AP English Literature Vocab #6 Flashcards
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| 5354662698 | Orator | Public speaker | 0 | |
| 5354664109 | Red herring | Misleading information - trick | 1 | |
| 5354665353 | Provocative | Stimulates strong response | 2 | |
| 5354665354 | Archetype | Model narrative | 3 | |
| 5354665355 | Precocious | Talents at an early age | 4 | |
| 5354667079 | Aside | Character saying something to the audience (shows intent of the character) | 5 | |
| 5354668296 | Parody | Comical imitation - satire/narrative caricature | 6 | |
| 5354670989 | Bildungsroman | Coming of age story (ex: to kill a mockingbird) - "journey to spiritual oneness" | 7 | |
| 5354673278 | Didactic | Instructional | 8 | |
| 5354673279 | Flashback | Jump to an earlier time | 9 | |
| 5354674636 | Blazon | Italian poem that catalogs the physical attributes of a beloved | 10 | |
| 5354676065 | Cacophony | Harsh sounding noise | 11 | |
| 5354676066 | Hamartia | The tragic error of a character | 12 | |
| 5354678084 | Satire | Literature that mocks and ridicules (ex: parody, caricature) | 13 | |
| 5354680272 | Canon | Accepted set of texts (ex: bible) | 14 |
AP Literature Terms Flashcards
The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test
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| 6418835802 | Abstract | Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points. | 0 | |
| 6418835803 | Academic | Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. | 1 | |
| 6418835804 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. | 2 | |
| 6418835805 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste. | 3 | |
| 6418835806 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 4 | |
| 6418835807 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 5 | |
| 6418835808 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure. | 6 | |
| 6418835809 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 7 | |
| 6418835810 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 8 | |
| 6418835811 | Anecdote | A Short Narrative | 9 | |
| 6418835812 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | 10 | |
| 6418835813 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 11 | |
| 6418835814 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 12 | |
| 6418835815 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 13 | |
| 6418835816 | Aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. | 14 | |
| 6418835817 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. | 15 | |
| 6418835818 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 16 | |
| 6418835819 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 17 | |
| 6418835820 | Aspect | A trait or characteristic | 18 | |
| 6418835821 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul." | 19 | |
| 6418835822 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 20 | |
| 6418835823 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality. | 21 | |
| 6418835824 | Bathos | Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker. | 22 | |
| 6418835825 | Pathos | Writing evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy. | 23 | |
| 6418835826 | Black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. | 24 | |
| 6418835827 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 25 | |
| 6418835828 | Burlesque | Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. | 26 | |
| 6418835829 | Cacophony | In poetry, using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. | 27 | |
| 6418835830 | Cadence | The beat or rhythm or poetry in a general sense. | 28 | |
| 6418835831 | Canto | The name for a section division in a long work of poetry. | 29 | |
| 6418835832 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 30 | |
| 6418835833 | Catharsis | Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play | 31 | |
| 6418835834 | Chorus | In Greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it. | 32 | |
| 6418835835 | Classic | Typical, or an accepted masterpiece. | 33 | |
| 6418835836 | Coinage (neologism) | A new word, usually one invented on the spot. | 34 | |
| 6418835837 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. | 35 | |
| 6418835838 | Complex (Dense) | Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words; subtleties and variations; multiple layers of interpretation; meaning both explicit and implicit | 36 | |
| 6418835839 | Conceit (Controlling Image) | A startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines. | 37 | |
| 6418835840 | Denotation | A word's literal meaning. | 38 | |
| 6418835841 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 39 | |
| 6418835842 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings) | 40 | |
| 6418835843 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 41 | |
| 6418835844 | Decorum | A character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance to the situation. | 42 | |
| 6418835845 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 43 | |
| 6418835846 | Syntax | The ordering and structuring of words. | 44 | |
| 6418835847 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 45 | |
| 6418835848 | Dissonance | Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds. | 46 | |
| 6418835849 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks. | 47 | |
| 6418835850 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 48 | |
| 6418835851 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | 49 | |
| 6418835852 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 50 | |
| 6418835853 | Elements | Basic techniques of each genre of literature | 51 | |
| 6418835854 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. | 52 | |
| 6418835855 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; typically deal with glorious or profound subject matter. | 53 | |
| 6418835856 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 54 | |
| 6418835857 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 55 | |
| 6418835858 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously. | 56 | |
| 6418835859 | Explicit | To say or write something directly and clearly. | 57 | |
| 6418835860 | Farce | Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy. | 58 | |
| 6418835861 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed. | 59 | |
| 6418835862 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 60 | |
| 6418835863 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 61 | |
| 6418835864 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. | 62 | |
| 6418835865 | Free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 63 | |
| 6418835866 | Genre | A sub-category of literature. | 64 | |
