AP Literature Terms Flashcards

10572160504	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	0
10572162085	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
11163685331	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	2
11163689637	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	3
11163693072	Antithesis	Direct opposite	4
10572169607	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	5
10572164004	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	6
11163702768	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	7
11163705787	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	8
10572175494	Conceit	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	9
11163714097	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	10
10359192721	Diction	word choice	11
11163718585	Dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	12
11163720676	Ethos	credibility	13
11207171530	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	14
10572131885	figurative language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.	15
10572166225	Foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	16
10572173486	Hyperbole	exaggeration	17
10572123108	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	18
10572144521	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	19
11207206818	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	20
11207212209	Logos	Appeal to logic	21
10572135235	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	22
11207226298	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	23
11207234910	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	24
10572164005	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	25
10572149613	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	26
10572142672	Paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	27
10572151392	parallel construction	successive sentences or phrases follow the same pattern of wording in order to emphasize and idea	28
11207276416	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	29
10572139656	Personification	the attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	30
11207290701	Perspective	point of view	31
11207297888	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	32
10572169606	Repetition	Repeating a word, phrase, or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect	33
10572155142	Rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	34
10572158504	Rhythm	A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.	35
10572137747	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	36
11207325694	Situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	37
10572126061	Symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract	38
11207336552	Syndeton	phrase whose parts are joined by a conjunction	39
11207339550	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	40
10572123107	Syntax	Sentence structure	41
10572160505	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	42