AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 10999487846 | allegory | Portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters are frequently personifications of abstract ideas. | 0 | |
| 10999487847 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words | 1 | |
| 10999487848 | allusion | Reference to another work of literature, art, history, or current events. | 2 | |
| 10999487849 | anaphora | repetition of first part of a sentences repeated over and over. | 3 | |
| 10999487850 | antagonist | a hostile person who is opposed to another character |  | 4 |
| 10999487851 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 5 |
| 10999487852 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 6 |
| 10999487853 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 7 |
| 10999487854 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 8 |
| 10999487855 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 9 |
| 10999487856 | cacophony | blend of unharmonious sounds |  | 10 |
| 10999487857 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 11 |
| 10999487858 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 12 |
| 10999487859 | flat character | story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic |  | 13 |
| 10999487860 | round character | character who has complex personality: contradicted person |  | 14 |
| 10999487861 | Round character | changes throughout the story, through major conflict. Wide range of emotions |  | 15 |
| 10999487862 | static character | person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality |  | 16 |
| 10999487863 | characterization | process of revealing characters personality |  | 17 |
| 10999487864 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 18 |
| 10999487865 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 19 |
| 10999487866 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 20 |
| 10999487867 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 21 |
| 10999487868 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 22 |
| 10999487869 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 23 |
| 10999487870 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 24 |
| 10999487871 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 25 |
| 10999487872 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 26 |
| 10999487873 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 27 |
| 10999487874 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 28 |
| 10999487875 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 29 | |
| 10999487876 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 30 |
| 10999487877 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 31 |
| 10999487878 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 32 |
| 10999487879 | English sonnet | 14 lines: -3 quantrains + couplet -Rhyme scheme: Abab, cdcd, efef, gg. |  | 33 |
| 10999487880 | epiphany | when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life |  | 34 |
| 10999487881 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 35 |
| 10999487882 | extended metaphor | A metaphor that is sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 36 |
| 10999487883 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |  | 37 |
| 10999487884 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 38 |
| 10999487885 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 39 |
| 10999487886 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 40 |
| 10999487887 | foot | basic unit in the measurement of stressed and unstressed syllables |  | 41 |
| 10999487888 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 42 |
| 10999487889 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 43 |
| 10999487890 | Hubris | excessive pride that leads to antagonists downfall |  | 44 |
| 10999487891 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 45 |
| 10999487892 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 46 |
| 10999487893 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 47 |
| 10999487894 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |  | 48 |
| 10999487895 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 49 |
| 10999487896 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 50 |
| 10999487897 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 51 |
| 10999487898 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octet with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 52 |
| 10999487899 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 53 |
| 10999487900 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 54 |
| 10999487901 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 55 |
| 10999487902 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 56 |
| 10999487903 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 57 |
| 10999487904 | motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 58 |
| 10999487905 | narrator | Person telling the story |  | 59 |
| 10999487906 | octet | 8 line stanza |  | 60 |
| 10999487907 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 61 |
| 10999487908 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 62 |
| 10999487909 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 63 |
| 10999487910 | paradox | A contradiction or dilemma |  | 64 |
| 10999487911 | paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in your own words. |  | 65 |
| 10999487912 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 66 |
| 10999487913 | plot | Sequence of events in a story | | 67 |
| 10999487914 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 68 |
