AP Literature Terms Flashcards

2895036386	Allegory	A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning.	0
8771747847	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible	1
8771753589	Apostrophe	Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present.	2
8771757010	Connotation	The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning. (denotation)	3
8771759401	Convention	A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression	4
8771761817	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation	5
8771763577	Didactic	Explicitly instructive. A didactic poem or novel may be good or bad	6
8771768839	Soliloquy	A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.	7
8771773315	Digression	The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	8
8771774704	Epigram	A pithy saying, often using contrast. Also being a verse form.	9
8771777550	Euphemism	A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead" or "remains"	10
8771794697	Grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities	11
8771796221	Hyperbole	Deliberate exaggeration, over statement. Hyperbole is self-conscious, without the intentions of being accepted literally.	12
8771800706	Jargon	The special language of a profession or group. usually has pejorative associations, with the implications that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders	13
8771806978	Literal	Not figuratively accurate to the letter; matter of fact of concrete	14
8771810155	Lyrical	Song like; characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination	15
8771853645	Syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them.	16
8771855854	Allusion	A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event.	17
8771858199	Attitude	A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject	18
8771860606	Details	Details are items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.	19
8771861743	Reliability	A quality of some fictional narrators whose words the reader can trust. There are both reliable and unreliable narrators, that is, tellers of a story who should or should not be trusted	20
8771888127	Devices of Sound	The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Among devices of sound are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia	21
8771892409	Diction	Word choice. Nearly all essay questions on a passage of prose or a poem will ask you to talk about diction or about "techniques"	22
8771895035	Figurative language	Writing that uses figures of speech ( as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted)	23
8771897595	Parody	A composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect	24
8771899288	Parable	A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Parables are allegorical stories.	25
8771902226	Alliteration	The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.	26
8771997638	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	27
8771998972	Ballad meter	A four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four	28
8772000809	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	29
8772013955	Dactyl	Three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables	30
8772031967	End-Stopped	A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, colon. semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are end-stopped lines.	31
8772034136	Free-Verse	Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical	32
8772035537	Heroic couplet	Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit	33
8772037622	Hexameter	A line containing six feet	34
8772038732	Iamb	A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed y an accented syllable	35
8772040772	Internal Rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.	36
8772042715	Onomatopoeia	Sound suggest their meaning like "buzz", "hiss" or "honk"	37
8772045756	Pentameter	A line containing five feet. the iambic pentameter is the most common line in English verse written before 1950	38
8772047574	Rhyme Royal	Seven-Line Stanza	39
8772048308	Sonnet	Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem	40
8772049179	Stanza	Usually repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	41
8772050558	Terza Rima	Three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc	42
8772052185	Tetrameter	A line of four feet	43
8772053077	Antecedent	That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, pr clause to which a pronoun refers	44
8772055832	Clause	A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence	45
8772056629	Ellipsis	The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable	46
8772058400	Imperative	The mood of a verb that gives an order, like "eat your spinach"	47
8772060103	Modify	To restrict or limit in meaning.	48
8772061052	Parallel structure	Similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph	49
8772074436	Periodic Sentence	A sentence grammatically complete only at the end. A loose sentence is grammatically complete before the period.	50
8772076971	Syntax	The structure of a sentence	51