AP English Literature Terminology #1 Flashcards

16138931908	Allusion	a set of abstract ideas (or some philosophical statement or argument) is personified through human characters and specific events in which they engage.	0
16138952842	anaphora	the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs	1
16138984648	antithesis	contradictory ideas, words, or clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure	2
16139004932	apostrophe	a direct address to an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	3
16139019463	blank verse	lines of iambic pentameter, which of all verse forms sounds most like natural speech	4
16139038505	connotation	the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning; may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes	5
16139051391	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	6
16139057566	epithet	the use of a single-word adjective linked to a person or thing to describe a specific quality associated with it	7
16139071249	euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts	8
16139081650	free verse	poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form but is characterized by irregularity in the length of the lines and a lack of a regular metrical pattern and rhyme	9
16139132062	imagery	language that appeals to one of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.)	10
16139138421	juxtaposition	placing dissimilar items, description, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison	11
16139194940	metaphor	an implicit comparison is made between two things that are essentially dissimilar	12
16139205829	metonymy	the name of one thing used to represent something else with which it is associated	13
16139222285	oxymoron	a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction	14
16139230859	paradox	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	15
16139248666	parallelism	the repetition within a sentence (or several sentences within the same paragraph) of the same type of grammatical unit	16
16139278511	pun	using one word to suggest two different meanings	17
16139281525	simile	the use of like or as to compare two different things and to express that they're similar or share a certain quality	18
16139491428	synecdoche	a concrete, complex entity is represented by a single part (uses one part to refer to a more complex concrete whole	19