| 10999487915 | omniscient point of view | The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person. |  | 69 |
| 10999487916 | third person limited point of view | narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view | 70 | |
| 10999487917 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 71 | |
| 10999487918 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events. | 72 | |
| 10999487919 | protagonist | Main character | 73 | |
| 10999487920 | quatrain | A four-line stanza | 74 | |
| 10999487921 | rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound | 75 | |
| 10999487922 | rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem | 76 | |
| 10999487923 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax | 77 | |
| 10999487924 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 78 | |
| 10999487925 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 79 | |
| 10999487926 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 80 | |
| 10999487927 | sestet | six-line stanza | 81 | |
| 10999487928 | setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 82 | |
| 10999487929 | simile | A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as" | 83 | |
| 10999487930 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 84 | |
| 10999487931 | sonnet | 14-line poem in iamic paramater, 3 quantrains and 1 couplet | 85 | |
| 10999487932 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 86 | |
| 10999487933 | stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. | 87 | |
| 10999487934 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. | 88 | |
| 10999487935 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | 89 | |
| 10999487936 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 90 | |
| 10999487937 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 91 | |
| 10999487938 | tercet | three-line stanza | 92 | |
| 10999487939 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 93 | |
| 10999487940 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition | 94 | |
| 10999487941 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 95 | |
| 10999487942 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 96 | |
| 10999487943 | truncation | the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse. | 97 | |
| 10999487944 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 98 | |
| 10999487945 | verse | A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 99 | |
| 10999487946 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets (aba) and a quatrain (abaa) with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 100 | |
| 11015614453 | ars poetica | Poetry written about poetry | 101 | |
| 11015621764 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 102 | |
| 11015641731 | Bildungsroman | A coming of age story | 103 | |
| 11015659368 | Carpe diem | Literally, "seize the day"; "enjoy life while you can," a common theme in life and literature. | 104 | |
| 11015667909 | Secondary character | Any character other than one of the main characters; Not as prominent | 105 | |
| 11015680670 | Chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 106 | |
| 11015695242 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 107 | |
| 11015702418 | ekphrastic poetry | A form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre, such as a painting or a piece of music | 108 | |
| 11015706616 | Elegy | A sad or mournful poem; sometimes related to death | 109 | |
| 11015716100 | Epigraph | The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 110 | |
| 11015723684 | Eulogy | Speech or poem of commendation; high praise of someone | 111 | |
| 11015763112 | Impressionism | An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing instead of actualism. | 112 | |
| 11015768741 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 113 | |
| 11015788526 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 114 | |
| 11015797609 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 115 | |
| 11015846868 | parallel structure | The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence | 116 | |
| 11015857895 | Postmodernism | Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture. | 117 | |
| 11015882891 | Romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion and beauty rather than reason | 118 | |
| 11015897650 | Cumulative sentence | Independent clause followed by phrases and clauses | 119 | |
| 11015922966 | sprung rhythm | a poetic meter approximating speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones. | 120 | |
| 11015950088 | Vignette | A short scene or story that usually gives a plot a thematic structure | 121 | |
| 11015970467 | Transcendentalism | A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. | 122 |
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AP World History Vocab 61 Flashcards
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| 11877532535 | First caliph of Islam after the death of Muhammad | Abu Bakr |  | 0 |
| 11877539857 | Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad. | Caliphate |  | 1 |
| 11877546358 | Clan of Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca; clan later able to establish dynasty as rulers of Islam | Umayyad |  | 2 |
| 11877556137 | Dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads as caliphs within Islam; came to power in 750 C.E. | Abbasid |  | 3 |
| 11877654574 | a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam | Sunni |  | 4 |
| 11877661584 | A group of Islamic religion that believes that its religious leader should be chosen based on heredity. | Shi'ite |  | 5 |
AP World History Vocab 46 Flashcards
