AP Spanish Literary Terms

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el culteranismo
el culteranismo
Gongorism
el conceptismo
el conceptismo
conceptism
la sinestesia
la sinestesia
synesthesia
la cacofonía
la cacofonía
cacophony
el patetismo
el patetismo
pathos
la catarsis
la catarsis
catharsis
la silva
la silva
silva
el hiato
el hiato
hiatus
la diéresis
la diéresis
dieresis
la parábola
la parábola
parable
el narratario
el narratario
narratee
fidedigno
fidedigno
reliable
epistolar
epistolar
epistolary
la sátira
la sátira
satire
el leitmotiv
el leitmotiv
leitmotiv
el desdoblamiento
el desdoblamiento
splitting
la caricatura
la caricatura
caricature
la apología
la apología
eulogy
el serventesio
el serventesio
ABAB quatrain
el ritmo
rhythm
la oda
ode
la octava
octave
el retruécano
pun
el metro
meter
el hemistiquio
hemistich
la alegoría
allegory
el tono
tone
el tema
theme
el soneto
sonnet
la sinécdoque
synecdoche
el símil
simile
el símbolo
symbol
el realismo mágico
magic realism
la prefiguración
foreshadowing
la parodia
parody
el pareado
rhyming couplet
la paradoja
paradox
la onomatopeya
onomatopoeia
la metonimia
metonymy
la metáfora
metaphor
el hipérbaton
hyperbaton
la exposición
exposition
la estrofa
stanza
el estribillo
refrain
el epíteto
epithet
la epopeya
epic poem
el encabalgamiento
enjambment
la elipsis
ellipsis
el clímax
climax
la cesura
caesura
carpe diem
seize the day
el arquetipo
archetype
el apóstrofe
apostrophe
el aparte
aside
la antítesis
antithesis
la anáfora
anaphora
la aliteración
alliteration
la prosopopeya
personification
hiperbólico
hyperbolic
la hipérbole
hyperbole
octosílabo
octosyllabic
la sílaba
syllable
esdrújulo
stressed on the third-to-last syllable
agudo
stressed on the last syllable
la llana
word stressed on the second-to-last syllable
la sinalefa
synalepha
la sinéresis
syneresis
el diptongo
diphthong
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