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AP English Literature Terms Flashcards

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2135447320	abstract	an abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research	0
2135447321	adage	a saying/proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language	1
2135447322	allegory	a story in which the narrative/characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical or possibly an ethical meaning	2
2135447323	alliteration	the repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. writers use this for ornament or for emphasis	3
2135447324	allusion	a reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea	4
2135447325	ambiguity	a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	5
2135447326	anachronism	a person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time/era in which the work is set	6
2135447327	analogy	a comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things	7
2135447328	annotation	a brief explanation,summary, or evaluation of a text or work of literature	8
2135447329	antagonist	a character or force in a work of literature that, by opposing the protagonist produces tension or conflict	9
2135447330	antithesis	a rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences	10
2135447331	aphorism	a short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment	11
2135447332	Apollonian	in contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior	12
2135447333	apostrophe	a locution that addresses a person/personified thing not present	13
2135447334	archetype	an abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model/form	14
2135447335	assonance	the repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose	15
2135447336	ballad	a simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited; a long narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically has a naive folksy quality	16
2135447337	bard	a poet, in olden times, a performer who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment	17
2135447338	bathos	the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality	18
2135447339	belle-lettres	the French term for the world of books, criticism, and literature in general	19
2135447340	bibliography	a list of works cited or otherwise relevant to a subject or other work	20
2135447341	Bildungsroman	a German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal	21
2135447342	blank verse	poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton. its lines generally do not rhyme	22
2135447343	bombast	inflated, pretentious language used for trivial subjects	23
2135447344	burlesque	a work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation; a broad parody and exaggerates it into ridiculousness	24
2135447345	cacophony	grating, inharmonious sounds	25
2135447346	caesura	a pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often (but not always marked by punctuation)	26
2135447347	canon	the works considered most important in national literature or period; works widely read and studied	27
2135447348	caricature	a grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons and things; a portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality	28
2135447349	carpe diem	"seize the day"	29
2135447350	catharsis	a cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy	30
2135447351	classic	a highly regarded work of literature or other art form that has withstood the test of time, similar to canon	31
2135447352	classicism	deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity and restraint	32
2135447353	climax	the high point, or turning point, of a story/play	33
2135447354	novel	a tale in which a young protagonist experiences an introduction to adulthood. the character may develop understanding via disillusionment, education, doses of reality, or any other experiences that alter his/her emotional/intellectual maturity. e.g. Invisible Man	34
2135447355	conceit	a witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language; a startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines	35
2135447356	anticlimax	this occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect, it is frequently comic in effect	36
2135447357	antihero	a protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities	37
2135447358	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	38
2135447359	aspect	a trait of characteristic, as in "an aspect of the dew drop"	39
2135447360	atmosphere	the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	40
2135447361	black humor	this is the use of disturbing themes in comedy. e.g. two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight	41
2135447362	cadence	the beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense	42
2135447363	canto	is a divider in long poems, much like chapters in a novel	43
2135447364	coinage	a.k.a. neologism, inventing a word	44
2135447365	colloquialism	this is a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English	45
2135447366	controlling image	when an image dominates and shapes the entire work	46
2135447367	metaphysical conceit	a type of conceit that occurs only in metaphysical poetry	47
2135447368	connotation	the suggest or implied meaning of a word/phrase	48
2135447369	consonance	the repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a group of words or a line of poetry	49
2135447370	couplet	a pair of lines that end in rhyme	50
2135447371	heroic couplet	two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter are called this	51
2135447372	denotation	the literal, dictionary definition of a word	52
2135447373	denouement	the resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work or fiction	53
2135447374	deus ex machina	in literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem	54
2135447375	Dionysian	as distinguished from Apollonian, the word refers to sensual, pleasure seeking impulses	55
2135447376	diction	the choice of words in oral and written discourse	56
2135447377	syntax	the ordering and structuring of the words in a sentence	57
2135447378	dirge	a song for the dead, its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy	58
2135447379	dissonance	the grating of incompatible sounds	59
2135447380	doggerel	crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme	60
2135447381	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not	61
2135447382	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	62
2135447383	elegy	a poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing/death of something/someone of value	63
2135447384	elements	the basic techniques of each genre of literature. IN SHORT STORY: characters, irony, theme, symbol, plot, setting. IN POETRY: figurative language, symbol, imagery, rhythm, rhyme. IN DRAMA: conflict, characters, climax, conclusion, exposition, rising action, falling action, props. IN NONFICTION: argument, evidence, reason, appeals, fallacies, thesis.	64
