AP Literature Terms 1 Flashcards

7253312126	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty.	0
7253312127	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
7253312128	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.	2
7253312129	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
7253312130	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.	4
7253312131	Anapest	3 syllables foot - stress on the last	5
7253312132	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.	6
7253312133	Anecdote	A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point.	7
7253312134	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification.	8
7253312135	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	9
7253312136	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.	10
7253312137	Antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	11
7253312138	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	12
7253312139	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	13
7253312140	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	14
7253312142	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
7253312143	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	16
7253312144	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
7253312145	Asyndeton	The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence.	18
7253312141	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.	19
7253312146	Ballad stanza	A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.	20
7253312148	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	21
7253312149	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.	22
7253312147	Caesura	A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.).	23