AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

7138121947	Ad Hominem	adjective. Appealing to personal considerations rather than fact or reason	0
7138122215	allegory	noun. A short moral story often with animal characters. A visual symbol representing an abstract idea. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject with suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.	1
7138124093	alliteration	noun. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line or verse.	2
7138126745	allusion	noun. A reference to a well known person,place or thing from literature, history, ect.	3
7138128017	anachronism	noun. A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. An act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong.	4
7138131301	anagram	noun. A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema formed from iceman.	5
7138133099	analepsis	1. the feast of Christ's ascension into heaven. 2. A literary technique that involves interruption of the chronological order of events by interjection of events, or scenes of earlier occurrence. A description of an event or scene from an earlier time that interrupts a chronological narrative. A literary flashback.	6
7138136085	analogy	noun. A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or classification. A correspondence or partial similarity. A thing that is comparable to something else significant respects.	7
7138140835	anapest	adjective or noun. A metrical fact consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.	8
7138142716	anaphora	noun. Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. Use of grammatical substitute to refer to a denotation of a preceding word or group of words; also: the relation between a grammatical substitute and its antecedent.	9