AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 9850255977 | Anagnorisis | discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character | 0 | |
| 9850270348 | apologue | short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable; short allegory | 1 | |
| 9850283346 | ballad | relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form | 2 | |
| 9850286558 | cacophony | deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds | 3 | |
| 9850290954 | caesura | pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment | 4 | |
| 9850295622 | clerihew | rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line | 5 | |
| 9850299992 | dactyl | poetical foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed | 6 | |
| 9850305165 | deus ex machina | literally "got out of a machine"; sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story; often implying an lack of skill on the part of the writer | 7 | |
| 9850322799 | English sonnet | sonnet divided into 3 quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg; Shakespearean sonnet | 8 | |
| 9850338918 | enjambment | continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura | 9 | |
| 9850343743 | epigram | short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought | 10 | |
| 9850347462 | farce | extremely broad humor | 11 | |
| 9850351201 | foot | combination of stressed and unstressed syllables | 12 | |
| 9850354646 | hamartia | fatal flaw of a tragic hero | 13 | |
| 9850358923 | hubris | excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall | 14 | |
| 9850375815 | iamb | poetical foot with two syllables—first unstressed and second stressed | 15 | |
| 9850380760 | parallelism | repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect | 16 | |
| 9850386108 | pastoral | work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature | 17 | |
| 9850391482 | peripeteia | reversal of fortune or character | 18 | |
| 9850394859 | persona | narrator in a non-first-person novel | 19 | |
| 9850397879 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 20 | |
| 9850400319 | sestina | poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (three line stanza), for a total of thirty-nine lines (same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order) | 21 | |
| 9850426522 | subjunctive mood | mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e. if___ were___) | 22 | |
| 9850436195 | synesthesia | one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing senses | 23 | |
| 9850443428 | terza rima | poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme aba bcd cdc | 24 | |
| 9850449844 | tragic flaw | weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall | 25 |