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| 11878223303 | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | Zheng He |  | 0 |
| 11878235907 | This Portuguese prince who lead an extensive effort to promote seafaring expertise in the 14th century. Sent many expedition to the coast of West Africa in the 15th century, leading Portugal to discover a route around Africa, ultimately to India. | Henry the Navigator |  | 1 |
| 11878243703 | First European to establish sea route to India | DeGama |  | 2 |
| 11878250971 | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to India (1451-1506) | Columbus |  | 3 |
| 11878255587 | the science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship | Navigation |  | 4 |
AP World History: Traditions and Encounters - Chapter 22 Flashcards
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| 11855791390 | Afonso de Albuquerque | Portuguese naval/military leader who ended Muslim control of the Indian Ocean trade--took Goa, Moluccas, and held much of SE under Portuguese control | 0 | |
| 11855796278 | Astrolabe | An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets | 1 | |
| 11855798771 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. | 2 | |
| 11855801222 | Captain James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779). | 3 | |
| 11855801223 | Ceuta | a Muslim city in North Africa Prince Henry conquered in 1415; the Portuguese found exotic stores filled with pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and the spices. In addition, they encountered large supplies of gold, silver, and jewels | 4 | |
| 11855806536 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India/Asia. | 5 | |
| 11855810804 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 6 | |
| 11855813427 | Cross staffs and back staffs | An instrument used at sea for measuring the altitude of celestial bodies | 7 | |
| 11855815765 | East India Company | An English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia. | 8 | |
| 11855820217 | epidemic disease | disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a short time | 9 | |
| 11855823610 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 10 | |
| 11855829871 | Guanahani | local name for the island on which Columbus first landed | 11 | |
| 11855834695 | Jan Pieterszoon Coen | Founded Batavia on Java Island in 1619, which was a strategic site near Sunda Strait that attracted Chinese and Malay vessels; architect of Dutch policy by monopolizing spice trade | 12 | |
| 11855838840 | Java | An object-oriented programming language designed specifically for programs (particularly multimedia) to be used over the Internet. Java allows programmers to create small programs or applications to enhance websites. | 13 | |
| 11855841740 | joint-stock company | A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. | 14 | |
| 11855846584 | magnetic compass | Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north | 15 | |
| 11855846585 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. | 16 | |
| 11855854409 | Manila Galleons | Heavily armed, fast ships that brought luxury goods from China to Mexico and carried silver from Mexico to China. | 17 | |
| 11855857138 | Miguel Lopez de Legazpi | The first Spanish governor-general in the Philippines. | 18 | |
| 11855861463 | Prince Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 19 | |
| 11855863902 | Sao Jorge de Mina | Location of fortified Portuguese trading posts in modern Ghana. The Portuguese exchanged horses, leather, textiles, and metal wares for gold & slaves. | 20 | |
| 11855866121 | Seven Years War | (1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. | 21 | |
| 11855877402 | Siberia | The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia. | 22 | |
| 11855880311 | Taino | a Native American people of the Caribbean islands - the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas | 23 | |
| 11855880312 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. | 24 | |
| 11855886653 | Vitus Bering | Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) | 25 | |
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Goodberlet AP World History Map Quiz Flashcards
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| 6712226897 | Mecca | What is "A" referring to? |  | 0 |
| 6712226898 | Jerusalem | What is "B" referring to? | | 1 |
| 6712226899 | Constantinople | What is "C" referring to? | | 2 |
| 6712226900 | Anatolia | What is "F" referring to? | | 3 |
| 6712226901 | Swahili Coast | What is "E" referring to? |  | 4 |
| 6712226902 | Timbuktu | What is "D" referring to? | | 5 |
| 6712226903 | Sub-Saharan Africa | What is "S" referring to? | | 6 |
| 6712226904 | Hindu Kush | What are the green marks referring to? |  | 7 |
| 6712226905 | Gobi Desert | What is "I" referring to? |  | 8 |
| 6712226906 | Korean Peninsula | What is "H" referring to? | | 9 |
| 6712226907 | Central Asia | What is "J" referring to? |  | 10 |
| 6712226908 | Middle East | What is "T" referring to? | | 11 |
| 6712226909 | South Asia | What is "M" referring to? | | 12 |
| 6712226910 | East Africa | What is "N" referring to? | | 13 |
| 6712226911 | East Asia | What is "K" referring to? | | 14 |
| 6712226912 | Southeast Asia | What is "L" referring to? | | 15 |
| 6712226913 | West Africa | What is "P" referring to? |  | 16 |
| 6712226914 | Central Africa | What is "O" referring to? | | 17 |
| 6712226915 | Latin America | What is "Q" referring to? |  | 18 |
| 6712226916 | Caribbean | What is "R" referring to? | | 19 |
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