AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6668521899	allusion	a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth)	0
6668532912	Anadiplosis	a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence.	1
6668521900	anaphora	successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words	2
6668538538	antithesis	the use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures float like a butterfly sting like a bee	3
6668521902	apostrophe	a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present	4
6668521905	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds within words	5
6668556053	asyndeton	the omission of a conjunction such as "and" or "as" from a series of related clauses	6
6668560339	aubade	a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.	7
6668570060	axiom	a universally accepted principle or rule	8
6668571056	bildungsroman	a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.	9
6668574826	Byronic Hero	Heathcliff- dark unknown past, extreme emotions, gothic elements	10
6668578172	chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you."	11
6668586001	colloquialism	a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation	12
6668521919	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	13
6668521935	feminine rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	14
6668521950	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	15
6668521954	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	16
6668521957	octave	segment of poetry eight lines long	17
6668521960	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	18
6668521976	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	19
6668521978	sestet	segment of poetry six lines long	20
6668521984	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	21
6668521987	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	22
6668521988	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	23
6668521990	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	24
6668521995	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	25
6668521998	polysyndenton	the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary	26
6668522000	epistrophe	the repetition of words at the ENDS of successive phrases or clauses	27
6668522002	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next	28
6668522003	conceit	an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things	29
6668522005	parallelism	successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure	30