AP Literature Terms Flashcards

8424617822	alliteration	Several words that begin with the same sound repeated in succession	0
8424621580	allusion	an indirect reference to another literary work	1
8424624880	anaphora	beginning successive clauses with the same sound	2
8424629695	antithesis	juxtaposing two opposite statements in one sentence	3
8424634974	diction	the usage of more complex word choice	4
8424642107	enjambment	continuing a sentence after a line break or stanza break in a poem	5
8424646936	end-stop	punctuating a clause at the end of a line	6
8424652486	frame narrative	telling a story from the perspective of another character (a story within a story)	7
8424678110	hyperbole	exaggerated description for emphasis	8
8424681595	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed-stressed syllable groups	9
8424685259	kenning	compound expression to describe an object or person	10
8424689460	objectification	describing an animate object as something inanimate	11
8424693950	onomatopoeia	describing a non-verbal sound using the Roman alphabet	12
8424701866	personification	describing an inanimate object as animate	13
8424706610	satire	mildly making fun of a serious topic	14
8424709294	soliloquy	speaking thoughts aloud, typically in a play	15
8424712113	sonnet	a fourteen-line poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet	16
8424716726	syntax	the structure and ordering of a sentence	17
8424723131	understatement	intentionally presenting something as smaller, worse, or less important than it really is	18
8424727208	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain	19