AP literature vocab Flashcards

4302240203	allusion	a reference to a literary or historical event person or place	0
4302245092	allegory	prose or poetic narrative in which the character behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning or significance ; universal symbol/personified abstraction ex. grim reaper	1
4302250061	attitude	speaker, author's, characters disposition toward or opinion of a subject	2
4302251658	anaphora	the regular repitition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses ex. I have a dream I have a dream that one day down in Alabama... I have a dream I have a dream that one day every valley...	3
4302256587	anecdote	a brief story or tale told by a character	4
4302258056	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure or ideas ex. "Too err is human, to forgive divine"	5
4302260719	apostrophe	an address or invocation to something that is inanimate - such as an angry lover who might scream at the ocean in their despair	6
4302266158	asyndeton	a style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a more fast paced, more rapid prose ex. I came, I saw, I conquered	7
4302271981	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity ex. the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains	8
4302278730	ballad	a narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung, characterized by repetition and refrain (recurring phrase or phrases)	9
4302282464	ballad stanza	common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain that alternates four beat and three beat lines: one and three unrhymed iambic tetrameter (four beats), and two and four are rhymed iambic trimeter (three beats)	10
4302288810	blank verse	the verse form that most resembles common speech, consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter	11
4302293621	caesura	a pause in line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns ex. Alas how changed! // What sudden horrors rise! A naked lover // bound and bleeding lies!	12
4302300711	chiasmus	a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second ex. I mean what I say and I say what I mean	13
4302305544	colloquial	ordinary language, the vernacular	14
4302306384	conceit	an extended metaphor	15
4302308252	consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels ex. the luMPy buMPy road	16
4302313756	couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection	17
4302316922	dactylic	metrical pattern, each foot consists of a syllable followed by two unstressed ones stressed, unstressed, unstressed /))	18
4302326577	dialect	the language and speech of idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region or group of people	19
4302331749	diction	specific word choice to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect	20
4302333685	dramatic monologue	a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience (synonymous with soliloquy)	21
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4302364858	elegy	a poetic lament upon the death of a particular people, usually ending in consolation	23
4302364859	enjambment		24