AP English Literature: Lit Terms Flashcards

4304224832	Allegory	story or poem in which elements stand for other people or for abstract ideas or qualities	0
4304233354	Anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row	1
4304235638	Ananstrophe	inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence	2
4304241217	Antimetabole	repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order	3
4304242366	Antithesis	balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	4
4304245196	Aphorism	brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth	5
4304247774	Apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.	6
4304249426	Invocation	asking a god or goddess for inspiration	7
4304250290	Apposition	placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set by a colon)	8
4304254906	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together	9
4304256214	Asyndeton	commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally	10
4304257604	Balance	constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance	11
4304271108	Chiasmus	in poetry; a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike)	12
4304280934	Conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different	13
4304282508	Confessional Poetry	a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poets life	14
4304291626	Diction	a speaker or writer's choice of words	15
4304292959	Didactic	form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking	16
4304295668	Elegy	a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died	17
4304297332	Epanalepsis	device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence	18
4304308940	Epithet	an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality	19
4304314021	Argumentation	one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals	20
4304315219	Persuasion	relies more on emotional appeals than on facts	21
4304316378	Argument	form of a persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way	22
4304333965	Explication	act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language	23
4304336181	Fable	a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life	24
4304338207	Farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations	25
4304365520	Hypotactic	sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them	26
4304381497	Litotes	a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form	27
4304383473	Local Color	a term applied to emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape	28
4304385977	Lyric Poem	a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker	29
4304388320	Ballad	tells a story- type of dramatic poem	30
4304393317	Metonymy	a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it	31
4304395984	Parable	a short story that teaches a moral	32
4304396619	Parallel Structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	33
4304398219	Paratactic Sentence	simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences	34
4304411012	Periodic	sentence that places the main idea or central complete though at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements	35
4304413886	Polysyndenton	sentence which uses conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series	36
4304415528	Refrain	word or phrase repeated several times within a poem for effect	37
4304419062	Synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole	38
4304420749	Telegraphic Sentence	a sentence shorter than five words in length	39
4304421276	Tricolon	sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses	40