AP Literature Fundamental Terms Flashcards

13266782756	Active voice	The subject of the sentence performs the action	0
13266782824	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
13266788274	Alliteration	the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence or a line of poetry.	2
13266790594	Allusion	a reference to another person, another historical event, another work, and the like.	3
13418724776	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	4
13266797917	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	5
13266797918	Aphorism	a brief statement of opinion or elemental truth.	6
13266803310	Apostrophe	direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some power.	7
13327113974	Assonance	repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines.	8
13327113975	Blank Verse	any verse that isn't rhymed	9
13327120590	Caesura	a pause in a line of poetry in order to make the meaning clear or to follow the natural rhythm of speech.	10
13327120591	Connotation	the associations or moods attached to a word.	11
13327126947	Consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel.	12
13327126948	Couplet	a pair of rhymed lines.	13
13327132368	Denotation	the dictionary definition of a word.	14
13327132369	Dialect	a regional speech pattern.	15
13327142690	Diction	word choice; the specific words an author uses in his or her writing.	16
13327142691	Elegy	a formal meditative poem or lament for the dead.	17
13327147806	Ellipses	Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted	18
13327147861	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	19
13327154467	Euphemism	to use an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some.	20
13327154468	Foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	21
13327159875	Free Verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter	22
13327165954	Hyperbole	exaggeration of an event or feeling	23
13327165955	Imagery	language that appeals to one or another of the five senses	24
13327168839	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	25
13327168840	Jargon	a pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people.	26
13327176335	Juxstaposition	the placement of one idea next to its opposite to make it more dramatic	27
13327179361	Lyric	any poem in which a speaker expresses intensely personal emotion or thoughts.	28
13327179362	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	29
13327182807	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	30
13327182808	Meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or the units of stressed patterns.	31
13327187585	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	32
13327187586	Metric Line	A line named according to the number of feet composing it	33
13327191413	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	34
13327191414	Paradox	a figure of speech that seeks to create mental ambiguity, which then forces the reader to pause and seek clarity	35
13327195280	Parllelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clause	36
13327198549	Passive Voice	The subject of the sentence receives the action.	37
13327198550	Pastoral	a reference to or a description of simple country life.	38
13327203020	Personification	giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.	39
13327203095	Ploce	Repeating a word within the same line or clause.	40
13327210965	Point of View	the perspective from which the writer chooses to tell his or her story.	41
13327211041	Pun	a play on words used to create humor or comic relief.	42
13327216070	Refrain	a line, part of a line, or group of lines repeated in the course of a poem, sometimes with slight changes	43
13327216071	Repetition	the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis.	44
13327224163	Rhyme	the echo or imitation of a sound.	45
13327224164	Rhythm	the sense of movement attributable to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.	46
13327228759	Satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices	47
13327228760	Shift	a change in setting, tone, or speakers.	48
13327233048	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	49
13327240174	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	50
13327245444	Sonnet	a fixed firm of fourteen lines, normally in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types.	51
13327250555	Stanza	a group of lines that forms on division of a poem.	52
13327250556	Symbol	an object that signifies something greater than itself.	53
13327254089	Synechdote	using one part of an object to represent the entire object	54
13327254264	Theme	an insight into life conveyed by a poem or story.	55
13327261040	Verse	lines of poetry or metrical language in general, in contrast to prose.	56
13327261041	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	57