2135447385	ellipsis	three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation	65
2135447386	empathy	a feeling of association or identification with an object/person	66
2135447387	end stopped	a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation	67
2135447388	enjambment	the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause	68
2135447389	epic	an extended narrative poem that tells of the adventures and exploits of a hero that is generally larger than life and is often considered a legendary figure	69
2135447390	mock epic	a parody form that deals with mundane events and ironically treats them as worthy of epic poetry	70
2135447391	epitaph	lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. usually a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious, but sometimes witty and even irreverent	71
2135447392	epigram	a concise but ingenious, witty and thoughtful statement	72
2135447393	euphony	when sounds blend harmoniously; pleasing, harmonious sounds	73
2135447394	epithet	an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing	74
2135447395	eponymous	a term for the title character of a work of literature	75
2135447396	euphemism	a mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term	76
2135447397	exegesis	a detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of literature	77
2135447398	expose	a piece of writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailties, or other short comings	78
2135447399	explicit	to say or write something directly and clearly	79
2135447400	explication	the interpretation/analysis of a text	80
2135447401	extended metaphor	a series of comparisons between two unlike objects that occur over a number of lines	81
2135447402	fable	a short tale often featuring nonhuman character that act as people whose actions enable the author to make observations or draw useful lessons about human behavior. i.e Orwell's "Animal Farm"	82
2135447403	falling action	the action in a play or story that occurs after the climax and that leads to the conclusion and often to the resolution of the conflict	83
2135447404	fantasy	a story containing unreal, imaginary features	84
2135447405	farce	a comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose	85
2135447406	figurative language	in contrast to literal language, this implies meanings. It includes devices such as metaphors, similes, and personification, etc.	86
2135447407	foil	a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast	87
2135447408	first person narrative	a narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns such as "I" and "we"	88
2135447409	flashback	a return to an earlier time in a story or play in order to clarify present actions or circumstances i.e. Invisible Man	89
2135447410	foreshadowing	an event or statement in a narrative that suggests, in miniature, a larger event that comes later	90
2135447411	foot	the basic rhythmic unit of a line in poetry. it is formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed	91
2135447412	frame	a structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative	92
2135447413	free verse	a kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythm or fixed metrical feet	93
2135447414	genre	a term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, and essay	94
2135447415	Gothic novel	a novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action. i.e. "Frankenstein"	95
2135447416	harangue	a forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade	96
2135447417	hubris	the excessive pride/ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	97
2135447418	hyperbole	exaggeration/deliberate overstatement	98
2135447419	humanism	a belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity	99
2135447420	implicit	to say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly	100
2135447421	in medias res	Latin for "in the midst of things"; a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point	101
2135447422	idyll	a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place	102
2135447423	image	a word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or felt	103
2135447424	inversion	switching customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. when done badly it can give a stilted, artificial look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse. type of syntax	104
2135447425	irony	a mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm	105
2135447426	invective	a direct verbal assault; a denunciation. i.e. Candide	106
2135447427	kenning	a device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions/qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "wale-road" for ocean	107
2135447428	lament	a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	108
2135447429	lampoon	a satire	109
2135447430	light verse	a variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, butt sometimes with a satirical thrust	110
2135447431	loose sentence	a sentence that is complete before its end. follows customary word order of English sentences i.e. subject-verb-object	111
2135447432	periodic sentence	a sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase; sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end	112
2135447433	lyric	personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings about the subject; the word is used to describe tone, it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness	113
2135447434	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.	114
2135447435	litotes	a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity	115
2135447436	maxim	a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth	116
2135447437	metaphor	a figure of speech that compares unlike objects	117
2135447438	metaphysical poetry	the work of poets, particularly those of 17th c., that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life	118
2135447439	meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry	119
2135447440	metonymy	a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. e.g. "The White House says..."	120
2135447441	mode	the general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature	121
2135447442	montage	a quick succession of images/impressions used to express an idea	122
2135447443	mood	the emotional tone in a work of literature	123
2135447444	nemesis	the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	124
2135447445	objectivity	this treatment of a subject matter is an impersonal/outside view of events	125
2135447446	subjectivity	this treatment of a subject matter uses the interior/personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses	126
2135447447	onomatopoeia	words that sound like what they mean	127
2135447448	moral	a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature	128
2135447449	motif	a phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature.	129
