AP Literature Terms! Flashcards

8976020751	Allegory	Story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures	0
8976024110	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
9365551196	Anagnorisis	Discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character	2
9365557811	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis	3
9365589292	Apologue	Short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable; short allegory	4
9365605960	Apostrophe	Speaker addresses an inanimate object	5
9365618475	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	6
9365623916	Ballad	Relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form	7
9365640919	Bildungsroman	Novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturaty	8
9365656375	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	9
9365663322	Cacophony	Deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds	10
9365671849	Caesura	Pause or interruption in a poem; opposite od enjambment	11
9365681877	Canon	Works of a writer	12
9365686772	Caricature	Portrait that exaggerates a human trait	13
9365694239	Catharsis	Emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy	14
9365712632	Clerihew	Rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line	15
9365721452	Colloquialism	Informal speech	16
9365733518	Comedy of Manners	Play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes	17
9365740006	Conceit	Extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things	18
9365774497	Connotation	Implied meaning of a word	19
9365774498	Consonance	Repetition of consonants sounds within words	20
9365780930	Controlling Image	Metaphor that dominates an entire work	21
9365792222	Couplet	Rhyming pair of lines	22
9365800780	Dactyl	Poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short unstressed	23
9375962689	Denotation	Literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition	24
9375965402	Deus Ex Machina	Literally "God out of a machine;" sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer	25
9375981275	Diction	Word choice	26
9375983513	Dramatic Monologue	Poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives	27
9375989025	Elegy	Mournful or melancholic poem	28
9375992637	English Sonnet	Sonnet divided into three quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG	29
9376005343	Enjambment	Continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura	30
9376011581	Epigram	Short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought	31
9376013774	Farce	Extremely broad humor	32
9376015223	Foil	Character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's trait	33
9376019828	Foot	Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	34
9376022637	Foreshadowing	Event or statement that suggests a future event	35
9376026064	Free Verse	Poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	36
9376029973	Hamartia	Fatal flaw of a tragic hero	37
9376059196	Hubris	Excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall	38
9376070861	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of an understatement	39
9376075335	Iamb	Poetical foot with two syllables-first unstressed and second stresses	40
9376077188	Implicit	Implied meaning; opposite of explicit	41
9376082858	Lyric	Expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker	42
9376087068	Magical Realism	Combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements	43
9376127826	Metaphor	Recurring or dominant element in a work	44
9376129704	Metonymy	Use of a part to mean a whole object (i.e. hands to mean laborers); related to synecdoche	45
9376139008	Motif	Recurring or dominant element in a work	46
9376140947	Objectivity	Impersonal view of events	47
9376142797	Onomatopoeia	Word that sounds like what it represents	48
9376144996	Opposition	Contrasting pairs of elements	49
9376146386	Paradox	Seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection	50
9376150849	Parallelism	Repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect	51
9376153833	Pastoral	Work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature	52
9376159503	Peripeteia	Reversal of fortune or character	53
9376160861	Persona	Narrator in a non-first-person novel	54
9376162710	Personification	Giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects	55
9376164998	Protagonish	Main character	56
9376168984	Quatrain	Four-line stanza	57
9376168985	Satire	Genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change	58
9376176850	Sestina	Poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (three-line stanzas), for a total of thirty-nine lines (same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas but in a different order)	59
9376190548	Simile	"Weak metaphor", often uses "like" or "as"	60
9376192499	Stanze	Group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph	61
9376195069	Subjectivity	Personal view of events	62
9376196982	Subjunctive Mood	Mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e. if___ were___)	63
9376201386	Symbol	Word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level	64
9376203563	Synecdoche	Metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object, related to metonymy	65
9376208349	Synesthesia	One kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing the senses	66
9376212677	Syntaz	Word order	67
9376212678	Theme	Central idea of a work	68
9376213953	Terza Rima	Poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC	69
9376216391	Tragic Flaw	Weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall	70