AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

9321599138	Accent	Refers to the stressed portion of a word	0
9321599139	Allegory	a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	1
9321599140	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds	2
9321599141	Allusion	A reference to another work or famous figure	3
9321599142	Anachronism	A misplacement in time	4
9321599143	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving different things	5
9321599144	Antagonist	The force or character opposing the protagonist	6
9321599145	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to	7
9321599146	Anthropomorphism	When a nonhuman is given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation	8
9321599147	Anticlimax	A disappointing end to an exciting series of events	9
9321599148	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman	10
9321599149	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language	11
9321599150	Archetype	A recurrent symbol in mythic literature	12
9321599151	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds	13
9321599152	Atmosphere	The tone or mood in a literary work	14
9321599153	Ballad	A narrative poem, usually in regular meter and rhyme, typically having a naive folksy quality	15
9321599154	Bathos	When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every moment	16
9321599155	Blank verse	Poetry in unrhymed lines of usually iambic pentameter	17
9321599156	Bombast	Pretentious language	18
9321599157	Bildungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	19
9321599158	Caesura	A break in the middle of a poetic line	20
9321599159	Cacophony	Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds	21
9321599160	Cadence	The beat or rhythm of a poem in a general sense	22