2135447450	muse	one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. the imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer	130
2135447451	myth	an imaginary story that has become accepted part of the cultural or religious tradition of a group/society. often used to explain natural phenomena.	131
2135447452	narrative	a form of verse or prose that tells a story	132
2135447453	naturalism	a term often used as a synonym for "realism"; also a view of experiences that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic	133
2135447454	non sequitur	a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before	134
2135447455	novel of manners	a novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group	135
2135447456	ode	a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful and exalted feelings toward the subject.	136
2135447457	omniscient narrator	a narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story	137
2135447458	oxymoron	a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. juxtaposition of contradictory element to create a paradoxical effect	138
2135447459	opposition	one of the most useful concepts in analyzing literature. it means that you have a pair of elements that contrast sharply.	139
2135447460	ottava rima	an eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem	140
2135447461	parable	like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived	141
2135447462	paradox	a statement that seems self-contradictory yet true	142
2135447463	parallelism	repeated syntactical similarities used for effect	143
2135447464	parody	an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject	144
2135447465	paraphrase	a version of a text put into simpler, everyday, words	145
2135447466	pastoral	a work of literature dealing with rural life	146
2135447467	pathetic fallacy	faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects	147
2135447468	pathos	that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	148
2135447469	pentameter	a verse with five poetic feet per line	149
2135447470	persona	the role/facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, viewer, or the world at large; the narrator in a non-first-person novel	150
2135447471	personification	giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form	151
2135447472	plot	the interrelationship among the events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution	152
2135447473	picaresque novel	an episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. e.g. "Don Quixote", "Moll Flanders"	153
2135447474	plaint	a poem or speech expressing sorrow	154
2135447475	point of view	the perspective from which the action of a novel in presented.	155
2135447476	omniscient narrator	3rd person narrator who sees like God into each character's mind and understands all the action going on.	156
2135447477	limited omniscient narrator	3rd person narrator who generally reports only what one character (usually the main) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.	157
2135447478	objective narrator	3rd person narr. who only reports on what would be visible to a camera, doesn't know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it.	158
2135447479	first person narrator	this is a narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his/her POV. when the narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible, the narrator is "unreliable"	159
2135447480	prosody	the grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry	160
2135447481	protagonist	the main character in a work of literature	161
2135447482	prelude	an introductory poem to a longer work of verse	162
2135447483	pun	the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	163
2135447484	pseudonym	also called "pen name", a false name or alias used by writers. i.e Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) George Orwell (Eric Blair)	164
2135447485	quatrian	a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem	165
2135447486	refrain	a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	166
2135447487	requiem	a song of prayer for the dead	167
2135447488	realism	the depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect	168
2135447489	rhetoric	the language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience	169
2135447490	rhetorical question	a question that suggests an answer. in theory, the effect is that it causes the listener to feel they have come up with the answer themselves	170
2135447491	rhapsody	an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	171
2135447492	rhyme	the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry	172
2135447493	rhyme scheme	the patterns of rhymes within a given poem i.e. abba	173
2135447494	rhythm	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. similar to meter	174
2135447495	romance	an extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places	175
2135447496	sarcasm	a sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt	176
2135447497	satire	a literary style used to poke fun at, attack or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change. great subjects for this include hypocrisy, vanity and greed, especially if those characteristics have become institutionalized in society	177
2135447498	simile	figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as"	178
2135447499	setting	the total environment for the action in a novel/play. it includes time, place, historical milieu, and social, political and even spiritual circumstances	179
2135447500	sentimental	a term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish	180
2135447501	sentiment	a synonym for "view" or "feeling"; also refined and tender emotion in literature	181
2135447502	scansion	the act of determining the meter of a poetic line.	182
2135447503	sonnet	a popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. two types: Shakespearean and Petrarchan	183
2135447504	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. unlike an aside, it is not meant to imply that the actor acknowledges the audience's presence	184
2135447505	stanza	a group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose; a group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan	185
2135447506	stream of consciousness	a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind, e.g. Ernest Hemingway	186
2135447507	stock characters	standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc.	187
2135447508	suggest	to imply, infer indicate. goes along with the concept of implicit	188
2135447509	style	the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences and creates a structure to convey ideas	189
2135447510	subplot	a subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot	190
2135447511	subtext	the implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature	191
2135447512	summary	a simple retelling of what you've just read. what you DON'T want to do in the Open Essay section :)	192
2135447513	symbolism	a device in literature where an object represents an idea	193
