Literary terms AP LIterature Flashcards

13625171171	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	0
13625172207	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
13625172965	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	2
13625174058	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	3
13625174943	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	4
13625175733	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	5
13625176661	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	6
13625176662	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	7
13625178333	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story	8
13625178334	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	9
13625180669	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	10
13625181827	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	11
13625185463	Chiamsus	"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country". (John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address) "All for once and for all." (The Three Musketeers) "If you fail to plan you plan to fail"	12
13625186172	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	13
13625187800	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	14
13625188463	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	15
13625188464	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	16
13625189176	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	17
13625192409	Epistolary novel	a novel written as a series of documents	18
13625194269	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	19
13625194270	Euphony	beautiful sound	20
13625195557	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	21
13625196450	Hyberbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	22
13625198537	In Medias res	in the middle of things	23
13625200664	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	24
13625201871	Lyric poetry	A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings	25
13625201872	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	26
13625202846	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	27
13625203644	Octave	8 line stanza	28
13625204355	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	29
13625205480	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	30
13625205481	Panegyric	an expression of praise	31
13625206172	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	32
13625207742	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	33
13625208374	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	34
13625209758	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	35
13625210530	Sestet	six line stanza	36
13625210531	Sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.	37
13625211328	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	38
13625212414	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	39
13625213503	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	40
13625213504	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	41
13625214490	Zuegma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	42