AP English Literature Terms Flashcards

7096089496	Allegory	A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for something else	0
7096089497	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	1
7096089498	Bildungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	2
7096089499	Elegy	A lyric poem that laments the dead	3
7096089500	Lyric Poem	A poem of a single speaker who expresses his thoughts and feelings	4
7096089501	Pastoral	Literature that describes country or rural life	5
7096089502	Satire	A style of writing that ridicules human weaknesses, vice or folly in order to promote social reform	6
7096089503	Sonnet	A lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter	7
7096089504	Tragedy	A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse	8
7096089505	Villanelle	A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition	9
7096089506	Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem	10
7096089507	Caesura	A strong pause within a line of verse	11
7096089508	End Rhyme	A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines	12
7096089509	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next	13
7096089510	Speaker	The voice in a poem that talks to the reader (not to be confused with the poet)	14
7096089511	Alliteration	A repetition of initial consonant sounds	15
7096089512	Biblical Allusion	A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from the Bible	16
7096089513	Assonance	A repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words	17
7096089514	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	18
7096089515	Hyperbole	A gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement	19
7096089516	Paradox	A statement that appears to contradict itself but contains a truth beneath the surface	20
7096089517	Personification	The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities	21
7096089518	Simile	A comparison of two unlike things using like or as	22
7096089519	Metaphor	A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as	23
7096089520	Foil	Characters that contrast and emphasize the traits of the hero	24
7096089521	Mood	The general emotional effect of a poem, story or scene from a story	25
7096089522	Juxtaposition	Two contrasting elements placed side by side	26
7096089523	Oxymoron	Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect	27
7096089524	Repetition	Technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis	28
7096089525	Imagery	Descriptions that appeal to one of the 5 senses	29
7096089526	Symbol	A concrete object that stands for itself and for something broader than itself as well	30
7096089527	Soliloquy	A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage	31
7096089528	Slant Rhyme	A rhyming sound that is not exact	32
7096089529	Overstatement	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth	33
7096089530	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	34
7096089531	Archaism	the use of deliberately old-fashioned language, sometimes used to create a feeling of antiquity	35
7096089532	Epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned	36
7096089533	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole	37
7096089534	Ode	A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner	38
7096089535	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
7096089536	Octave	An eight-line stanza	40
7096089537	Quatrain	A four-line stanza	41
7096089538	Sestet	A six-line stanza	42
7096089539	Cliche	A worn-out idea or overused expression	43
7096089540	Classical Allusion	A reference to a statement, person, place or event that is known from Greek or Roman mythology	44
7096089541	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	45
7096089542	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	46
7096089543	Internal Rhyme	a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse	47
7096089544	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	48
7096089545	Archetype	A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras	49