| 6418835867 | Gothic | A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night. | 65 | |
| 6418835868 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 66 | |
| 6418835869 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement. | 67 | |
| 6418835870 | Implicit | To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. | 68 | |
| 6418835871 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things," i.e. beginning an epic poem in the middle of the action. | 69 | |
| 6418835872 | Interior Monologue | Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head; tends to be coherent. | 70 | |
| 6418835873 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. | 71 | |
| 6418835874 | Irony | A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean; uses an undertow of meaning, sliding against the literal a la Jane Austen. | 72 | |
| 6418835875 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss. | 73 | |
| 6418835876 | Lampoon | A satire. | 74 | |
| 6418835877 | Loose sentence | A sentence that is complete before its end: Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh. | 75 | |
| 6418835878 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached it s final phrase: Despite Barbara's irritation at Jack, she loved him. | 76 | |
| 6418835879 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 77 | |
| 6418835880 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme) | 78 | |
| 6418835881 | Meaning | What makes sense, what's important. | 79 | |
| 6418835882 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure. | 80 | |
| 6418835883 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another. | 81 | |
| 6418835884 | Simile | A comparison or analogy that typically uses like or as. | 82 | |
| 6418835885 | Metonymy | A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with. | 83 | |
| 6418835886 | Nemesis | The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty. | 84 | |
| 6418835887 | Objectivity | Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view. | 85 | |
| 6418835888 | Subjectivity | A treatment of subject matter that uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses. | 86 | |
| 6418835889 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean | 87 | |
| 6418835890 | Opposition | A pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one. | 88 | |
| 6418835891 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. | 89 | |
| 6418835892 | Parable | A story that instructs. | 90 | |
| 6418835893 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. | 91 | |
| 6418835894 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect. | 92 | |
| 6418835895 | Paraphrase | To restate phrases and sentences in your own words. | 93 | |
| 6418835896 | Parenthetical phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail. | 94 | |
| 6418835897 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness. | 95 | |
| 6418835898 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds. | 96 | |
| 6418835899 | Persona | The narrator in a non first-person novel. | 97 | |
| 6418835900 | Personification | When an inanimate object takes on human shape. | 98 | |
| 6418835901 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow. | 99 | |
| 6418835902 | Point of View | The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented. | 100 | |
| 6418835903 | Omniscient | A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on. | 101 | |
| 6418835904 | Limited Omniscient | A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character. | 102 | |
| 6418835905 | Objective | A thrid person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. Does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks it. | 103 | |
| 6418835906 | First person | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view. | 104 | |
| 6418835907 | Stream of Consciousness | Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness. | 105 | |
| 6418835908 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 106 | |
| 6418835909 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play | 107 | |
| 6418835910 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 108 | |
| 6418835911 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 109 | |
| 6418835912 | Requiem | A song of prayer for the dead. | 110 | |
| 6418835913 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise. | 111 | |
| 6418835914 | Rhetorical question | A question that suggests an answer. | 112 | |
| 6418835915 | Satire | Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common. | 113 | |
| 6418835916 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts. | 114 | |
| 6418835917 | Stanza | A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose. | 115 | |
| 6418835918 | Stock characters | Standard or cliched character types. | 116 | |
| 6418835919 | Subjunctive Mood | A grammatical situation involving the words "if" and "were," setting up a hypothetical situation. | 117 | |
| 6418835920 | Suggest | To imply, infer, indicate. | 118 | |
| 6418835921 | Summary | A simple retelling of what you've just read. | 119 | |
| 6418835922 | Suspension of disbelief | The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination. | 120 | |
| 6418835923 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 121 | |
| 6418835924 | Technique | The methods and tools of the author. | 122 | |
| 6418835925 | Theme | The main idea of the overall work; the central idea. | 123 | |
| 6418835926 | Thesis | The main position of an argument. The central contention that will be supported. | 124 | |
| 6418835927 | Tragic flaw | In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise. | 125 | |
| 6418835928 | Travesty | A grotesque parody | 126 | |
| 6418835929 | Truism | A way-too obvious truth | 127 | |
| 6418835930 | Unreliable narrator | When the first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible | 128 | |
| 6418835931 | Utopia | An idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace. | 129 | |
| 6418835932 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. He closed the door and his heart on his lost love. | 130 | |
| 6418835933 | Ode | A poem in praise of something divine or noble | 131 | |
| 6418835934 | Iamb | A poetic foot -- light, heavy | 132 | |
| 6418835935 | Trochee | A poetic foot -- heavy, light | 133 | |
| 6418835936 | Spondee | A poetic foot -- heavy, heavy | 134 | |
| 6418835937 | Pyrrhie | A poetic foot -- light, light | 135 | |
| 6418835938 | Anapest | A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy | 136 | |
| 6418835939 | Ambibranch | A poetic foot -- light, heavy, light | 137 | |
| 6418835940 | Dactyl | A poetic foot -- heavy, light, light | 138 | |