2135447514	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part	194
2135447515	theme	the main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built	195
2135447516	thesis	the main position of an argument. the central contention that will be supported	196
2135447517	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject being written about. it's the characteristic emotion that pervades a work or part of a work	197
2135447518	tragic flaw	in a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise	198
2135447519	tragedy	a form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish, or even death	199
2135447520	travesty	a grotesque parody	200
2135447521	truism	a way-too-obvious truth	201
2135447522	utopia	an idealized place. imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity and peace. Sir Thomas More came up with this idea.	202
2135447523	verbal irony	a discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words	203
2135447524	verse	a synonym for poetry. also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry	204
2135447525	verisimilitude	similar to the truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is	205
2135447526	versification	the structural form of a line of verse as revealed by the number of feet it contains. i.e. monometer = 1 foot; tetrameter = 4 feet; pentameter = 5 feet, etc.	206
2135447527	villanelle	a French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of 19 lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes	207
2135447528	voice	the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. a verb is in the active voice when it expresses an action performed by its subject. a verb is in the passive voice when it expresses an action performed upon its subject or when the subject is the result of the action. Active: The crew raked the leaves. Passive: The leaves were raked by the crew.	208
2135447529	wit	the quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpectedness; the power to comment subtly and pointedly on the foibles of the passing scene	209
2135447530	zeugma	the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. "He close the door and his heart on his lost love."	210
2135447531	anastrophe	inversion of the natural or usual word order	211
2135447532	parenthesis	insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	212
2135447533	apposition	placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. "The mountain was the earth, her home."	213
2135447534	ellipsis	deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by context	214
2135447535	asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses. used to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence.	215
2135447536	polysyndeton	the deliberate use of many conjunctions. its effect is to slow down the rhythm of the sentence	216
2135447537	anaphora	repetition of the same words or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. e.g. "I have a dream..."	217
2135447538	epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses "When we first came we were very many and you were very few. Now you are many and we are getting very few."	218
2135447539	epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. "Blood hat bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows"	219
2135447540	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. "The crime was common, common be the pain."	220
2135447541	climax	the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of importance	221
2135447542	antimetabole	repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."	222
2135447543	chiasmus	reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses. "Exalts his enemies, his friends destroys."	223
2135447544	polyptoton	repetition of words derived from the same root. "But in this desert country they may see the land being rendered USELESS by OVERUSE."	224
2135447545	antanaclasis	repetition of a word in two different senses. "Your argument is sound, nothing but sound."	225
2135447546	paronomasia	use of words alike in sound but different in meaning. "ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a GRAVE man."	226
2135447547	syllepsis	the use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies/governs. "The ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen."	227
2135447548	anthimeria	the substitution of one part of speech for another "I'll UNHAIR they head."	228
2135447549	periphrasis	substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name. "They do not escape JIM CROW; they merely encounter another, not less deadly variety."	229
2135447550	autobiography	an account of a person's own life	230
2135447551	dialect	a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region/group of people	231
2135447552	epiphany	in a literary work, a moment of sudden insight/revelation that a character experiences	232
2135447553	essay	a short piece of non-fiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited POV	233
2135447554	suspense	the uncertainty/anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story	234

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AP Spanish Literature and Culture repaso Flashcards

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2537191421	Autor de El Conde Lucanor ("Historia del mancebo que casó con mujer brava")	Don Juan Manuel	0
2537191422	Época de El Conde Lucanor ("Historia del mancebo que casó con mujer brava")	Edad Media	1
2537191423	Movimiento literario de El Conde Lucanor ("Historia del mancebo que casó con mujer brava")	Literatura del exemplum/apólogos	2
2537191425	Autor del "Romance del Rey moro que perdió Alhama"	Anónimo	3
2537191426	Género literario del "Romance del Rey moro que perdió Alhama"	Poesía	4
2537191427	Época del "Romance del Rey moro que perdió Alhama"	Edad Media	5
2537191428	Género literario de El Conde Lucanor ( "Historia del mancebo que casó con mujer brava")	Narrativa / Cuento	6
2537191429	País de El Conde Lucanor ("Historia del mancebo que casó con mujer brava")	España	7
2537191430	País del "Romance del Rey moro que perdió Alhama"	España	8
2537191431	Lugar del "Romance del Rey moro que perdió Alhama"	Andalucía (Alhama, Granada)	9
2537191432	Autor de la Visión de los vencidos	Miguel León Portilla	10
2537191433	Época de la Visión de los vencidos	La Conquista/época colonial	11
2537191434	País de la Visión de los vencidos	México	12
2537191435	País de "Se ha perdido el pueblo mexica"	México	13
2537191436	Género literario de "Se ha perdido el pueblo mexica"	Poesía	14
2537191437	Época de "Se ha perdido el pueblo mexica"	La Conquista/época colonial	15
2537191438	Autor de Lazarillo de Tormes	Anónimo	16
2537191439	País de Lazarillo de Tormes	España	17
2537191440	Época de Lazarillo de Tormes	Renacimiento	18
2537191441	Subgénero de Lazarillo de Tormes	Novela Picaresca	19
2537191442	Género literario de Lazarillo de Tormes	Narrativa (Novela)	20
