AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6281250737	Alliteration	repeating consonant sound in close proximity to others	0
6281253607	Allusion	a casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature	1
6281257219	Anapest	a foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable	2
6281260834	Apostrophe	act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present	3
6281264114	Assonance	repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words	4
6281266405	Ballad	a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter	5
6281270834	Blank verse	unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even numbered syllables bearing accents	6
6281273930	Bildungsroman	German term for a coming of age story	7
6281275599	Caesura	a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry	8
6281278215	Colloquialism	a word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing	9
6332927738	Conceit	an elaborate or unusual comparison using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, or contradiction	10
6332929378	Connotation	additional meaning a word carries beyond its strict definition	11
6332929379	Consonance	alliteration in which the repeated consonants are marked by changes in intervening vowels	12
6332931961	Convention	a common feature that has become traditional or unexpected	13
6332931962	Couplet	two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit	14
6332937608	Dactyl	a three syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses	15
6332939641	Denotation	the minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary	16
6332944141	Diction	the choice of a particular word as opposed to others	17
6332944142	Didactic	writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson	18
6332948017	Dramatic Monologue	a poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener	19
6345904534	Dramatic Poem	a poem containing emotional, spiritual, and detailed elements	20
6345904535	Elegy	a poem dealing with the subject matter common to early Greco Roman poems	21
6345904536	Epiphany	a sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene	22
6345904537	Explication	the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol	23
6345904538	Figurative Language	the use of something other than the literal meaning of words to express an idea	24
6345904539	Foil	a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character	25
6384735024	Foot	a basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses	26
6384735025	Formulaic	constituting or containing a verbal formula or set form of words	27
6384736042	Free Verse	poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than constraints of meter	28
6384736043	Hubris	implying arrogance or excessive self-pride	29
6400070324	Hyperbole	exaggeration or overstatement	30
6400070325	Iamb	a unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable	31
6400070981	Iambic pentameter	a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable, five feet long	32
6400070982	Imagery	sensory perceptions referred to through description, allusion, simile, and metaphor	33
6400071585	Internal rhyme	poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end	34
6400071586	Intrusive narrator	an omniscient narrator who reports on the events of a story and further, comments on it	35
6400072351	Irony	saying one thing and meaning another, verbal, dramatic, and situational irony	36
6400073094	Leitmotif	used to designate a musical theme associated with a particular object, character or emotion	37
6400073095	Literal	a passage, story, or text intended only as a factual account of a real historical event	38
6400073675	Litotes	a form of understatement using a negative statement	39
6483253153	Lyric	a short poem often only a dozen lines long, often designed to be set to music	40
6483257172	Metaphor	a comparison or analogy state in a way as to imply that one object is another one	41
6483260611	Meter	a recognizable, varying patter of stresses syllables alternating with syllables of less stress	42
6483266809	Metonymy/synecdoche	a specific physical object used as a vague, suggestive symbol for a more general idea	43
6483270185	Monologue	a character speaking aloud to himself, narrating an account for the audience alone	44
6483275323	Mood	feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind	45
6483277988	Motif	a conspicuous recurring element such as an incident, device, reference, or verbal formula	46
6483279711	Narrative Poem	a poem that has a plot including epics, ballads, idylls, and lays	47
6483279712	Narrator	the voice that speaks or tells a story	48
6483281367	Octave	a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA	49
6771628390	Ode	a long, elaborate poem of varying lines with a serious subject matter	50
6771628391	Onomatopoeia	the use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect	51
6771628392	Oxymoron	a figure of speech that produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect	52
6771628393	Parable	a story of short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, lesson, or truth	53
6771628394	Paradox	using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense of a deeper level	54
6771628395	Paraphrase	a brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work	55
6771628396	Parody	imitates the manner and characteristic features of a particular work in order to mock it	56
6771628397	Pathos	elements used to inspire an emotional reaction	57
6771628398	Persona	an external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self	58
6771628399	Personification	a device through which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human characteristics	59
6839046195	Prosody	the mechanics of verse poetry-sounds, rhythms, scansion, meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, rhyme	60
6839046196	Pun	a play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning	61
6839047532	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern	62
6839047533	Refrain	a line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals	63
6839047534	Rhyme	a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words	64
6839049500	Rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyme	65
6839049501	Rhythm	the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech or poetry	66
6839049502	Satire	an attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor or critique	67
6839050918	Scansion	the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter	68
6839050919	Sestet	six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern such as CDECDE or CDCCDC	69
6891903148	Soliloquy	a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in a play when the character believes to be alone	70
6891903149	Sonnet	a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to pattern	71
6891903150	Spondee	a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats	72
6891903721	Stanza	an arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem	73
6891903722	Stress	the emphasis, length and loudness that mark on syllable as more pronounced than another	74
6891903723	Style	the author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects	75
6891904603	Subplot	a minor or subordinate secondary plot	76
6891904604	Symbol	a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level	77
6891904605	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities	78
6891905200	Syntax	the standard word order and sentence structure of a language	79
6942972314	End rhyme	rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes	80
6942977293	Theme	a central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work	81
6942977294	Tone	the means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood	82
6942978448	Trochee	a two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by light stresses	83
6942980001	Verse	a line of metrical writing, a stanza, or composition written in meter	84