AP Literature Terms 3 Flashcards

8196654470	Aesthetic	Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty.	0
8196654471	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
8196654472	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.	2
8196654473	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
8196654474	Anachronism	"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.	4
8196654475	Anapest	3 syllables foot - stress on the last	5
8196654476	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship.	6
8196654477	Anecdote	A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point.	7
8196654478	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification.	8
8196654479	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	9
8196654480	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. Consider Winston in 1984.	10
8196654481	Antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	11
8196654482	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	12
8196654483	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	13
8196654484	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	14
8196654485	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.	15
8196654486	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	16
8196654487	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.	17
8196654488	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.	18
8196654489	Asyndeton	The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence.	19
8196654490	Ballad stanza	A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.	20
8196654491	Caesura	A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.).	21
8196654492	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	22
8196654493	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.	23
8196654494	Cacophony	In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds.	24
8196654495	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality.	25
8196654496	Situational irony	When the outcome is the opposite of what is expected; a direct reversal.	26
8196654497	Catharsis	A release of strong emotions. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play.	27
8196654498	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. Informal diction.	28
8196654499	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	29
8196654500	Connotation	Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies.	30
8196654501	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	31
8196654502	Dactyl	3 syllables - stress on the first	32
8196654503	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words words (rather than at their beginnings)	33
8196654504	Denotation	A word's literal meaning.	34
8196654505	Dimeter	two foot line	35
8196654506	Diction	The words an author chooses to use.	36
8196654507	Dirge	A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy	37
8196654508	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.	38
8196654509	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful, usually mournful manner.	39
8196654510	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	40
8196654511	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place.	41
8196654512	English Sonnet (Shakespeare)	a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond.	42
8196654513	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality.	43
8196654514	Feminine rhyme	last two syllables rhyme (lawful and awful) more complex	44
8196654515	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously.	45
8196654516	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast.	46
8196654517	Foot	The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed.	47
8196654518	Foreshadowing	An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later.	48
8196654519	Free verse	poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	49
8196654520	Heptameter	seven foot line	50
8196654521	First person	A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view. Uses "I".	51
8196654522	Hexameter	six foot line	52
8196654523	Hubris	Excessive pride or arrogance.	53
8196654524	Heroic couplet	a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style - complete thought	54
8196654525	Iamb	unstressed stressed pattern	55
8196654526	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement.	56
8196654527	Imagery	Language that strongly appeals to the 5 senses. Usually creates strong mental pictures or the sense that you can so clearly hear/touch/taste/smell whatever is being described.	57
8196654528	Italian sonnet (Petrarchan)	octave and sestet - corresponds to division of thought - structure reflects meaning - often the octave will present a situation/idea and the sestet an answer. abba, abba, cd,cd,cd/cde,cde/cdc,cdc.	58
8196654529	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginningin the middle of the action.	59
8196654530	Limited Omniscient point of view	A third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees (=limited), and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.	60
8196654531	Lyric	emotional poem - often regular rhyme scheme	61
8196654532	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme)	62
8196654533	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	63
8196654534	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	64
8196654535	Monometer	one foot line	65
8196654536	Metaphor	A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another.	66
8196654537	Motif	A repeating idea, image, word, etc., that supports the development of a theme.	67
8196654538	Narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	68
8196654539	Octometer	eight foot line	69
8196654540	Octave	8 line stanza	70
8196654541	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	71