2537191443	País de Lazarillo de Tormes	España	21
2537191444	Dos lugares importantes en donde ocurre la acción del Lazarillo de Tormes	Salamanca, Toledo	22
2537191445	Autor de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Garcilaso de la Vega	23
2537191446	Época de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Siglo de Oro	24
2537191447	Movimiento literario de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Renacimiento	25
2537191448	País de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	España	26
2537191449	Género literario de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Poesía	27
2537191450	Tipo de poema de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Soneto	28
2537191451	Siglo de "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Siglo XVI/Siglo de oro	29
2537301638	Tema que se encuentra en "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	Carpe diem	30
2537191452	¿Cuál es el primer verso del Soneto XXIII?	"En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	31
2537191453	Autor de la "Segunda carta de relación"	Hernán Cortés	32
2537191454	Época de la "Segunda carta de relación"	La Conquista / El Renacimiento	33
2537191455	País del autor de la "Segunda carta de relación"	España	34
2537191456	Movimiento literario de la "Segunda carta de relación"	La Conquista/Las crónicas de Indias	35
2537191457	Siglo de la "Segunda carta de relación"	Siglo XVI	36
2537191458	Lugar de los hechos relatados en la "Segunda carta de relación"	Tenochtitlán, México	37
2537191459	País de los hechos relatados en la "Segunda carta de relación"	México	38
2537191467	Autor de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	39
2537191468	País de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	España	40
2537191469	Siglo de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	Barroco (Siglo XVII)	41
2537191470	Lugar de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	La Mancha	42
2537191471	Género literario de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	Narrativa (Novela)	43
2537191472	Subgénero literario de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	Novela de caballería	44
2537191483	Época de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha	Siglo de Oro	45
2537191484	Autor de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Francisco de Quevedo	46
2537191485	Época de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Siglo de Oro	47
2537191486	País de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	España	48
2537191487	Movimiento literario de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Barroco	49
2537191488	Género literario de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Poesía	50
2537191489	Tipo de poema de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Salmo	51
2537335680	Otro nombre del poema "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Salmo XVII	52
2537191490	Siglo de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Siglo XVII	53
2537191491	¿Cuál es el primer verso del Salmo XVII?	"Miré los muros de la patria mía"	54
2537326793	Movimiento literario dentro del Barroco de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Conceptismo	55
2537321835	Tema que se encuentra dentro de "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	Momento mori	56
2537191492	Autor de El burlador de Sevilla	Tirso de Molina	57
2537191493	Época de El burlador de Sevilla	Siglo de Oro	58
2537191494	País de El burlador de Sevilla	España	59
2537191495	Movimiento literario de El burlador de Sevilla	Barroco	60
2537191497	Género literario de El burlador de Sevilla	Obra de teatro	61
2537191498	Siglo de El burlador de Sevilla	Siglo XVII	62
2537191499	Dos lugares importantes de El burlador de Sevilla	Sevilla y Nápoles	63
2537191500	¿En que está escrito El burlador de Sevilla?	En verso	64
2537191514	Autor de "Las medias rojas"	Emilia Pardo Bazán	65
2537191515	País de "Las medias rojas"	España	66
2537191517	Movimiento literario de "Las medias rojas"	Naturalismo	67
2537191518	Género literario de "Las medias rojas"	Narrativa (Cuento)	68
2537191519	Siglo de "Las medias rojas"	Siglo XX	69
2537191537	Autor de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	Miguel de Unamuno	70
2537191538	País de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	España	71
2537191539	Siglo de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	Siglo XX	72
2537191540	Movimiento literario de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	La generación del 98	73
2537191541	Género literario de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	Narrativa (Novela)	74
2537191542	Lugar donde ocurren los hechos de San Manuel Bueno Mártir	Valverde de Lucerna	75
2537191543	Autor de "El hijo"	Horacio Quiroga	76
2537191544	País de "El hijo"	Uruguay	77
2537191545	Lugar en donde ocurren los hechos de "El hijo"	La selva, Argentina	78
2537191546	Siglo de "El hijo"	Siglo XX	79
2537191547	Movimiento literario de "El hijo"	Modernismo	80
2537191548	Género literario de "El hijo"	Narrativa (Cuento)	81
2537191573	Autor de "Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro"	Osvaldo Dragún	82
2537191574	País de "Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro"	Argentina	83
2537191575	Siglo de "Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro"	Siglo XX	84
2537191576	Movimiento literario de "Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro"	Teatro del absurdo	85
2537191577	Género literario de "Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro"	Obra de teatro	86
2537191588	Autor de "El Sur"	Jorge Luis Borges	87
2537191589	País de "El Sur"	Argentina	88
2537191590	Siglo de "EL Sur"	Siglo XX	89
2537191591	Movimiento literario de "El Sur"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	90
2537191592	Género literario de "El Sur"	Narrativa (Cuento)	91
2537191593	Autor de "Borges y yo"	Jorge Luis Borges	92
2537191594	País de "Borges y yo"	Argentina	93
2537191595	Siglo de "Borges y yo"	Siglo XX	94
2537191596	Movimiento literario de "Borges y yo"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	95
2537191597	Género literario de "Borges y yo"	Ensayo / Cuento	96
2537191598	Autor de "Chac Mool"	Carlos Fuentes	97
2537191599	País de "Chac Mool"	México	98
2537191600	Siglo de "Chac Mool"	Siglo XX	99
2537191601	Movimiento literario de "Chac Mool"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	100
2537191602	Género literario de "Chac Mool"	Narrativa (Cuento)	101
2537191603	Autor de "No oyes ladrar los perros"	Juan Rulfo	102
2537191604	País de "No oyes ladrar los perros"	México	103
2537191605	Siglo de "No oyes ladrar los perros"	Siglo XX	104
2537191606	Movimiento literario de "No oyes ladrar los perros"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	105
2537191607	Género literario de "No oyes ladrar los perros"	Narrativa (Cuento)	106
2537191608	Autor de "La noche boca arriba"	Julio Cortázar	107
