AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 7996628342 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 9675841054 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 1 | |
| 9675848042 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 2 | |
| 9675851260 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 3 | |
| 9675906181 | Apostrophe | a term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem | 4 | |
| 9675909265 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another | 5 | |
| 9675912593 | Antithetical | a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 6 | |
| 9675917383 | Apotheosis | the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax | 7 | |
| 9675920612 | Blank verse | a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 8 | |
| 9675925028 | Heroic Couplet | a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man | 9 | |
| 9675927960 | Digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 10 | |
| 9675933901 | Dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true | 11 | |
| 9675936846 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 12 | |
| 9675961085 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 13 | |
| 9675965438 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 14 | |
| 9675991798 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. | 15 | |
| 9676009410 | Ironic | happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this | 16 | |
| 9676027411 | Main Verb | the verb in a main clause | 17 | |
| 9676032801 | Malapropism | the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect | 18 | |
| 9676062375 | Maxim | a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct | 19 | |
| 9676068591 | Metaphor | -a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable -a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract. | 20 | |
| 9676089649 | meter | The highly organized rhythm characteristic of verse; the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. (See iambic pentameter.) | 21 | |
| 9676104989 | monologue | a long and typically tedious speech by one person during a conversation | 22 | |
| 9676109199 | Narrative | a story that you write or tell to someone, usually in great detail. A narrative can be a work of poetry or prose, or even song, theater, or dance | 23 | |
| 9676124886 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 24 | |
| 9676135648 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow | 25 | |
| 9676243004 | Pastoral | a literary work (such as a poem or play) dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life. | 26 | |
| 9676305735 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 27 | |
| 9676312941 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 28 | |
| 9676384752 | Rhetorical question | a question that you ask without expecting an answer | 29 | |
| 9676437493 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 30 | |
| 9676446216 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 31 | |
| 9676453027 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 32 |