| 6418835941 | Imperfect | A poetic foot -- single light or single heavy | 139 | |
| 6418835942 | Pentameter | A poetic line with five feet. | 140 | |
| 6418835943 | Tetrameter | A poetic line with four feet | 141 | |
| 6418835944 | Trimeter | A poetic line with three feet | 142 | |
| 6418835945 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 143 |
AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 10326971751 | adage (n) | a proverb, wise saying | 0 | |
| 10326971752 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 1 | |
| 10326971753 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 10326971754 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 3 | |
| 10326971755 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 4 | |
| 10326971756 | anachronism | something out of place in time | 5 | |
| 10326971757 | analogy (n) | words that draw comparisons and similarities | 6 | |
| 10326971758 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 7 | |
| 10326971759 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 8 | |
| 10326971760 | Anithesis | the exact opposite | 9 | |
| 10326971761 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 10 | |
| 10326971762 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 11 | |
| 10326971763 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 12 | |
| 10326971764 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 13 | |
| 10326971765 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 14 | |
| 10326971766 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 15 | |
| 10326971767 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 10326971768 | cacophony | harsh sounds | 17 | |
| 10326971769 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 18 | |
| 10326971770 | Catharsis | Emotional release | 19 | |
| 10326971771 | Conceit | Extended metaphor | 20 | |
| 10326971772 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 21 | |
| 10326971773 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 22 | |
| 10326971774 | denouement | an outcome; result | 23 | |
| 10326971775 | diction (n) | word choice | 24 | |
| 10326971776 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 25 | |
| 10326971777 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 26 | |
| 10326971778 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 27 | |
| 10326971779 | epigram (n) | a short, witty saying | 28 | |
| 10326971780 | euphony | beautiful sound | 29 | |
| 10326971781 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 30 | |
| 10326971782 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 31 | |
| 10326971783 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 32 | |
| 10326971784 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 33 | |
| 10326971785 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 34 | |
| 10326971786 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 35 | |
| 10326971787 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 36 | |
| 10326971788 | Litotes | Understatement | 37 | |
| 10326971789 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 38 | |
| 10326971790 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 39 | |
| 10326971791 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 40 | |
| 10326971792 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 41 | |
| 10326971793 | non sequitur | something that does not logically follow | 42 | |
| 10326971794 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 43 | |
| 10326971795 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 44 | |
| 10326971796 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 45 | |
| 10326971797 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 46 | |
| 10326971798 | Protagonist | Main character | 47 | |
| 10326971799 | Pun | A play on words | 48 | |
| 10326971800 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 49 | |
| 10326971801 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 50 | |
| 10326971802 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 51 | |
| 10326971803 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 52 | |
| 10326971804 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 53 | |
| 10326971805 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 54 | |
| 10326971806 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 55 | |
| 10326971807 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 56 | |
| 10326971808 | verbal irony | sarcasm | 57 | |
| 10326971809 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 58 |
AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 5274484838 | vernacular | language spoken by people who live in a particular locality | 0 | |
| 5274487652 | unity | unified parts of writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle | 1 | |
| 5274496146 | tricolon | sentence of three parts of equal importance | 2 | |
| 5274498896 | telegraphic sentence | sentence shorter than five words | 3 | |
| 5274500786 | syntactic permutation | sentence structure is very complex and difficult to follow | 4 | |
| 5274504910 | syntactic fluency | ability to create variety of sentence structures | 5 | |
| 5274507403 | romance | idealized hero undertake a quest and is successful | 6 | |
| 5274511392 | rhetoric | art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse | 7 | |
| 5274512982 | refrain | word, phrase, line, or group of lines that are repeated several times in a poem | 8 | |
| 5274516956 | quatrain | poem of four lines/ four lines of poem that can be considered a unit | 9 | |
| 5274522372 | periodic | main idea is at end of sentence | 10 | |
| 5274525685 | paratactic sentence | juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 11 | |
| 5274532391 | motif | recurring image, word, phrase, idea unifying the work | 12 | |
| 5274535800 | metonymy | something is referred to by something closely associated with it | 13 | |
| 5274540600 | mixed metaphor | mixes its terms so they are visually incompatible | 14 | |
| 5274547082 | dead metaphor | overused metaphor; no longer vivid | 15 | |
| 5274550124 | implied metaphor | metaphor without stating two terms of comparison | 16 | |
| 5274552161 | lyric poem | poem that expresses personal feelings/ thoughts of speaker | 17 | |
| 5274554794 | loose sentence | main clause comes first | 18 | |
| 5274557280 | local color | fiction/poetry; place emphasis on setting (customs, clothing, dialect, etc) | 19 | |
| 5274563893 | litotes | understatement where positive is emphasized through negation of negative | 20 | |
| 5274567236 | irony | discrepancy between appearance and reality | 21 | |
| 5274571111 | inversion | reversal of normal word order in sentence or phrase | 22 | |
