AP Literature Terms 1 Flashcards
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| 7419552161 | Illusion | A reference to history, the Bible, art, or literature | 0 | |
| 7419552162 | Appositive | A noun or pronoun which explains a noun or pronoun | 1 | |
| 7419552163 | Allegory | A tale, inverse, or prose in which the characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities | 2 | |
| 7419552164 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial constants | 3 | |
| 7419552165 | Analogy | A comparison between two objects for a purpose of showing similarities | 4 | |
| 7419552166 | Anapest | Poetic foot of two unstressed and one stressed | 5 | |
| 7419552167 | Antagonist | The person/thing who faces the protagonist and creates a conflict | 6 | |
| 7419552168 | Antithesis | Balancing of two contrasting thoughts, words, or phrases | 7 | |
| 7419552169 | Apostrophe | Poetic device in which the writer directly addresses a person, place, or thing as if it were present (ex. Hamlet antagonist addresses England) | 8 | |
| 7435811335 | Aside | A speech in a play intended for the audience and not for the characters | 9 | |
| 7435811336 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 7435811337 | Ballad | A poem that tells a story; comes in four line stanzas where the second and fourth lines rhyme (literary and folk) | 11 | |
| 7435811338 | Caesura | A break or pause in a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 7435811339 | Canto | Section or division of a poem | 13 | |
| 7435811340 | Blank verse | Poetic lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter | 14 |