AP Literary Terms 1 Flashcards

8807430731	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	0
8807430732	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman	1
8807430733	Aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	2
8807430734	Consonance	the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words	3
8807430735	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	4
8807430736	Euphony	a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony	5
8807430737	Internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry	6
8807430738	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	7
8807430739	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	8
8807430740	Monologue	a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.	9
8807430741	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	10
8807430742	Puns	Imagery - Play on words, double meaning.	11
8807430743	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	12
8807430744	Sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	13
8807430745	Tragic hero	A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise	14
8807430746	Verbal Irony	The contrast between what is said and what is actually meant.	15
8807430747	Verse	Metrical language; the opposite of prose	16
8807430748	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry	17
8807430749	archetype	an original model on which something is patterned	18
8807430750	Realism	19th century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is	19
8807430751	hero's journey	Archetype that shows a heroes growth into greatness a set of steps taken by the protagonist leads him to the fullfillment of a quest	20
8807430752	monomyth	the hero's journey archetype that appears in all cultures	21
8807430753	reversal	the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction	22
8807430754	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	23
8807430755	motif	a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work	24