| 5274572866 | hypotactic | sentence marked by use of connecting words between clauses; shows relationship | 23 | |
| 5274576722 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme | 24 | |
| 5274579316 | foil | character who acts as contrast to another character | 25 | |
| 5274580800 | farce | comedy with exaggerations/stereotypes | 26 | |
| 5274583755 | explication | act of interpreting or discovering meaning of text | 27 | |
| 5274585742 | fable | short story in poetry or prose that teaches practical lesson about succeeding in life | 28 | |
| 5274588446 | exposition | discourse where something is explained | 29 | |
| 5274590664 | narrative | discourse that tells series of event | 30 | |
| 5274591828 | description | discourse that uses language to create mood | 31 | |
| 5274594201 | casual relationship | writer claims one thing is result from another | 32 | |
| 5274595697 | persuasion | relies more on emotion | 33 | |
| 5274595698 | essay | non fiction prose where writer discusses aspect of subject | 34 | |
| 5274599396 | epithet | adjectives/ phrase applied to person that is used to emphasize a quality (father of our nation=washington) | 35 | |
| 5274606272 | epistrophe | repetition occurs at end of more than two lines | 36 | |
| 5274610121 | epic | long narrative poem which recounts deeds of hero and embodies value of society | 37 | |
| 5274782104 | epanalepsis | device of repetition in which same expression is repeated both at beginning and end of line | 38 | |
| 5274789433 | elegy | poem of mourning | 39 | |
| 5274790954 | eulogy | great praise about someone who has died | 40 | |
| 5274792525 | didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches specific lesson or moral or provides model of correct behavior | 41 | |
| 5274797836 | dynamic character | character who changes in important ways | 42 | |
| 5274799659 | flat character | has only one or two personality traits | 43 | |
| 5274801572 | round character | many dimensions to personality | 44 | |
| 5274802792 | chiasmus | rhetorical balance where second part is syntactically balanced with first (antimetabole for poetry) | 45 | |
| 5274808180 | conceit | elaborate metaphor that compares things that are really different | 46 | |
| 5274810282 | confessional poetry | poetry that uses intimate material from poet's life | 47 | |
| 5274813987 | static character | doesn't change in story | 48 | |
| 5274816662 | indirect characterization | reveals personality by description and thoughts | 49 | |
| 5274821761 | apostrophe | calling out to imaginary, dead, absent person | 50 | |
| 5274823651 | invocation | asking god or goddess for inspiration | 51 | |
| 5274825602 | aphorism (maxim, epigram) | brief, clever worded statement that makes observation about life | 52 | |
| 5274830996 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characters to animals or inanimate | 53 | |
| 5274834581 | antihero | central character who lacks traditional qualities of hero (courage, etc) | 54 | |
| 5274838746 | anastrophe | inversion of usual, logical order of parts of sentence | 55 | |
| 5274843015 | ambiguity | suggesting two or more different sometimes conflicting meanings in work on purpose | 56 | |
| 5274846020 | allegory | story or poem in which characters. settings, stand for people or events or abstract ideas or qualities | 57 |
AP Literature Glossary Flashcards
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| 4750646754 | allegory | a work that functions on a symbolic level | 0 | |
| 4750648665 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 4750649007 | allusion | a reference contained in work | 2 | |
| 4750649344 | anapest | a metrical pattern of 2 unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable | 3 | |
| 4750651580 | antagonist | the force or character that opposes the main charcater | 4 | |
| 4750653042 | apostrophe | direct address in poetry | 5 | |
| 4750654390 | aside | words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters | 6 | |
| 4750654912 | aubade | a love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved | 7 | |
| 4750655490 | ballad | a simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains, generally with a rhyme scheme a b c d | 8 | |
| 4750656748 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. Most of Shakespeare's plays are in this form | 9 | |
| 4750658923 | cacophony | harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work | 10 | |
| 4750661832 | caesura | a break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning | 11 | |
| 4750662771 | catharsis | according to Aristotle, the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences | 12 | |
| 4750663938 | character | one who carries out the action of the plot in literature | 13 | |
| 4750664789 | climax | the turning point of action or character in a literary work, usually the highest moment of tension | 14 | |
| 4750668966 | comic relief | the inclusion of a humongous character or scene to contrast with the tragic elements of a work, thereby intensifying the next tragic event | 15 | |
| 4750672143 | conflict | a clash between opposing forces in a literary work, such as man vs man; man vs nature; man vs God; man vs self | 16 | |
| 4750673169 | connotation | the interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning | 17 | |
| 4750673829 | convention | a traditional aspect of a literary work, such as a soliloquy in a Shakespeare play or a tragic hero in Greek tradegy | 18 | |
| 4750675018 | couplet | two lines of rhyming poetry; often used by Shakespeare to conclude a scene or an important passage | 19 | |
| 4750675781 | dactyl | a foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 20 | |
| 4750677457 | denotation | the literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 21 | |
| 4750677935 | denouement | the conclusion or tying up of loosed ends in a literary works; the resolution of the conflict and plot | 22 | |
| 4750679639 | deus ex machina | a Greek invention, literally "the god from the machine" who appears at the last moment and resolves the loose ends of a play. Today, the term refers to anyone, usually of some stature, who untangles, resolves, or reveals the key to the plot of a work | 23 | |
| 4750682786 | diction | the author's choice of word | 24 | |
| 4750683559 | dramatic monologue | a type of poem that presents a conversation between a speaker and an implied listener | 25 | |
| 4750684685 | elegy | a poem that laments the dead or a loss | 26 | |
| 4750684931 | enjabment | a technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning | 27 | |
| 4750688708 | epic | a lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero | 28 | |
