AP Literature Multiple Choice Terms Flashcards

7784551779	allegory	Story in which the characters and things have another meaning	0
7784558458	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings that a literal work can have	1
7784562095	Apostrophe	Direct Address to someone that isn't there	2
7784573904	Connotation	What is implied of a word or phrase, the emotion it gives	3
7784587748	Convention	Device of style or subject matter that is used alot	4
7784591530	Denotation	Literal meaning of a word or phrase	5
7784596053	Didactic	explicitly instructive	6
7784602390	Digression	inclusion of material unrelated to subject	7
7784605080	epigram	pithy saying, often employing contrast	8
7784613553	euphemism	figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness	9
7784621547	grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities	10
7784630211	hyperbole	Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement	11
7784633424	Jargon	Language of profession group	12
7784636496	literal	precise meaning	13
7784640137	lyrical	songlike	14
7784641952	oxymoron	juxtaposition of opposites	15
7784644940	parable	story that suggests a principle to answer a question	16
7784650676	Paradox	a statement seems to contradict itself but is true	17
7784655681	Parody	composition imitates style of another	18
7784661904	Personification	Figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics	19
7784919671	Reliability	A quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can place his trust	20
7784930299	Rhetorical Question	a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply	21
7784937572	soliloquy	A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.	22
7784964639	stereotype	A conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea	23
7784969560	syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them	24
7784989741	Thesis	The theme, meaning, or position that a writer endeavors to prove or support	25
7784995209	alliteration	The repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds, normally a the beginning of words	26
7785010236	assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	27
7785013335	Ballad meter	a four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet	28
7785022459	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	29
7785025801	dactyl	A metrical foot of three syllables, including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables	30
7785041687	End-stopped	a line with a pause at the end	31
7785045605	free verse	Poetry that is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical	32
7785059288	heroic couplet	Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, usually containing a complete thought in the two-line unit	33
7785080980	Hexameter	A line containing six feet	34
7785083657	iamb	A two- syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable	35
7785091242	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	36
7785097044	onomatopoeia	use of words whose very sound suggests their actual meaning	37
7785102375	Pentameter	a line containing five feet	38
7785107371	Rhyme royal	a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc	39
7785113137	sonnet	A poem written in iambic pentameter composed of 14 lines	40
7785120131	stanza	a repeated grouping of three or more lines, usually with the same meter and rhyme scheme	41
7785126064	terza rima	a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc	42
7785130437	tetrameter	a line of four feet	43
7785134217	Antecedent	that which has gone before, especially the word or phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers	44
7785140001	clause	a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not form a complete sentence	45
7785146872	Ellipsis	A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction yet which is still understandable	46
7785163261	imperative	the mood of a verb that gives an order	47
7785621017	modify	to restrict or limit in meaning.	48
7785625064	parallel structure	A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph	49
7785632523	periodic sentence	Sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end	50
7785635771	syntax	structure of a sentence	51