AP literature Flashcards

10467540057	a "normal" line of poetry with the expected number of syllables in each line	acatalectic	0
10467540058	any writing or verse or prose that has a double meaning. ex: animal farm	allegory	1
10467540059	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words	alliteration	2
10467540500	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event	allusion	3
10467540501	a literary character or narrator who is a thinly disguised representation of the author, poet, or playwright creating a work	alter ego	4
10467542696	placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong time period	anachronism	5
10467543067	repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause	anadiplosis	6
10467543921	moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery	anagnorisis	7
10467544246	the repetition at the beginning of clauses	anaphora	8
10467544247	inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme	anastrophe	9
10467544720	a protagonist who is a non-hero or in the antithesis of a traditional hero	antihero	10
10467545669	artfully using a different part of speech to act as another in violation of the normal rules of grammar	anthimeria	11
10467547451	the object or animal is actually doing something human	anthropomorphism	12
10467549486	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas	antithesis	13
10467549487	an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form	aphorism	14
10467549488	the deliberate act of talking about how one is unable to talk about something	aporia	15
10467550246	a figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present	apostrophe	16
10467551538	designed to ward off evil influence or malevolent spirits by frightening these forces away	apotropaic	17
10467567294	a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology	archetype	18
10467567295	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	assonance	19
10467567296	a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning	aubade	20
10467567851	the voice of the author and is a part of that author's writing style	authorial voice	21
10467567852	four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three	ballad meter	22
10467567853	an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous	bathos	23
10467568993	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	bildungsroman	24
10467568994	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter	blank verse	25
10467569479		cacophony	26
10467569484		cadence	27
10467570072		caesura	28
10467570073		catalogue	29
10467571063		catharsis	30
10467571064		chiasmus	31
10467573571		chivalry	32
10467587778		circumlocution	33
10467591178		climax	34
10467591179		colloquialism	35
10467592213		comedy	36
10467592214		comedy of manners	37
10467592747		comic relief	38
10467592748		conceit	39
10467594532		consonance	40
10467594533		couplet	41
10467594534		dialect	42
10467595805		dialogue	43
10467595806		devices of sound	44
10467596873		deus ex machina	45
10467619906		diction	46
10467619907		didactic poem	47
10467620418		dirge	48
10467620419		dramatic poem	49
10467621092		ekstasos	50
10467621784		elegy	51
10467622465		ellipsis	52
10467622466		end stopped	53
10467622929		enjambment	54
10467622930		epigram	55
10467623491		epilogue	56
10467623492		epiphany	57
10467624048		epistle	58
10467624049		epistrophe	59
10467624463		epithet	60
10467635030		etymology	61
10467635031		euphemism	62
10467635994		euphony	63
10467635995		extended metaphor	64
10467638487		exitentialism	65
10467638488		eye rhyme	66
10467639112		fable	67
10467639113		farce	68
10467642090		feminine rhyme	69
10467642091		figurative language	70
10467642825		flashback	71
10467642826		fool	72
10467642830		frame narrative	73
10467644207		free indirect discourse	74
10467645224		free verse	75
10467646781		gothic literature	76
10467646782		hamartia	77
10467647665		heroic couplet	78
10467647666		hubris	79
10467647937		hyperbole	80
10467647938		imagery	81
10467649817		imperatives	82
10467649818		implied audience	83
10467652131		irony	84
10467652132		in media res	85
10467652719		internal rhyme	86
10467652720		invective	87
10467652757		kenning	88
10467653364		lament	89
10467659453		leit motif	90
10467659454		litote	91
10467659479		lyric poem	92
10467661625		malapropism	93
10467661626		masculine rhyme	94
10467662020		masque	95
10467662021		memoir	96
10467663067		metadrama	97
10467663068		metaphor	98
10467663069		meter	99
10467664028		metonymy	100
10467666216		mixed metaphors	101
10467666217		monologue	102
10467666218		motif	103
10467667111		narrative poem	104
10467667555		nostos	105
10467667556		novel of manners	106
10467667557		octave	107
10467668584		ode	108
10467668585		onomatopoeia	109
10467680735		othering	110
10467682034		oxymoron	111
10467682035		parable	112
10467683050		paradox	113
10467683061		parallelism	114
10467683763		paraphrase	115
10467683764		parody	116
10467683765		pastoral	117
10467687993		pathetic fallacy	118
10467688007		personification	119
10467689117		peripeteteia	120
10467689118		periphrasis	121
10467689652		poetic foot	122
10467690632		polysyndenton	123
10467690633		propaganda	124
10467691621		pun	125
10467691622		quatrain	126
10467691639		refrain	127
10467693255		rhyme	128
10467693256		rhythm	129
10467693745		sarcasm	130
10467693746		satire	131
10467694364		scansion	132
10467694365		sestet	133
10467694872		simile	134
10467694873		sonnet	135
10467696097		soliloquy	136
10467696098		spoonerism	137
10467696624		stanza	138
10467696625		stock character	139
10467697137		strategy	140
10467697138		stream of consciousness	141
10467697766		structure	142
10467697767		style	143
10467697768		sublime	144
10467700274		suspense	145
10467702026		syllepsis	146
10467702027		symbol	147
10467702416		synecdoche	148
10467702417		synesthesia	149
10467703775		syntax	150
10467703776		tercet	151
10467704690		terza rima	152
10467704691		theme	153
10467705317		tone	154
10467705318		tragedy	155
10467706021		tragic hero	156
10467706022		tragicomedy	157
10467707209		transcendentalism	158
10467707210		trope	159
10467708401		verisimilitude	160
10467708408		vernacular	161
10467709697		vignette	162
10467709698		wit	163
10467710250		zeitgeist	164
10467717840		zeugma	165