AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 9093254916 | Alliteration | Repeating consonant sound in a close proximity to others. | 0 | |
| 9093254917 | Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature. | 1 | |
| 9093267124 | Anapest | A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable. | 2 | |
| 9093277131 | Apostrophe | Act of addressing some abstraction of personification that is not physically present. | 3 | |
| 9093281615 | Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words. | 4 | |
| 9103677603 | Ballad | A narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. | 5 | |
| 9103700719 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents. | 6 | |
| 9103719117 | Bildungsroman | German term for coming-of-age story. | 7 | |
| 9103721948 | Caesura | A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry. | 8 | |
| 9103728445 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing. | 9 |