotation	The specific and literal meaning of a word	5
7779147058	Didactic	Explicitly instructive	6
7779150606	Degression	The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work	7
7779155811	Epigram	A pithy saying	8
7779157545	Euphemism	A figurative of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness	9
7779161949	Grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities	10
7779161950	Hyperbole	Exaggeration and overstatement	11
7779162076	Jargon	The specialized language of a profession or group	12
7779164790	Literal	The precise and explicit meaning	13
7779164791	Lyrical	Songlike	14
7779167474	Oxymoron	A union of contradictory terms	15
7779167475	Parable	A story designed to suggest a principle	16
7779213841	Paradox	A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but is true	17
7779213842	Parody	An imitation of something which is funny	18
7779216487	Personification	Giving non living items human characteristics	19
7779219707	Reliability	Fictional narrators in whose words the reader can place his trust	20
7779223874	Rhetorical Question	A question asked for effect	21
7779225922	Soliloquy	Where character speaks his thoughts aloud	22
7779228481	Stereotype	A convectional pattern, expression, character or idea	23
7779230786	Syllogism	A form of reasoning; 2 statements 1 conclusion	24
7780739031	Thesis	Theme, meaning, position	25
7780739078	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds(constant)	26
7780741035	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	27
7780741791	Ballad meter	Rhymed ABCD	28
7780741894	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	29
7780743385	Dactyl	A metrical foot of three syllables	30
7780744753	End-stopped	A line with a pause at the end	31
7780744754	Free verse	Poetry that is not written in a traditional meter	32
7780747044	Heroic couplet	Lines that have an AA-BB-CC rhyme	33
7780747045	hexameter	A line containing six feet	34
7780748812	Iamb	The most common foot in English poetry	35
7780751938	Internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end	36
7780755028	Onomatopoeia	Sounds that suggest their actual meaning	37
7780755128	Pentameter	A line containing five feet	38
7780757038	Rhyme royal	A seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc	39
7780757039	Sonnet	A poem written in iambic pentameter normally composed of 14 lines	40
7780758099	Stanza	A repeated grouping of 3 or more lines	41
7780765809	Terza rima	A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb,cdc	42
7780767045	Tetrameter	A line of four feet	43
7780767046	Antecedent	Gone before , especially the word, phrase or clause	44
7780768389	Clause	A group of words containing a subject and its verb	45
7780768390	Ellipsis	A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction	46
7780769661	Imperative	The mood of the verb	47
7780769662	Modify	To restrict or limit in meaning	48
7780776724	Parallel structure	A similar grammatical structure	49
7780777632	Periodic sentence	A sentence that comes complete at the end	50
7780777730	Syntax	The structure of a sentence	51