AP Literature Flashcards

6708642062	Anaphora	regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a phrase or clauses	0
6708661135	Aphorism	short saying that teaches a lesson	1
6708666668	Asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions to create concise, terse and often memorable	2
6708674875	Cacophony	harsh, jarring, unpleasant sound	3
6708678979	Chiasmus	inversion of the order of words in a previous phrase	4
6708685830	Conceit	elaborate figure of speech comparing two dissimilar things	5
6708695503	Euphemism	use of inoffensive language in place of language that readers or listeners may find hurtful or otherwise objectionable	6
6708718828	Feminine Rhyme	occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word	7
6708724624	Loose Sentence	sentence in which the main point precedes less important details	8
6708729039	Masculine Rhyme	rhyme is last syllable	9
6708731104	Metonym	substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it	10
6708734893	Paradox	statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true	11
6708745051	Parallelism	use of a series of words, phrases or sentences that have similar grammatical form	12
6708749807	Parenthetical Phrase	phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail	13
6708759265	Pastoral	literary work idealizing the rural life	14
6708763340	Periodic Sentence	sentence in which the less important details precede the main point	15
6708766369	Polysyndeton	sentence which uses "and" or another conjunction ( with no commas) to separate the items in a series	16
6708776209	Requiem	song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person	17
6708785355	Rhapsody	intensely passionate verse or sections or verse usually of love or praise	18
6708791075	Zeugma	use of the word to modify tow or more words, but used for different meanings	19
6708795445	Allegory	story that involves sustained comparison between people, things or events that symbolically represent something else	20
6708799525	Allusion	reference to a statements, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politic, sports, science, or pop culture	21
6708809205	Apposition	word or group of words that renames the noun it follows	22
6708827753	Archetype	symbol or idea understood by all cultures around the world since time began	23
6708851542	Art for arts's sake	doctrine that traces itself back to poetic principle of Edger Allan Poe	24
6708866492	Colloquialism	conversational speech or manner of speaking to a related to a certain group of people, isn't part of "school book" English	25