AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

7346226679	Agon	Dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work	0
7346226680	Allegory	A symbolic device to represent abstract ideas or principles beyond its literal meaning	1
7346226681	Alliteration	The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words	2
7346226682	Allusion	A reference within a literary work to a famous, historical, or biblical person outside of the literary work. A reference is oftentimes indirect and is usually used to explain or clarify something within the text.	3
7346226683	Ambiguity	A word, statement, or phrase that contains more than one meaning. This is the shape basis for unintentional humor.	4
7346226684	Anaphora	A literary and rhetorical device used in which a word or group of words are repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses. This technique provides emphasis and unity to the successive clauses.	5
7346226685	Antithesis	A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are combined to create a contrasting effect.	6
7346226686	Assonance	The repetition of a vowel sound, or a diphthong, in non-rhyming words. To qualify this, the words must be close enough for the repetition of sound to be noticeable. This is commonly used in poetry.	7
7346226687	Blank Verse	A verse without rhyme, especially one that uses iambic pentameter.	8
7346226688	Caesura	A grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry, like a question mark, usually near the middle of a line. This is usually dictated by sense or natural speech rather than by metrics.	9
7346226689	Catharsis	A cleansing of emotions for characters in a literary work. Emotions that are most prevalent in the catharsis of these characters include pity, sadness, and fear.	10
7346226690	Chiasmus	A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.	11
7346226691	Diction	A style of speaking or writing determined by the word choice of the speaker.	12
7346226692	End-stopped	A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (a sentence, clause, or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semicolon, period, or full stop.	13
7346226693	Enjambment	The practice of running lines of poetry from one line to the other without using any punctuation to indicate a stop.	14
7346226694	Explication	To clarify a meaning or explain. This literary technique is used as a literary analysis or criticism.	15
7346226695	Exposition	A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters, etc. to the audience	16
7346226696	Interpretation	A unique view of a person, work, place, thing, etc.	17
7346226697	Irony	A contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality, this can be a difference between the literal meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning. It might also be a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.	18
7346226698	Metonymy	A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.	19
7346226699	Periodic Sentence	A rhetorical device in which the completion of the main clause is left to the end, thus adding to the suspense.	20
7346226700	Schemes	A change in word order or pattern	21
7346226701	Syntax	The actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the literary piece	22
7346226702	Tropes	A figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words different from their literal meaning.	23