| 4750689152 | epigram | a brief witty poem | 29 | |
| 4750689575 | euphony | the pleasant, mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work | 30 | |
| 4750691570 | exposition | background information presented in a literary work | 31 | |
| 4750691727 | fable | a simple, symbolic story, usually employing animals as characters | 32 | |
| 4750694087 | figurative language | the body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one | 33 | |
| 4750694576 | flashback | a device that enables writers to refer to past thoughts, events, episodes | 34 | |
| 4750695602 | foot | a metrical unit in poetry; a syllabic measure of a line | 35 | |
| 4750696075 | foreshadowing | hints of future events in a literary work | 36 | |
| 4750696906 | form | the shape or structure of a literary work | 37 | |
| 4750697088 | free verse | poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme | 38 | |
| 4750697695 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 39 | |
| 4750698050 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented on; the most common poetic foot in the English language | 40 | |
| 4750700168 | idyll | a type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time | 41 | |
| 4750700670 | image | a verbal approximation of a sensory impression, concept, or emotion | 42 | |
| 4750701321 | imagery | the total effect of related sensory images on a work of literature | 43 | |
| 4750701734 | impressionism | writing that reflects a personal image of a character, event, or concept | 44 | |
| 4750702413 | irony | an unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. It involves dialogue and situation, and it can be intentional or unplanned | 45 | |
| 4750705434 | dramatic irony | centers around the ignorance of those involved while the audience is aware of the circumstance | 46 | |
| 4750706777 | lyric poetry | a type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought | 47 | |
| 4750709605 | magical realism | a type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world | 48 | |
| 4750712843 | metaphor | a direct comparison between dissimilar things | 49 | |
| 4750713482 | metaphorical poetry | refers to the work of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox | 50 | |
| 4750714685 | meter | a pattern of beats in poetry | 51 | |
| 4750715086 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 52 | |
| 4750715972 | monologue | a speech given buy one character | 53 | |
| 4750716231 | motif | the repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or charcaters | 54 | |
| 4750716941 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 55 | |
| 4750717216 | narrator | the speaker of a literary work | 56 | |
| 4750717702 | octave | an eight-line stanza, usually combined with a seater in a Petrarchan sonnet | 57 | |
| 4750718312 | ode | a formal lengthy poe that celebrates a particular subject | 58 | |
| 4750718726 | onomatopeia | words that sound like the sound they represnt | 59 | |
| 4750719146 | oxymoron | an image of contradictory terms | 60 | |
| 4750719411 | parable | a story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson | 61 | |
| 4750720182 | paradox | a set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects an underlying truth | 62 | |
| 4750722483 | parallel plot | a secondary story line that mimics and reinforces the main plot | 63 | |
| 4750722986 | parody | a comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original | 64 | |
| 4750723515 | pathos | the aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience | 65 | |
| 4750723777 | personification | the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts | 66 | |
| 4750724575 | plot | a sequence of events in a literary work | 67 | |
| 4750725522 | point of view | the method of narration in a work | 68 | |
| 4750726253 | protagonist | the hero or main character of a literary work | 69 | |
| 4750726998 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 70 | |
| 4750727125 | resolution | the denouement of a literary work | 71 | |
| 4750728123 | rhetorical question | a question that does not expect an explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience | 72 | |
| 4750729508 | rhyme | the duplication of final syllable sounds in two or more lines | 73 | |
| 4750730513 | rhythm | the repetitive pattern of beats in a poeam | 74 | |
| 4750731220 | rhyme scheme | the annotation of the pattern of the rhyme | 75 | |
| 4750731829 | romanticism | a style or movement of literature that has as its foundation an interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape | 76 | |
| 4750733241 | satire | a mode of writing based on ridicule, which criticizes the foibles and follies of society without necessarily offering a solution | 77 | |
| 4750734312 | scansion | analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter | 78 | |
| 4750734684 | sestet | a highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. it depends on the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of six stanzas | 79 | |
| 4750736501 | setting | the time and place of a literary work | 80 | |
| 4750737055 | simile | an indirect comparison that uses the work like or as to link the differing items in the comparison | 81 | |
| 4750738421 | soliloquy | a speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience. | 82 | |
| 4750745111 | sonnet | a 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter | 83 | |
| 4750746417 | spondee | a poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables | 84 | |
| 4750747008 | stage directions | the specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery, etc. | 85 | |
| 4750748250 | stanza | a unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem | 86 | |
| 4750749163 | structure | the organization and form of a work | 87 | |
| 4750749778 | style | the unique way an author presents his ideas | 88 | |
| 4750754344 | subplot | a secondary plot that explores ideas different from the main storyline | 89 | |
| 4750754931 | subtext | implied meaning of a work or section of a work | 90 | |
| 4750755168 | symbol | something in a literary work that stands for something else | 91 | |
| 4750756473 | syncdoche | a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole | 92 | |
| 4750757581 | syntax | the grammatical structure of prose and poetry | 93 | |
| 4750757972 | tercet | a three-line stanza | 94 | |
| 4750758252 | theme | the underlying ideas that the author illustrates through characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc. | 95 | |
| 4750759163 | tone | the author's attitude toward his subject | 96 | |
