AP Literature Terms Flashcards

9712561692	allegory	story conveying meaning other than the literal	0
9712561693	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
9712564639	anagnorisis	discovery; hero becomes aware of situation of true character	2
9712564640	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis	3
9712564641	antecedent	word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces	4
9712567211	apologue	short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; fable	5
9712567212	apostrophe	speaker addresses an inanimate object	6
9712567213	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	7
9712569608	ballad	relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form	8
9712569609	bildungsroman	novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity	9
9712572719	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	10
9712655148	cacophony	deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds	11
9712680558	caesura	pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment	12
9712686800	canon	works of a writer	13
9712689913	caricature	portrait that exaggerates a human trait	14
9712703600	catharsis	emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy	15
9712707723	clerihew	thyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line	16
9712713024	colloquialism	informal speech	17
9712719903	comedy of manners	play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes	18
9712725817	conceit	extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things	19
9712730741	connotation	implied meaning of a word	20
9712733631	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds within words	21
9712742117	controlling image	metaphor that dominates an entire work	22
9712748845	couplet	rhyming pair of lines	23
9712751437	dactyl	poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed	24
9712756856	denotation	literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition	25
9712760692	deus ex machina	literally "god our of a machine", sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer	26
9712779346	diction	word choice	27
9712779347	dramatic monologue	poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives	28
9712788909	elegy	mournful or melancholic poem	29
9712796060	english sonnet	sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; shakespearean sonnet	30
9712805816	enjambment	continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura	31
9712814502	epigram	short, clever poem with a witty turn of thoughtq	32
9712819568	farce	extremely broad humor	33
9712822364	foil	character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist to emphasize the other character's traits	34
9712832357	foot	combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	35
9712836509	foreshadowing	event or statement that suggests a future event	36
9712841291	free verse	poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	37
9712855572	hamartia	fatal flaw of a tragic hero	38
9712855573	hubris	excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall	39
9712873093	hyperbole	exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement	40
9712877573	iamb	poetical foot with two syllables- first unstressed and second stressed	41
9712882366	implicit	implied meaning; opposite of explicit	42
9712885217	lyric	expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker	43
9712889536	magical realism	combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements	44
9712896947	metaphor	analogy that states one thing is another	45
9712904302	metonymy	use of a part to mean a whole object, related to synechdoche	46
9712911091	motif	recurring or dominant element in a work	47
9712916997	objectivity	impersonal view of events	48
9712921886	onomatopoeia	word that sounds like what it represents	49
9712924892	opposition	contrasting pairs of elements	50
9712930439	paradox	seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection	51
9712935700	parallelism	repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect	52
9712942097	pastoral	work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature	53
9712954457	peripeteia	reversal of fortune or character	54
9712957512	persona	narrator in a non-first-person novel	55
9712960204	personification	giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects	56
9712966503	protagonist	main character	57
9712969806	quatrain	four-line stanza	58
9712969807	satire	genre which ridicules	59
9712982819	sestina	poem consisting of six six-line stanza followed by a tercet (3 line stanza), for a total of 39 lines (same set of 6 words ends the lines of each of the 6 line stanzas, but in different order)	60
9712996623	simile	weak metaphor, often uses like or as	61
9713000617	stanza	group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph	62
9713004238	subjectivity	personal view of events	63
9713006774	subjunctive mood	mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation	64
9713012028	symbol	word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level	65
9713033563	synecdoche	metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object; related to metonymy	66
9713040157	synesthesia	one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of the senses	67
9713052330	syntax	word order	68
9713052331	theme	central idea of a work	69
9713055575	terza rima	poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc	70
9713061398	tragic flaw	weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his or her downfall	71