2537191609	País de "La noche boca arriba"	Argentina	108
2537191610	Siglo de "La noche boca arriba"	Siglo XX	109
2537191611	Movimiento literario de "La noche boca arriba"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	110
2537191612	Género literario de "La noche boca arriba"	Narrativa (Cuento)	111
2537191613	Autor de "La siesta del martes"	Gabriel García Márquez	112
2537191614	País de "La siesta del martes"	Colombia	113
2537191615	Siglo de "La siesta del martes"	Siglo XX	114
2537191616	Movimiento literario de "La siesta del martes"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	115
2537191617	Género literario de "La siesta del martes"	Narrativa (Cuento)	116
2537191618	Lugar en donde ocurren los hechos de "La siesta del martes"	Macondo	117
2537191619	Autor de "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"	Gabriel García Márquez	118
2537191620	País de "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"	Colombia	119
2537191621	Siglo de "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"	Siglo XX	120
2537191622	Movimiento literario de "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"	Literatura del Boom literario latinoamericano	121
2537191623	Género literario de "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"	Narrativa (Cuento)	122
2537191635	Autor de "Mi caballo mago"	Sabine Ulibarrí	123
2537191636	País de "Mi caballo mago"	Estados Unidos	124
2537191637	Siglo de "Mi caballo mago"	Siglo XX	125
2537191638	Movimiento literario de "Mi caballo mago"	Literatura chicana	126
2537191639	Género literario de "Mi caballo mago"	Narrativa (Cuento)	127
2537191640	Autor de "Y no se lo tragó la tierra"	Tomás Rivera	128
2537191641	País de "Y no se lo tragó la tierra"	Estados Unidos	129
2537191642	Siglo de "Y no se lo tragó la tierra"	Siglo XX	130
2537191643	Movimiento literario de "Y no se lo tragó la tierra"	Literatura chicana	131
2537191644	Género literario de "Y no se lo tragó la tierra"	Narrativa (Cuento)	132
2537753659	Autor de "Borges y yo"	Jorge Luis Borges	133
2537761728	época de "Borges y yo"	Siglo XX	134
2537763663	Movimiento de "Borges y yo"	Boom	135
2537765139	País de "Borges y yo"	Argentina	136
2537766223	Género de "Borges y yo"	Narrativa/cuento; metaliteratura	137
2537769144	Tema de "Borges y yo"	la dualidad del ser	138
2537780966	Autor de "El Sur"	Jorge Luis Borges	139
2537782099	época de "El Sur"	Siglo XX	140
2537793409	Movimiento de "EL Sur"	Boom	141
2537794801	País de "El Sur"	Argentina	142
2537794802	Género de "El Sur"	Narrativa/cuento	143
2537798274	Tema de "El Sur"	la identidad/dualidad del ser, tiempo y espacio, mezcla de la realidad y la fantasia	144
2537806655	Herencias que era el protagonista	Alemán y Argentino	145
2537810760	Contexto cultural de Argentina que se encuentra en la obra	los gauchos	146
2549671449	Autor de "La noche boca arriba"	Julio Cortázar	147
2549686973	época de "La noche boca arriba"	Siglo XX	148
2549689511	movimiento de "La noche boca arriba"	Boom	149
2549690195	Tema de "La noche boca arriba"	realismo mágico	150
2549690909	Contexto histórico en "La noche boca arriba"	Las guerras floridas/los aztecas	151
2549691747	País de "La noche boca arriba"	Argentina	152
2549695262	Autor de "Chac Mool"	Carlos Fuentes	153
2549697709	época de "Chac Mool"	Siglo XX	154
2549697710	movimiento de "Chac Mool"	Boom	155
2549698617	Tema de "Chac Mool"	el realismo mágico	156
2549699282	Protagonista cultural de "Chac Mool"	Chac mool/dios de la lluvia	157
2549700279	A qué tribu pertenece "Chac Mool"	los Mayas	158

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2323213579	Allegory	story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities	0
2323215330	Alliteration	repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together	1
2323216280	Allusion	reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture (an indirect reference to something)	2
2323218201	Ambiguity	deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work (an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way, which is done on purpose by the author. When it is not on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work)	3
2323222096	Analogy	comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	4
2323222756	Anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row (this is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent)	5
2323225690	Anastrophe	inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence (purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. Fancy word for inversion)	6
2323230299	Anecdote	brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something (often shows character of an individual)	7
2323232163	Antagonist	opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero/protagonist in a story	8
2323232529	Antimetabole	repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (chiasmus in poetry)	9
2323234903	Antithesis	balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	10
2323237443	Antihero	central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes (may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples)	11
2323238452	Anthropomorphism	attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate objects (personification)	12
2323239208	Aphorism	brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth (maxim, epigram)	13
2323240174	Apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or abstract idea (if the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation)	14
2323243847	Apposition	placing an immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a coon)	15
2323245427	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together	16
2323247065	Asyndeton	commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally	17
2323248192	Balance	constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance (sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well)	18
2323250499	Characterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	19
2323250992	Indirect Characterization	the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the characters' private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action (common in modern literature)	20
2323257255	Direct Characterization	the author tells us directly what the character is like (especially relevant in Romantic style)	21
2323258274	Static Character	a character that does not change much in the course of a story	22
2323259020	Dynamic Character	a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action	23
2323259807	Flat Character	a character that has only one or two personality traits, which are one dimensional (they can be summed up in one phrase)	24
2323262519	Round Character	a character that have more dimension to their personalities (they are complex, just like real people)	25
2323267759	Chiasmus	in poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (antimetabole in prose)	26