| 4750759644 | tragic hero | according to Aristotle, a basically good person of noble birth or exalted position who has a fatal flaw or commits an error in judgment which leads to his downfall | 97 | |
| 4750762342 | trochee | a single metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable | 98 | |
| 4750764806 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended | 99 | |
| 4750765925 | villanelle | a highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third line throughout. | 100 |
AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 4341033495 | Meter | Describes the rhythm of stresses structured into a recurrence of regular units of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 0 | |
| 4341033496 | Foot | A rhythmic unit into which a line of metrical verse is divided. | 1 | |
| 4341033497 | Stanza | A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem. | 2 | |
| 4341033498 | Enjambment | Run-on lines | 3 | |
| 4341033499 | End-Stopped | The pause in the reading of a poem. | 4 | |
| 4341033500 | Caesura | A strong phrasal pause falls within a line; provides sentence with emphasis. | 5 | |
| 4341033501 | Rhyme | The identity of sound between syllables or paired groups of syllables. | 6 | |
| 4341033502 | Iambic Pentameter | Five metric feet of a light syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 7 | |
| 4341033503 | Heroic Couplet | Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs | 8 | |
| 4341033504 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 4341033505 | Free Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter. | 10 | |
| 4341033506 | Sonnet | A 14 line, iambic pentameter poem | 11 | |
| 4341033507 | Villanelle | Composed of uneven number of tercets. | 12 | |
| 4341033508 | Terza Rima | Verse composed of three-line stanzas with interlocking rhyme scheme. | 13 | |
| 4341033509 | Royal Rhyme | A seven-line poetic stanza written in iambic pentameter. | 14 | |
| 4341033510 | Tone | The authors attitude and relationship to his material. | 15 | |
| 4341033511 | Diction | Word choice. | 16 | |
| 4341033512 | Syntax | Sentence patterns. | 17 | |
| 4341033513 | Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things suggesting a shared common quality. | 18 | |
| 4341033514 | Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using like or as. | 19 | |
| 4341033515 | Personification | Giving human qualities to inanimate things. | 20 | |
| 4341033516 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for purpose and effect. | 21 | |
| 4341033517 | Irony | An unexpected twist. | 22 | |
| 4341033518 | Litotes | An affirmation made indirectly by denying it's opposite. | 23 | |
| 4341033519 | Alliteration | The repitition of initial consonant or vowels sounds. | 24 | |
| 4341033520 | Synecdoche | A part represents the whole. | 25 | |
| 4341033521 | Metonomy | Something closely associated. | 26 | |
| 4341033522 | Apostrophe | A direct and explicit address either to an absent person or nonhuman entity. | 27 | |
| 4341033523 | Oxymoron | A rhetorical figure the juxtaposes two opposites. | 28 | |
| 4341033524 | Anastrophe | A reversal of word order to make a point. | 29 | |
| 4341033525 | Allusion | Reference to mythology. | 30 | |
| 4341033526 | Denotation | The exact meaning of a word. | 31 | |
| 4341033527 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word. | 32 | |
| 4341033528 | Conceit | An argument, a comparison. | 33 | |
| 4341033529 | Tenor | The subject of any figure of speech. | 34 | |
| 4341033530 | Vehicle | The comparison used to convey message. | 35 | |
| 4341033531 | Aphorism | A brief statement of a general truth. | 36 | |
| 4341033532 | Aesthetics | The study of the nature of and the response to beauty and art. | 37 | |
| 4341056021 | Allegory | A literal work in which objects, persons, or events are equated with a meaning outside the work itself. | 38 | |
| 4341056022 | Atmosphere | The general over-all feeling of a work. | 39 | |
| 4341056023 | Analogy | A comparison of ideas or objects which are essentially different but are alike in 1 way. | 40 | |
| 4341056024 | Assonance | The repitition in lines of verse of the same vowel. | 41 |
AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 4706617507 | Ignominious | Deserving or causing disgrace or shame | 0 | |
| 4706617508 | Vehement | Showing strong feelings, forceful, passionate | 1 | |
| 4706617509 | Sardonic | Grimly, mocking, or cynical | 2 | |
| 4706617510 | Lugubrious | Looking or sounding sad or dismal | 3 | |
| 4706617511 | Taciturn | Reserved or uncommunicative in speech, saying litte | 4 | |
| 4733172910 | Captious | Tending to find fault or raise petty objections | 5 | |
| 4733173646 | Fetid | Smelling extremely unpleasant | 6 | |
| 4733173886 | Lurid | Very vivid in color, especially so as to create unpleasantly harsh/unnatural effect Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters | 7 | |
| 4733179849 | Arrogate | Take or claim something without justification | 8 | |
| 4733180333 | Soporific | Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep | 9 | |
| 4733180675 | Ameliorate | Make something that is bad better | 10 | |
| 4733181110 | Expiate | Atone for a guilt or sin | 11 | |
| 4733182680 | Penurious | Extremely poor, poverty-stricken | 12 | |
| 4733183263 | Perfidious | Deceitful and untrustworthy | 13 | |
| 4733183502 | Fervid | Intensely enthusiastic or passionate | 14 | |
| 4811966295 | Turbid | (Of a liquid) cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter | 15 | |
| 4811971903 | Indignant | Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment | 16 | |
| 4811975815 | Officious | Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way especially in regard to trivial matters | 17 | |
| 4811983617 | Equivocal | Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous | 18 | |
| 4811987872 | Assiduous | Showing great care and perseverance, working really hard at something | 19 | |
| 4811995059 | Inscrutable | Impossible to understand or interpret; stronger than equivocal | 20 | |
| 4812000361 | Insuperable | (Of a difficulty or obstacles) impossible to overcome or achieve | 21 | |
| 4812002315 | Vapid | Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging | 22 | |
| 4812005553 | Insipid | Lacking flavor; lacking vigor interest; dull; bland; boring (think food) | 23 | |
| 4812010320 | Impetuous | Acting or done quickly without or care (think teenagers when making decisions) | 24 | |
| 4812014213 | Imperious | Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering | 25 | |
| 4812019161 | Precocious | (Of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual (Think prodigies) | 26 | |
