AP Literature Vocab Terms Flashcards

6376559707	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	0
6376570592	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	1
6376570836	Anaphora	A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.	2
6397500922	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	3
6397501812	Cumulative Sentence	An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail.	4
6397502139	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.	5
6397502493	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	6
6397502618	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	7
6397502845	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	8
6397503772	Conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	9
6397504360	Denouement	An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	10
6397504736	Appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun.	11
6397504821	Epithet	An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.	12
6397507455	Slant Rhyme	Rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme	13
6397507743	Complex Sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	14
6397508078	Compound Sentence	A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions.	15
6397508309	Loose Sentence	A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.	16
6397508654	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed.	17
6397509060	Em dashes	The -- ---- may replace commas, semicolons, colons and parentheses. There are often situations where a period is to strong, a semicolons too formal, but a comma is too weak.	18
6401738145	Ballade	French in origin and made up of 28 lines, usually three stanzas of 8 lines and a concluding stanza, called envoy, of 4 lines. The last line of each stanza is the same and the scheme is ababbcbc and the envoy's is bcbc.	19
6401738430	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	20
6401738889	Villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	21
6433612891	Heroic Couplet	Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.	22
6433643680	Epitaph	inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)	23
6433650717	Enigma	A mystery; a puzzle	24
6433654969	Pathetic Fallacy	faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects	25
6433659963	Dramatic Irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	26
6433663335	Tragic Flaw	A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.	27