AP Literature Terms (Part 1) Flashcards

10940920775	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself	0
10940928529	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	1
10940931609	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	2
10940934844	Anapest	unstressed, unstressed, stressed	3
10940949917	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	4
10940969579	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	5
10940978637	Aside	A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	6
10940982036	Aubade	A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn	7
10940985655	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	8
10940994451	Blank verse	Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter	9
10941003033	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	10
10941006194	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line	11
10941022950	Catharsis	A release of emotional tension	12
10941027614	Character	A person in a story	13
10941030418	Climax	The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex	14
10941037785	comic relief	A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood	15
10941041005	conflict	A struggle between opposing forces	16
10941045139	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	17
10941048592	Convention	A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude (ex. generally a chorus in Greek tragedies)	18
10941051901	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	19
10941055072	Dactyl	stressed, unstressed, unstressed	20
10941089985	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	21
10941093729	Denouement	An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	22
10941096769	Deus ex machina	The use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem	23
10941105233	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	24
10941109189	Dramatic monologue	When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	25
10941113856	Elegy	A sad or mournful poem	26
10941124590	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next	27