2323273643	Cliche	a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse	27
2323279114	Colloquialism	a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations	28
2323280666	Comedy	in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters	29
2323281712	Conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different (often an extended metaphor)	30
2323283503	Confessional Poetry	a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life	31
2323285778	Conflict	the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story	32
2323292477	External Conflict	conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person and a whole society	33
2323293533	Internal Conflict	a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind	34
2323294046	Connotation	the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition	35
2323295667	Couplet	two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry	36
2323295867	Dialect	a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area	37
2323297521	Diction	a speaker or writer's choice of words	38
2323297772	Didactic	form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking	39
2323301496	Elegy	a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died	40
2323302805	Eulogy	great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died	41
2323304558	Epanalepsis	device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and end of the line, clause, or sentence	42
2323305765	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	43
2323307582	Epigraph	a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme	44
2323308282	Epistrophe	device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (opposite of anaphora)	45
2323311201	Epithet	an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality	46
2323316337	Homeric Epithet	a compound adjective used with a person or thing	47
2323317663	Essay	a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject	48
2323319342	Type of Essay: Argumentation	one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way	49
2323320222	Type of Argumentation: Persuasion	relies more on emotional appeals than on facts	50
2323320616	Type of Argumentation: Argument	form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way	51
2323321864	Type of Argumentation: Causal Relationship	form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument	52
2323322516	Type of Essay: Description	a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion	53
2323322831	Type of Essay: Exposition	one of the four major forms of discourse, in which something is explained	54
2323323204	Type of Essay: Narrative	the form of discourse that tells about a series of events	55
2323323826	Explication	act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language	56
2323324520	Fable	a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life	57
2323325026	Farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations	58
2323328049	Figurative Language	words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe (similes, metaphors, etc)	59
2323328679	Flashback	a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time	60
2323329889	Foil	a character who acts as contrast to another character	61
2323330187	Foreshadowing	the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot	62
2323330399	Free Verse	poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme	63
2323330908	Hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect	64
2323331441	Hypotactic	sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them	65
2323332320	Hypotaxis	use of a syntactic subordination of just one clause to another	66
2323332798	Imagery	the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience	67
2323333345	Inversion	the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase	68
2323333676	Irony	a discrepancy between appearances and reality	69
2323333869	Verbal Irony	occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else	70
2323334535	Situational Irony	takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen	71
2323335334	Dramatic Irony	(often used on stage) a character in the play/story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better	72
2323336401	Juxtaposition	poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases, are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit (also a form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas or images or metaphors)	73
2323337813	Litotes	a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form	74
2323339327	Local Color	applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape	75
2323342868	Loose Sentence	one in which a main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units (periodic sentence)	76
2323343716	Lyric Poem	a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings of thoughts of the speaker	77
2323344327	Ballad	a poem that tells a story	78
2323344500	Metaphor	a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words or comparison as like, as, than, or resembles	79
2323346059	Implied Metaphor	does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison	80
2323346614	Extended Metaphor	a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it (conceit if it is quite elaborate)	81
2323348185	Dead Metaphor	a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid	82
2323352022	Mixed Metaphor	a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible	83
2323353342	Metonymy	a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it	84
2323354655	Mood	an atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected	85
2323355434	Motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme	86
2323365580	Motivation	the reasons for a character's behavior	87
2323366031	Onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sounds echo their sense	88
2323367823	Oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	89
2323368262	Parable	a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life	90
2323368758	Paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth	91
2323369376	Koan	a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge	92
2323370079	Parallel Structure	(parallelism) the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	93
2323371050	Paratactic Sentence	simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences	94
2323371496	Parody	a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style	95
2323372021	Periodic	sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements	96
2323373167	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	97
2323373416	Plot	the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline	98
2323996577	Characteristic of Plot: Exposition	introduces characters, situation, and setting	99
2324004939	Characteristic of Plot: Rising Action	complications in conflict and situations (may introduce new ones as well)	100
2324008350	Characteristic of Plot: Climax	that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest (also called turning point)	101
