AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

10577716739	Allegory	A form of extended metaphor in which the objects, persons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself.	0
10577716740	Alliteration	The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words.	1
10577716741	Allusion	A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object.	2
10577716742	Anachronism	assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence	3
10577716743	Analogy	A comparison of two things that are alike in certain aspects. Often used to use something familiar to explain the unfamiliar.	4
10577716744	Antithesis	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is the balancing of one term against another.	5
10577716745	Archetype	An image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore.	6
10577716746	Asyndeton	Omission of connecting words in a list.	7
10577716747	Anaphora	The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines.	8
10577716748	Apostrophe	The speaker addresses a dead (or absent) person or an abstraction or inanimate object-it provides the speaker an opportunity to think aloud.	9
10825174313	Verse	Metrical language; the opposite of prose	10
10825174314	Meter	The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry.	11
10825174315	Prose	the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure; not poetry.	12
10825174316	Structure	internal organization of a poem's content	13
10825174317	Form	the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content	14
10825174318	Blank verse	unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter	15
10825174319	Free verse	Nonmetrical poetry that does not follow established norms.	16
10825174320	Characterization	the creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike	17
10825174321	Direct characterization	the writer tells the reader what the character is like	18
10825174322	Indirect characterization	The writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue and/or actions or through other characters.	19
10825174323	Coloquialism	An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing.	20
10825174324	Satire	A mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn.	21
10825174325	Simile	A figure of speech in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed, most often introduced by words such as like, as, compare, liken, resemble, etc.	22
10825174326	Understatement	To represent with restraint; to say less than is meant.	23