ap literature Flashcards

6753315620	allegory	a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities	0
6753321217	anachronism	an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order of time or misplaced in time	1
6753324420	anadiplosis	the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	2
6753331146	anecdote	a very short story used to illustrate a point	3
6753332511	chiasmus	the repetition or words, in clauses, in reverse grammatical order	4
6753336281	antithesis	establishing a contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them	5
6753343406	aphorism	a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life	6
6753346631	aposiopesis	stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished	7
6753350337	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly	8
6753357505	archetype	a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal	9
6753364513	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words	10
6753370787	caesura	a pause in a line or verse, a break in a sentence or clause	11
6753375785	circumlocution	a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served	12
6753381367	conceit	a far-fetched metaphor presenting surprising parallels between two dissimilar things	13
6753387829	consonance	the repetition of identical or similar consonants whose vowel sounds are different	14
6753390908	denouement	loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion	15
6753399754	dogmatic	rigid in beliefs and principles	16
6753401448	enjambment	the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping	17
6753403925	epigram	witty aphorism	18
6753406132	epigraph	the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at a theme	19
6753407513	epistrophe	the repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses	20
6753412666	epithet	a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character	21
6753419040	ethos	the ability in literature or argument to utilize an appeal to one's ethics or morals	22
6753424224	exposition	beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation	23
6753431549	farce	a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue	24
6753440096	incongruity	the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other, paradox, dichotomy	25
6753444878	in media res	"in the middle of things" a story begins in middle and flashbacks are used to fill in the plot	26
6753453020	inversion	words placed out of order for poetic emphasis	27
6753455477	juxtaposition	the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of a paragraph to contrast with another nearby	28
6753459436	litote	an affirmation made indirectly by stating the opposite, usually with an effect of understatement	29
6753466551	metonymy	the technique of substituting a word for an object closely associated with it	30
6753469594	motif	recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature	31
6753492843	English sonnet	ABAB ABAB EFEF GG	32
6753495630	Italian sonnet	ABBA ABBA CDE CDE	33
6753499334	syllogism	a form of logical reasoning with two premises and a conclusion	34
6753501628	synesthesia	the description of one kind of sensation coupled with another	35
6753504412	synecdoche	the technique of lessening the status of something to a part of its whole "All hands on deck!"	36