AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

54933265	abstract	not concrete	0
54933266	academic	dry and theoretical writing	1
54933267	bombastic	ostentatiously lofty in style	2
54933268	burlesque	make a parody of	3
54933269	parody	a humorous imitation of a serious work	4
54933270	decorum	propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners	5
54933271	lament	passionate grief	6
54933272	lampoon	sarcasm; taunting harshly	7
54933273	lyric	expressing the poet's emotions and feelings; musical and melodious	8
54933274	objectivity	treat subject without bias or prejudice	9
54933275	subjectivity	treat something WITH bias or prejudice	10
54933276	archaism	using old language	11
54933277	anecdotal	use short story to prove a point	12
54933278	gothic	style of 12th - 15th century in Europe; creepy, scary, haunted	13
54933279	farce	idiotic humor	14
54933280	elegiac	expressing sorrow or lamentation	15
54933281	pastoral	having a simple, rural life	16
54933282	ballad	light or simple song that tells a story	17
54933283	apostrophe	talking to something that can't talk back	18
54933284	chorus	a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play	19
54933285	melodrama	sensational and highly emotional behavior or language in a play (soap opera)	20
54933286	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	21
54933287	comedy	light and humorous stories that end well	22
54933288	soliloquy	speech made to oneself when alone	23
54933289	monologue	long speech by one character	24
54933290	aside	heard by audience but not other characters	25
54933291	3rd Person Omniscient	when you know all thoughts and feelings of all characters	26
54933292	first person	narrator tells the story from their point of view	27
54933293	aphorism	short witty statement about life	28
54933294	stock characters	a stereotypical character, one we are familiar with	29
54933295	tragic flaw	The character trait that brings about the downfall of the protagonist	30
54933296	catharsis	a cleansing of emotions	31
54933297	hubris	exaggerated or extreme pride; main flaw	32
54933298	tragic hero	character who has a error of judgement or fatal flaw	33
54933299	nemesis	hero's arch enemy that keeps coming back	34
54933300	foil	secondary character who highlights the qualities of the main characters	35
54933301	antihero	hero who lacks heroic qualities	36
54933302	3rd Person Objective	the story is just told. the reader doesn't know what the chracters are thinking	37
54933303	3rd Person Limited	the narrator is limited to the thoughts and feelings of one character	38
54933304	antagonist	the force against the protagonist in the story; can be anything	39
54933305	protagonist	the main character	40
54933306	anticlimax	story builds, nothing really happens	41
54933307	canto	large section or division of poetry	42
54933308	personification	giving human FORM to inanimate objects	43
54933309	Anthropomorphism	giving human CHARACTERISTICS to inanimate objects	44
54933310	analogy	comparison	45
54933311	anachronsim	chronologically out of place	46
54933312	Stream of Consciousness	a style of writing in which the thoughts and feelings of the writer or narrator are recorded as they occur	47
54933313	allusion	reference author expects you to get	48
54933314	assonance	same VOWEL sounds	49
54933315	consonance	same CONSONANTS sound	50
54933316	alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	51
54933317	allegory	everything stands for something	52
54933318	situational irony	an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	53
54933319	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	54
54933320	verbal irony	say one thing, mean another; sarcasm	55
54933321	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	56
54933322	epitaph	brief literary piece about a dead person	57
54933323	mock epic	take something minor, make it a big deal	58
54933324	epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds; very serious	59
54933325	dramatic monologue	poem in which the speaker is addressing someone whom we don't hear	60
54933326	doggeral	trivial and inferior verse; bad poetry	61
54933327	dirge	song of the dead	62
54933328	syntax	sentence structure	63
54933329	diction	how you use and pick words	64
54933330	couplet	two lines that rhyme together	65
54933331	denotation	dictionary meaning	66
54933332	connotation	feeling associated with a word	67
54933333	onomatopoeia	sounds like the sound it makes	68
54933334	euphony	all the sounds come together	69
54933335	dissonance	inharmonious, harsh sound	70
54933336	cacophony	harsh discordance of sounds	71
54933337	mixed metaphor	two metaphors put together	72
54933338	controlling metaphor	comparison that controls the piece; comes up a lot	73
54933339	simile	comparison using like or as	74
54933340	metaphor	comparison NOT using like or as	75
54933341	metaphysical conceit	comparing two things; one is physical one is spiritual	76
54933342	conceit	comparing two really unlike things	77
54933343	coinage	coining a phrase	78
54933344	neologism	a newly invented word or phrase	79
54933345	colloquialism	an informal or conversational use of language	80
54933346	classic	ancient Greece or Rome; something that sets the standard	81
54933347	caricature	an exaggerated portrayal of one's features	82
54933348	cadence	rhythmic sound in a piece of literature	83
55229379	bathos	insincere pathos	84
55229380	pathos	appealing to emotion	85
55229381	refrain	repeat same line or phrase	86
55229382	plaint	expressing grief	87
55229383	prelude	preliminary to an action	88
55229384	parenthetical phrase	phrase in which you add extra information	89
55229385	anaphora	repetition at beginning of lines with different endings	90
55229386	persona	the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing	91
55229387	parallelism	grammatically equal	92
55229388	paradox	statement that on the surface contradicts itself, but makes sense	93
55229389	parable	short, allegorable story used to prove a moral lesson	94
55229390	metonym / synecdoche	when a part is used for a whole	95
55229391	oxymoron	two words that contradict each other and are put together	96
55229392	inversion	reversal of natural word order	97
55229393	interior monologue	a character gives its internal thoughts	98
55229394	in media res	in the middle of the action	99
55229395	hyperbole	obvious exaggeration	100
55229396	genre	class or category of music, art, etc	101
55229397	free verse	no set meter, does not rhyme	102
55229398	foreshadowing	hints, clues of what is to come	103
55229399	foot	set pattern of of stressed and unstressed syllables	104
55229400	masculine rhyme	one rhyming syllable	105
55229401	feminine rhyme	2 rhyming syllables	106
55229402	euphemism	mild expression takes the place of a harsh reality	107
55229403	fallacy	faulty reasoning; deceptive thoughts	108
55229404	antithesis	usually contrasting statements	109
55229405	ambivalent	uncertain or wavery feelings toward somethings	110
55229406	ambiguity	unclear meaning	111
55372159	enjambment	the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next	112
55372160	juxtaposition	2 things next to each other, to make a point	113
55372161	aesthetic	appealing to the senses, changes over time and culture, etc	114
55372162	zeugma	verb (usually) that modifies 2 different words differently	115
55372163	utopia	ideal place, paradise (literally means nowhere)	116
55372164	truism	self-evident, obvious truth	117
55372165	travesty	grotesque imitation	118
55372166	thesis	main idea	119
55372167	symbolism	when a thing represents more than just itself	120
55372168	suspenion of disbelief	willingness to suspend criticism and believe the unbelievable for the sake of enjoyment	121
55372169	stanza	small division of poetry; paragraph	122
55372170	satire	to make fun of something in order to change/fix it	123
55372171	rhapsody	passionate expression	124
55372172	rhetorical question	does NOT require an answer because the answer is obvious	125
55372173	requiem	song of the dead; dirge-like song	126
55372174	pun	play on words	127

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