AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

9688231754	Allegory	A work that functions on a symbollic level.	0
9688234954	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds.	1
9848127437	Allusion	A reference contained in a work.	2
9848129067	Apostrophe	Direct address in poetry.	3
9848131134	Aside	Words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience.	4
9848133498	Aubade	A love poem set at dawn that says goodbye to a beloved.	5
9848135612	Ballad	A simple narrative poem, incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains.	6
9848139024	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter. The form of most Shakespeare's plays.	7
9848162057	Catharsis	According to Aristotle, the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences.	8
9848164062	Caesura	A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning.	9
9848170192	Cacophony	Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work.	10
9848172787	Connotation	The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.	11
9848177738	Convention	A traditional aspect of literary work such as a soliloquy or a tragic hero.	12
9848180845	Couplet	Two lines of rhyming poetry used to stress an important idea or to conclude a scene.	13
9848185045	Dactyl	A foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.	14
9848194458	Denotation	The literal or dictionary meaning of a word.	15
9848198099	Diction	The author's choice of words.	16
9848199496	Dramatic Monologue	A type of poem that presents a conversation between a speaker and an implied listener.	17
9848202978	Elegy	A poem that laments the dead or a loss.	18
9848204312	Enjambment	A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. Helps develop coherence and move the poem along.	19
9848209203	Epigram	A brief witty Poem.	20
9848215660	Euphony	The pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work.	21
9848220971	Fable	A simple, symbolic story usually employing animals as characters.	22
9848222758	Foot	A metrical unit in poetry; a syllabic measure of a line: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, and spondee.	23
9848227076	Free verse	Poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme.	24
9848229501	Iamb	A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one.	25
9848234745	Idyll	Atype of lyric poetry which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.	26
9848238955	Lyric poetry	A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity.	27
9848242143	Magical realism	A type of poetry that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world.	28
9848248272	Metaphysical Poetry	Poems that explore highly complex philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox.	29
9848255275	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea.	30
9848256837	Motif	The repetition of variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters.	31
9848262341	Octave	An eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet.	32
9848267193	Ode	A formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject.	33
9848273765	Parable	A story that operates on more than one level, usually to teach a moral lesson.	34
9848277463	Parallel plot	A second story that mimics and reinforces the main plot.	35
9848279804	Pathos	The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from an audience.	36
9848285738	Romanticism	A style or movement of literature that has its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape.	37
9848289809	Sestet	A sex-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan Sonnet.	38
9848292956	Sestina	A highly stuctured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. Depends on the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of the six stanzas.	39
9848300460	Soliloquy	A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience.	40
9848302872	Spondee	A poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables.	41
9848313229	Synecdoche	A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole.	42
9848317584	Villanelle	A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout.	43