AP Literature Terms Flashcards

9258871851	allegory	a story with a symbolic representation	0
9258880253	alliteration	repetition with the first sound	1
9258881997	allusion	a reference to history, culture, pop culture, religion, literature, etc.	2
9258886948	anecdote	a short, amusing story	3
9258889780	antithesis	an exact oposite	4
9258893762	apostrophe	talking to someone or something that isn't there	5
9258896287	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds in a word or phrase	6
9258901126	ballad	narrative poem, often romantic	7
9258903657	blank verse	a poem that does not rhyme	8
9258910080	caesura	a pause in the middle of a verse	9
9258911766	conceit	an extended metaphor with complex logic	10
9258913604	consonance	repetition of the consonant sound in a word or phrase	11
9258916665	couplet	2 lines in a poem	12
9258918792	diction	word choice	13
9258920719	elegy	a melonchology or pensive poem written about death	14
9258927076	enjambment	the same thought continued on a different line in poetry	15
9258930146	exposition	background information	16
9258931947	eye rhyme (sight rhyme)	when something that looks like it rhymes but it doesn't ex (lint and pint)	17
9258943046	free verse	a poem with no rules, rhyme, or meter.	18
9258947384	haiku	a three lined poem that doesn't rhyme, format goes 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.	19
9258956512	hyperbole	an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally	20
9258961480	iambic pentameter	a poetry pattern or beat, 5 feet in a line, 2 syllables per feet	21
9258970827	imagery	creating a picture for a reader using all 5 senses	22
9258975474	juxtaposition	putting 2 things next to each other in order to create a greater effect (usually opposites)	23
9258983767	limerick	a 5 line poem (AA BB A)	24
9258990321	litotes	multiple negatives used on purpose (ex: you're not wrong)	25
9259004343	lyric	form and musical quality of a song	26
9259007116	metaphor	a figure of speech that is a direct comparison	27
9259011099	meter	the beat or rhythm of a poem	28
9259013378	metonymy	using the name of something for something that it is related to	29
9259016849	ode	a poem that expresses strong love and admiration for something or someone	30
9259019558	onomatopoeia	a word that imitates a sound	31
9259024134	oxymoron	two contradictory words (ex: bittersweet)	32
9259027249	paradox	an idea that seems to be self contradicting but it is not (ex: the more I exercise, the less tired I am)	33
9259032762	personification	giving lifelike characteristics to non living objects	34
9259037900	prosody	the study of the metrical structure of the verse	35
9259040486	quatrain	a group of four lines together in poetry	36
9259042623	refrain	in a poem, a phrase or verse that is repeated, like a chorus in music.	37
9259046147	requiem	a poem of remembrance, often about death.	38
9259049375	scansion	the analysis of the meter of verse	39
9259052204	similie	a comparison using like or as	40
9259053859	solioquy	one persona talking on stage alone, talking to themselves or the audience	41
9259058556	sonnet	14 lined poem often written in iambic pentameter using ABAB pattern, last couplet is CC, last line reveals meaning of poem	42
9259064818	stanza	a paragraph in poetry	43
9259066601	synesthesia	when a stimulus is applied to another sense (ex: you're so pretty it hurts)	44
9259071477	synedoche	cousins with metonymy, a part of something that represents the whole (ex: head count, set of wheels)	45
9259086543	syntax	a sentence structure	46
9259088262	trope	a word or expression used in a figurative sentence	47
9259089664	verse	a section of poetry	48
9259091117	villanelle	a poem that has 19 lines and a very fixed form, has 5 tercets. (ex: do not go gentle into that good night)	49