| 4812022818 | Capricious | Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior | 27 | |
| 4812025368 | Diffident | Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence | 28 | |
| 4812026795 | Meretricious | Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity | 29 | |
| 6130506280 | Propitious | Giving or indicating a good chance of success | 30 | |
| 6130506281 | Indefatigable | (Of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly | 31 | |
| 6130888432 | Ostensible | Stating or appearing to be true but not necessarily true | 32 | |
| 6130888433 | Salubrious | Health-giving, healthy, "like a salad" | 33 | |
| 6130888434 | Credulous | Having or showing too great a readiness to believe in things | 34 | |
| 6130888435 | Pedantic | Scrupulous, prone to focus on the details, maybe to an annoying degree | 35 | |
| 6130888436 | Incendiary | (Of a device or attack) designed to cause fires | 36 | |
| 6130888437 | Genial | Friendly and cheerful | 37 | |
| 6130888438 | Disconsolate | Without consolation or comfort; unhappy, unable to be cheered up | 38 | |
| 6130888439 | Peremptory | Insisting to be cheered up or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way | 39 | |
| 6130888440 | Ascetic | Characterized by or suggesing the practicae of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religous reasons | 40 | |
| 6130888441 | Palliate | Make (a disease or its sumptoms) less severe of unpeasant without removing the cause | 41 | |
| 6130888442 | Prurient | Having or encouraging an exercise interest in sexual manners | 42 | |
| 6130888443 | Debauchery | Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures | 43 | |
| 6130888444 | Solecism | A grammatical mistake in speech or writing | 44 | |
| 6130888445 | Indomitable | Impossible to subdue or defeat | 45 | |
| 6130888446 | Intractable | Hard to control or deal with | 46 | |
| 6130888447 | Supercilious | Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others | 47 | |
| 6130888448 | Despotic | Of or typical of a despot; tyrannical | 48 | |
| 6130888449 | Impalable | Unable to be felt by touch | 49 | |
| 6130888450 | Culpable | Deserving blame | 50 | |
| 6130888451 | Redolent | Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something); ex. Smells | 51 | |
| 6130888452 | Furtive | Attempting to avoid or notice attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble | 52 | |
| 6130888453 | Reprobate | An unprincipled person often used humorislyor affectionately | 53 | |
| 6130888454 | Propitiate | Win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them | 54 | |
| 6130888455 | Behemoth | A huge or monstrous creature | 55 | |
| 6130888456 | Palimpsest | A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain | 56 | |
| 6130888457 | Peccadillo | A small, relatively unimportant offense or sin | 57 | |
| 6130888458 | Susurration | Whispering, mummuring, or rustling | 58 | |
| 6130888459 | Surly | Bad-tempered and unfriendly | 59 | |
| 6130888460 | Disconsolate | Without consent of comfort | 60 | |
| 6130888461 | Approbation | Approval or praise | 61 | |
| 6130888462 | Collusion | Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others | 62 | |
| 6130888463 | Ingratiating | Intended to gain approval or favor, sycophantic | 63 | |
| 6130888464 | Heretical | Believing in or practicing religious heresy | 64 | |
| 6130888465 | Lethargic | Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic | 65 | |
| 6130888466 | Sedentary | Tending to spend much time seated, somewhat inactive | 66 | |
| 6130888467 | Jocular | Find or characterized by joking; humorous or playful | 67 | |
| 6130888468 | Lurid | Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect | 68 | |
| 6130888469 | Incorrigible | Not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed | 69 | |
| 6130888470 | Sordid | Involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt | 70 | |
| 6130888471 | Brevity | Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech; shortness of time "The sole of wit" - Shakespeare | 71 | |
| 6130888472 | Insipid | Lacking flavor; lacking vigor interest | 72 | |
| 6130888473 | Harrowed | Cause distress to someone or something | 73 | |
| 6130888474 | Disconcerted | Disturb the composure of; unsettle | 74 | |
| 6130888475 | Consternation | Feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected | 75 | |
| 6130888476 | Prodigious | Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree | 76 | |
| 6130888477 | Disdainful | Showing contempt or lack of respect | 77 | |
| 6130888478 | Imperious | Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering | 78 | |
| 6130888479 | Inviolable | Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored (violate) | 79 | |
| 6130910169 | Consummate | 1. Make (a marriage or relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse 2. Showing a high degree of skill and flair; complete or perfect | 80 | |
| 6130910170 | Obeisance | Deferential respect (obey) | 81 | |
| 6130910171 | Laudable | Deserving praise and commendation | 82 | |
| 6130910172 | Idyllic | (Especially of a time or place) like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque Ex. Beautiful beach | 83 | |
| 6130910173 | Prudent | Acting with or showing care and thought for the future | 84 | |
| 6130910174 | Glib | (Or a words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow Ex. Politicians | 85 | |
| 6130910175 | Presumptuous | (Of a person of their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate; full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness | 86 | |
| 6130910176 | Quixotic | Exceeding idealistic; unrealistic and impractical | 87 | |
| 6130910177 | Equanimity | Mental calmness, composure and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation | 88 | |
| 6130910178 | Indecorous | not in keeping with good taste and propriety; improper | 89 | |
| 6130910179 | Insuperable | (of a difficulty or obstacle) impossible to overcome Synonym: insurmountable | 90 | |
| 6254116366 | Misanthrope | A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society | 91 | |
| 6254116367 | Profligate | Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources | 92 | |
| 6254116368 | Sententious | Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner (negative connotation) | 93 | |
| 6254116369 | Plaintive | Sounding sad and mournful | 94 | |
| 6254116370 | Pragmatic | Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations | 95 | |
| 6254116371 | Aesthetic | Concerned with beauty of the appreciation of beauty | 96 | |
| 6254116372 | Jovial | Cheerful and friendly | 97 | |
| 6254116373 | Flippant | Not showing a serious or respectful attitude | 98 | |
