AP Literature terms Flashcards

7220754509	alliteration	same letter/sound at the beginning of a word	0
7220754510	allegory	metaphor to real world issue or event	1
7220755916	allusion	indirect passing reference	2
7220757530	anastrophe	inversion of a usual	3
7220761556	antagonist	bad guy	4
7220762775	antithesis	person/thing opposite of something/someone	5
7220766399	apostrophe	speech or open addressed to someone (topically dead)	6
7220766995	archetype	typical example of person/thing	7
7220768307	assonance	repetition of a vowel	8
7220770235	blank verse	verse without rhyme	9
7220770711	chiasmus	words repeated in reverse order	10
7220777227	conceit	kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way	11
7220778266	connotation	idea or feeling	12
7220778522	consonance	repetition of a consonant sound	13
7220780400	exposition	explanation of idea/theory	14
7220781627	rising action	suspense creator	15
7220781950	conflict	disagreement/clash	16
7220783181	climax	most important/exciting part	17
7220786138	falling action	aftermath of climax	18
7220786525	resolution	solution/worked out	19
7220786797	denouement	resolution	20
7220787697	end stopped	ended with a period, exclamation, or colons as a natural pause	21
7220791254	enjambment	continuation of sentence without pause	22
7220791489	commentary	expression or opinion	23
7220791913	concrete detail	discrete information	24
7220792481	thesis	statement to be proven or maintained	25
7220792664	topic sentence	main idea of a paragraph	26
7220792841	fiction	fake	27
7220792843	foil	character who contrasts with another	28
7220793162	foreshadowing	be a warning or indication of (a future event)	29
7220793677	free verse	poetry doesnt rhyme or have regular meter	30
7220796463	hyperbole	exaggeration	31
7220796597	iamb	1 short syllable followed by 1 long syllable	32
7220796924	imagery	description to portray an image	33
7220797344	irony	opposite in order to have humor	34
7220797612	litotes	understatement by negative of its contrary ( You wont be sorry)	35
7220798062	metaphor	not literally applicable	36
7220798377	meter	rhythm in poetry	37
7220798708	metonymy	substitution for something (suit=business)	38
7220799386	onomatopoeia	sound association with name ( cuckoo, sizzle)	39
7220801644	paradox	absurd statement/proposition	40
7220802589	personification	giving human like characteristics to non living items	41
7220803028	poetic foot	rhythm	42
7220804529	protagonist	hero	43
7220804530	simile	comparison	44
7220804807	tone	characteristic/attitude	45
7220804981	diction	words, vocab, etc.	46
7220805631	detail	feature, fact, item	47
7220806044	organization	order	48
7220806045	point of view	the position from which something or someone is observed.	49
7220807090	syntax	sentence structure	50
7220809722	symbol	mark of representation	51
7220810221	synecdoche	figure of speech to represent a whole	52
7220818843	theme	subject to talk about	53
7220819319	thesis	statement to proven or maintained	54
7220819697	volta	turn of thought or argument	55