AP Literary Terms 1 Flashcards

8142890532	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	0
8142890533	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman	1
8142890534	Aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	2
8142890535	Consonance	the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words	3
8142890536	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	4
8142890537	Euphony	a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony	5
8142890538	Internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry	6
8142890539	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	7
8142890540	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	8
8142890541	Monologue	a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.	9
8142890542	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	10
8142890543	Puns	Imagery - Play on words, double meaning.	11
8142890544	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	12
8142890545	Sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	13
8142890546	Tragic hero	A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise	14
8142890547	Verbal Irony	The contrast between what is said and what is actually meant.	15
8142890548	Verse	Metrical language; the opposite of prose	16
8142938867	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry	17
8344336700	archetype	an original model on which something is patterned	18
8344362459	Realism	19th century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is	19
8344390284	hero's journey	Archetype that shows a heroes growth into greatness a set of steps taken by the protagonist leads him to the fullfillment of a quest	20
8344402304	monomyth	the hero's journey archetype that appears in all cultures	21
8344423005	reversal	the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction	22
8344458353	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	23
8344469990	motif	a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work	24