AP Literature Terms Flashcards

7165880233	anticlimax	when a story builds up but the ending is a letdown	0
7165882049	antihero	a hero with negative qualities	1
7165883837	apostrophe	the act of talking to someone that isn't there	2
7165884281	Archaism	old fashioned language	3
7165886913	aside	breaking the fourth wall	4
7165887246	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	5
7165887934	ballad	lyrical poem with 16 lines and has a folksy feel	6
7165891155	black humor	use of disturbing themes in poetry	7
7165891539	blank verse	rhyme but no meter	8
7165891963	bombast	loud speech	9
7165891964	burlesque	a parody that takes a style of tragic drama but exaggerates it into ridiculousness	10
7165893503	cacophony	loud harsh sound	11
7165894047	cadence	rhythm of a poem	12
7165894048	canto	section or division in a long work of poetry	13
7165894740	caricature	verbal exaggeration of some part of a person's character	14
7165895420	catharsis	cleansing of emotion	15
7165896037	chorus	group of citizens that stand outside the main action and comment	16
7165896802	coinage	a new word that is accepted	17
7165897315	conceit	startling or unusual metaphor developed over several lines	18
7165897831	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds within words rather than in the beginning of words	19
7165898340	dirge	song for the dead	20
7165898725	dissonance	the grating of incompatible sounds	21
7165899634	doggerel	crude, simplistic verse often in singsong rhyme	22
7165901056	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker says something to a silent audience	23
7165901772	enjambment	continuation from one line to the next with no pause	24
7165902472	euphony	sounds that blend harmoniously	25
7165903712	farce	extremely broad humor, a funny play or comedy	26
7165904368	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their last two syllables- (i.e-running and gunning)	27
7165905382	foil	secondary character that reveals the characteristics of the main character through contrast	28
7165906362	foot	basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry	29
7165907400	free verse	no rhyme or meter	30
7165907762	Gothic	mysterious and gloomy writing	31
7165909350	In Media Res	latin for "in the middle of things"; when a story starts in the middle of action	32
7165909753	interior monologue	mental talking that goes on inside a character's head (sort of like stream of consciousness)	33
7165913237	inversion	switching the customary order of elements in a phrase or line	34
7165914378	lampoon	satire	35
7165914379	loose sentence	main clause in front of the sentence and subordinate clause at the end	36
7165915810	periodic sentence	subordinate clause in the front with the main clause at the end	37
7165916425	lyric	type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings for the world; it is used to describe tone and describes a sweet, emotional melodiousness	38
7165916776	masculine rhyme	rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	39
7165917728	melodrama	form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very very good while the villain is mean and rotten, the heroine is pure	40