AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

13885948050	enjambment	the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next	0
13885948051	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	1
13885948052	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	2
13885948053	apostrophe	an address or invocation to something that is inanimate	3
13885948054	caesura	a pause near the middle of a line.	4
13885948055	colloquial	Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing; vernacular	5
13885948056	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	6
13885948057	elegy	a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation	7
13885948058	iambic	a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	8
13885948059	consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels	9
13885948060	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	10
13885948061	juxtaposition	the location of one thing as being adjacent with another; this placement of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer	11
13885948062	quatrain	a poetic stanza of four lines	12
13885948063	solioquy	a monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself	13
13885948064	Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet	14
13885948065	Petrachan sonnet	a sonnet form divided into an octave and a sestet; also called an Italian sonnet	15
13885948066	sestina	a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet; the same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time	16
13885948067	terza rima	a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next	17
13885948068	adage	A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language.	18
13885948069	ambiguity	A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation.	19
13885948070	anachronism	A person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set.	20
13885948071	aphorism	A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment.	21
13885948072	catharsis	A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror or a dramatic tragedy.	22
13885948073	harangue	A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade.	23
13885948074	hegemony	a dominant cultural trend	24
13885948075	idyll	A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place.	25
13885948076	kenning	a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship.	26
13885948077	lampoon	A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation.	27
13885948078	litotes	A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity.	28
13885948079	non sequitur	A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.	29
13885948080	picaresque novel	An episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. Ex: Don Quixote, Moll Flanders, Lazarillo de Tormes	30