AP Literature Terms 2 Flashcards

7295294418	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty.	0
7295294419	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
7295294420	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.	2
7295294421	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical.	3
7295294422	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.	4
7295294423	Anapest	3 syllables foot - stress on the last	5
7295294424	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.	6
7295294425	Anecdote	A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point.	7
7295294426	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification.	8
7295294427	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	9
7295294428	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.	10
7295294429	Antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	11
7295294430	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	12
7295294431	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	13
7295294432	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	14
7295294433	Archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	15
7295294434	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	16
7295294435	Aside	A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage.	17
7295294436	Asyndeton	The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence.	18
7295294437	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.	19
7295294438	Ballad stanza	A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.	20
7295294439	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	21
7295294440	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.	22
7295294441	Caesura	A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.).	23
7295294442	Cacophony	In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds.	24
7295294443	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality.	25
7295294444	Catharsis	A release of strong emotions. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play.	26
7295294445	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. Informal diction.	27
7295294446	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	28
7295294447	Connotation	Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies.	29
7295294448	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	30
7295294449	Dactyl	3 syllables - stress on the first	31
7295294450	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words words (rather than at their beginnings)	32
7295294451	Denotation	A word's literal meaning.	33
7295294452	Dimeter	two foot line	34
7295294453	Diction	The words an author chooses to use.	35
7295294454	Dirge	A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy	36
7295294455	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.	37
7295294456	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, usually mournful manner.	38
7295294457	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	39
7295294458	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place.	40
7295294459	English Sonnet (Shakespeare)	a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond.	41
7295294460	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality.	42
7295294461	Feminine rhyme	last two syllables rhyme (lawful and awful) more complex	43
7295294462	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously.	44
7295294463	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast.	45
7295294464	Foot	The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed.	46
7295294465	Foreshadowing	An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later.	47