| 6254116374 | Portentous | Of or like a portent (a sign or warning of something happening, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen) | 99 | |
| 6558035100 | Calumnious | A misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation | 100 | |
| 6558035101 | Pernicious | Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way | 101 | |
| 6558035102 | Rogue | A dishonest or unprincipled person; a rascal or scoundrel | 102 | |
| 6558035103 | Pestilent | Destructive to life; deadly | 103 | |
| 6558035104 | Abate | (Of something perceived as hostile, threatening, or negative) become less intense or widespread | 104 | |
| 6558035105 | Remiss | Lacking attention to Dutch; negligent | 105 | |
| 6558035106 | Perdition | Utter destruction, in theology a state of eternal punishment or damnation into which sinful and impenitent people go after death | 106 | |
| 6558035107 | Avouch | Affirm or assert, to vouch for | 107 | |
| 6558035108 | Addled | Unable to think clearly or confused | 108 | |
| 6558035109 | Strident | Loud and harsh; grating | 109 |
AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 7413154361 | allusion | a reference to history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. | 0 | |
| 7413154362 | ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more differenct, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work. | 1 | |
| 7413154363 | anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 2 | |
| 7413156262 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (e.g. "One should eat to live, not live to eat." | 3 | |
| 7413157853 | antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 4 | |
| 7413157854 | asyndeton | Commas used without conjuction | 5 | |
| 7413159042 | direct characterization | Author tells us directly what the character is like. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this | 6 | |
| 7413159043 | dynamic character | a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 7 | |
| 7413160179 | indirect characterization | the author reveals what the character is like through the character's words, actions, and thoughts. Common in modern literature | 8 | |
| 7413160180 | round character | a character that has more dimensions to their personalities - they are complex, just like real people | 9 | |
| 7413160181 | static character | a characterthat does not change much in the course of the story | 10 | |
| 7413161361 | connotation | the implied meaning of words through associations and emotional overtones | 11 | |
| 7413161362 | metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison | 12 | |
| 7413161363 | mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 13 | |
| 7413161364 | motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work that ties ideas to the theme | 14 | |
| 7413162593 | personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 15 | |
| 7413162594 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas | 16 | |
| 7413162595 | simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using comparison words | 17 | |
| 7413163977 | synecdoche | a part repreasents the whole (e.g. 100 head of cattle) | 18 | |
| 7413163978 | theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work | 19 | |
| 7413165821 | tone | an attitude that a wrtier takes towardd the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization | 20 | |
| 7741432127 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 21 | |
| 7741450350 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony | 22 | |
| 7741458191 | antagonist | the opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 23 | |
| 8568630437 | chiasmus | In poetry, a second sentence is syntactically balanced against a first, but reversed. "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike" In prose, called antimetabole. | 24 | |
| 8568639014 | confessional poetry | a 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life. | 25 | |
| 8568641634 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 26 | |
| 8568642924 | elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. | 27 | |
| 8568645169 | Eulogy | a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died | 28 | |
| 8568647318 | 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. | 29 | |
| 8568650960 | free verse | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | 30 | |
| 8568654327 | lyric poem | a poem that doesn't tell a story bu expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. | 31 | |
| 8568657511 | quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit | 32 | |
| 8568661403 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem | 33 | |
| 8568663506 | style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax. | 34 | |
| 8568665175 | syntactic fluency | ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. | 35 |
AP Spanish Literature - Autores (Siglos XV-XIX), 1st Semester Flashcards
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| 8050275782 | El Conde Lucanor, Cuento XXXV (De lo que aconteció a un mancebo que se casó con una mujer muy brava y muy fuerte) | Don Juan Manuel | 0 | |
| 8050275783 | Romance de la pérdida de Alhama | Anónimo (Ay, de mi) | 1 | |
| 8050275784 | Los presagios, según los informantes de Sahagún (Visión de los vencidos) | Bernardino de Sahagún/Miguel León-Portilla | 2 | |
| 8050275785 | Se ha Perdido el Pueblo Mexicatl (Visión de los vencidos) | Traducción por Miguel León-Portilla | 3 | |
| 8050275786 | Segunda Carta de Relación | Hernán Cortés | 4 | |
| 8050275787 | En tanto que de rosa y azucena (Soneto XXIII) | Garcilaso de la Vega | 5 | |
| 8050275788 | La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades | Anónimo (por buena razón) | 6 | |
| 8050275789 | Mientras por competir con tu cabello (Soneto CLXVI) | Luis de Argote y Góngora | 7 | |
| 8050275790 | El Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes | 8 | |
| 8050275791 | Miré los muros de la patria mía (Salmo XVII) | Francisco de Quevedo | 9 | |
| 8050275792 | El burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedra | Tirso de Molina/Fray Gabriel Téllez | 10 | |
| 8050275793 | Hombres necios que acusáis (Sátira filosófica) | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | 11 | |
| 8050275794 | En una tempestad | José María Heredia | 12 | |
| 8050275795 | Volverán las ooscuras golondrinas (Rima XVII) | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | 13 | |
| 8050275801 | Las Medias Rojas | Emilia Pardo Bazán | 14 | |
| 8050275799 | El Hijo | Horacio Quiroga | 15 | |
| 8050275796 | Nuestra América | José Martí | 16 | |
| 8050275798 | A Roosevelt | Rubén Darío | 17 |
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