AP Literature Flashcards

4334061584	Allegory	story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualitites	0
4334075937	Alliteration	repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together	1
4334097026	Allusion	reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something	2
4334162454	Ambiguity	deliberately suggesting two or more, sometimes conflicting, meanings is a work	3
4334175728	Analogy	comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	4
4334189276	Anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.	5
4334198363	Anastrophe	inversion of the usual, logical, or normal order of the parts of a sentence	6
4334217540	Anecdote	brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something	7
4334230169	Antagonist	opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero	8
4334237583	Antimetabole	repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical	9
4334253302	Antithesis	balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	10
4334274185	Antihero	central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heros	11
4334290646	Anthropomorphism	attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object	12
4334297945	Aphorism	brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle, or an accepted truth	13
4334380927	Apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place or thing or a personified abstract idea	14
4334447850	Apposition	placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation,	15