5383433341 | abstract | complex style no concrete details | 0 | |
5383438225 | accent | stressed portions of a word | 1 | |
5383439981 | allegory | story with a lot of symbolic meaning outside of the story itself | 2 | |
5383443094 | alliteration | repeating the initial consonant sound | 3 | |
5383447687 | allusion | referencing another book or something from pop culture | 4 | |
5383450054 | anachronism | something from outside of its time period | 5 | |
5383459407 | analogy | a comparison using two symbolic parts | 6 | |
5383464360 | anecdote | short story | 7 | |
5383466291 | antecedent | word that a pronoun is referring to in a sentence | 8 | |
5383479982 | anthropomorphism | non human things are given human characteristics | 9 | |
5383482453 | anti-climax | there is a huge build up to a really boring event | 10 | |
5383491533 | antihero | a protagonist who has no good qualities like a hero | 11 | |
5383494295 | aphorism | short and witty saying | 12 | |
5383496142 | apostrophe | when a speaker talks directly to a nonhuman | 13 | |
5383500504 | archaism | using old fashioned language out of context on purpose | 14 | |
5383503028 | aside | speech made by a character to the audience | 15 | |
5383505856 | assonance | repeated use of vowel sounds | 16 | |
5383508544 | bathos, pathos | pathos is when a scene evokes emotion like pity, and bathos is when its overdramatic | 17 | |
5383532209 | black humor | using disturbing themes in comedy | 18 | |
5383535591 | cacophony | using harsh awkward sounds on purpose | 19 | |
5383543975 | caricature | portrait that exaggerates part of their personality | 20 | |
5383546033 | catharsis | feeling the emotions of the characters | 21 | |
5383554620 | chorus | group of people in a play who comment on the play | 22 | |
5383556934 | classic | typical, accepted masterpiece | 23 | |
5383558961 | coinage (neologism) | new word or slang | 24 | |
5383561149 | colloquialism | word or phrase used in everyday language that isn't part of the dictionary | 25 | |
5383569412 | connotation, denotation | denotation is the literal meaning of a word, and connotation is the feeling of the words | 26 | |
5383574677 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, can be anywhere in the word | 27 | |
5383576891 | couplet | pair of lines in a poem that end in a rhyme | 28 |
AP LITERATURE VOCAB TERMS Flashcards
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