AP Lit Flashcards

13817680195	Apostrophe	This occurs when a character or speaker calls out to a person (either absent or dead) or inanimate object as if it could respond.	0
13817680267	Anecdote	A short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention.	1
13817680217	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	2
13817680213	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem.	3
13817680210	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	4
13817680189	antithesis	Direct opposite	5
13821160024	asyndeton	a series of words separated by commas	6
13817680266	Ambiguity	open to more than one interpretation	7
13817680215	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	8
13817680186	assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	9
13817680185	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	10
13817680273	Convention	An understanding between a reader and a writer about certain details of a story that does not need to be explained	11
13817680207	Contemporary	free verse, written so ordinary reader can understand, after 1920's, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Bishop	12
13817680187	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds shush wish cushion squash	13
13817680221	catharsis	release of emotions	14
13817680219	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds because cause	15
13817680271	Conceit	An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different.	16
13817680204	Confessional	personal experience, 1950's, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Mark Doty	17
13817680196	caesura	a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. Often is signified with a comma or period.	18
13817680228	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	19
13817680225	denouement	final outcome of the story	20
13817680224	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	21
13817680176	Elegy	a sad or mournful poem	22
13817680198	enjambment	When a thought in poetry does not stop at the end of a line break; it merely continues on in the following line.	23
13817680277	Epistolary	Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another.	24
13817680279	Euphemism	The act of substituting a harsh, blunt, or offensive comment for a more politically accepted or positive one	25
13817680278	Epithet	A word or phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character. Ex: Alexander the Great.	26
13817680276	Epic	A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society	27
13817680234	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	28
13821140300	epistrophe	repetition of a word at the end of successive lines	29
13817680233	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	30
13817680173	english (shakespearean) sonnet	14 lines, 3 stanzas of 4 lines, 2 line stanza at end that rhymes	31
13817680208	Free Verse	without rhyme and rhythm, Walt Whitman	32
13817680280	Hubris	used in Greek tragedies, refers to excessive pride that usually leads to a hero's downfall	33
13817680282	In medias res	A story that begins in the middle of things	34
13817680174	italian (petrarchan) sonnet	14 line, iambic pentameter, flexible rhyme scheme, 8 lines + 6 lines	35
13817680191	juxtaposition	placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast	36
13817680181	laudatory	expressing praise	37
13817680285	Litotes	Litotes is the opposite of hyperbole. Examples: "Not a bad idea," "Not many," "It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain"	38
13817680178	Lyrical poem	focuses on individual and thoughts/feelings	39
13817680192	metonymy	Associating an object with another word very similar to it calling someone a scrooge because of their attitude	40
13817680188	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	41
13817680190	oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')	42
13817680289	Oblique Ryhme	Imperfect rhyme scheme	43
13817680175	ode	usually praising/celebrating something	44
13817680184	profundity	deep insight and knowledge	45
13817680291	Parable	A simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson	46
13817680248	paradox	contradiction	47
13817680193	polysyndenton	The use of many conjunctions to slow the pace	48
13817680180	refrains	a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout poem	49
13817680205	Romantic	emotional, self-expression, individual feeling, religious response to nature, end of 18th century, Elizabeth Barret Browning, William Wordsworth, William Blake	50
13817680294	Rhetoric	From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.	51
13817680194	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole the white house represents government	52
13817680172	sestina	663	53
13817680183	sublimity	transcends greatness	54
13817680182	surreptitiously	secretive	55
13817680209	slant rhyme	consonant rhyme near and bear	56
13817680253	sestet	6 line stanza	57
13817680255	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	58
13817680260	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	59
13817680206	Transcendentalist	stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience, 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman	60
13817680265	vilanelle	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.	61