AP Literature Terms Flashcards

10553042462	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	0
10553042463	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
10555009852	Ambiguity	An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.	2
10555016380	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	3
10555018260	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person	4
10555104599	Aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	5
10555107490	Assonance	Repeating of similar vowel sounds	6
10555109376	Antithesis	Opposite	7
10555112056	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	8
10555112057	Asyndeton	Absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	9
10555115073	Conciet	extended metaphor, continues to appear throughout entire work	10
10555115074	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	11
10555117136	cacophony	harsh sounds	12
10555117137	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	13
10555119021	Conosance	Repetition of consonant sounds	14
10555119022	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing	15
10555121415	Chaismus	reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses	16
10555121416	Denotation	dictionary definition	17
10555123153	Didadic	instructive	18
10555124813	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	19