2324013374	Characteristic of Plot: Resolution	the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled (often called the denouement)	102
2324016210	Point of View	the vantage point from which the writer tells the story	103
2324016554	First Person Point of View	one of the characters tells the story	104
2324016786	Third Person Point of View	an unknown narrator tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character	105
2324018984	Omniscient Point of View	an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns (instead of focusing on one character, this narrator often tells us everything about many characters)	106
2324022861	Objective Point of View	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story (does not comment on any characters or events)	107
2324024245	Polysyndeton	sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series	108
2324025072	Protagonist	the central character in a story, the one who initiates the drive or action (usually the hero or antihero, and in a tragic hero, there is always a hamartia/tragic flaw in his character which will lead to his downfall)	109
2324027170	Pun	a play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things	110
2325667344	Quatrain	a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit	111
2325669040	Refrain	a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem	112
2325670119	Rhythm	a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language	113
2325672245	Rhetoric	art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse	114
2325672937	Rhetorical Question	a question asked for an effect and not actually requiring an answer	115
2325676504	Romance	in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful	116
2325677923	Satire	a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in a attempt to bring about a change	117
2325678812	Simile	a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles	118
2325682131	Soliloquy	a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage	119
2325682521	Stereotype	a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality and is often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices	120
2325684223	Stream of Consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind	121
2325685670	Style	the distinctive way in which a writer uses language (distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax)	122
2325687138	Suspense	a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story	123
2325687632	Symbol	a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself	124
2325688722	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole	125
2325689618	Syntactic Fluency	ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length	126
2325694853	Syntactic Permutation	sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved (often difficult for a reader to follow)	127
2325696278	Tall Tale	an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable	128
2325699059	Telegraphic Sentence	a sentence shorter than five words in length	129
2325699470	Theme	the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work	130
2325699693	Tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization	131
2325701357	Tragedy	in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end	132
2325701932	Tricolon	sentence of three parts of equal importance and length (usually three independent clauses)	133
2325702865	Understatement	a statement that says less than what is meant	134
2325704008	Unity	unified parts of the writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle (dependent upon coherence)	135
2325705308	Vernacular	the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality	136
2325705786	Impressionism	a nineteenth century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality	137
2325710994	Modernism	a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century	138
2325715914	Naturalism	a nineteenth century literary movement that was an extension of Realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was	139
2325717028	Plain Style	writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression (but will still utilize allusions and metaphors), and was the main form of the Puritan writers	140
2325720207	Puritanism	(writing style of America's early English speaking colonists) emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems	141
2325722030	Rationalism	a movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the Church, or an institution (also called Neoclassicism and Age of Reason)	142
2325724780	Realism	a style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it	143
2325726164	Regionalism	literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region	144
2325728336	Romanticism	a revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century	145
2325730079	Surrealism	(a movement in art and literature that started in Europe during the 1920s) surrealists wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind, which they considered to be more real than the real world of appearances	146
2325736597	Symbolism	a literary movement that originated in the late nineteenth century France in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality	147
2325737654	Transcendentalism	a nineteenth century movement in Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience	148

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AP Literature Vocabulary ( Phobia ) Flashcards

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3154852129	Acrophobia	Fear of being at a great height	0
3154858409	Agoraphobia	Fear of open spaces	1
3154861303	Anglophobia	Dislike of England or the English	2
3154867906	Claustrophobia	Fear of confined spaces	3
3154871530	Germanophobia	Dislike of Germany or the German	4
3154880869	Hydrophobia	Rabies ( Fear of water )	5
3154888995	Monophobia	Fear of being alone	6
3154890679	Phobia	Fear; Dislike; Aversion	7
3154894078	Photophobia	Morbid aversion to light	8
3154899223	Xenophobia	Aversion to foreigners	9

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AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

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2420857720	Alliteration	the repetition of initial consonant sounds Ex. "full fathom five thy father lies" the repeated "f" sound is alliterative	0
2420857721	Anastrophe	inversion of the usual order of words	1
2420857722	Antithesis	figure of speech where contrasting words or ideas are placed in close proximity	2
2420857723	Assonance	the effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different. Ex. 'or sinking as the light wind lives or dies' displays assonance due to the repeated use of the "I" vowel sound	3
2420857724	Blank Verse	verse that does not employ a rhyme scheme but is not the same as free verse because this verse has a meter	4
2420857725	Cacophony	harsh, unpleasant sounds within a line or lines of poetry	5
2420857726	Cliché	hackneyed or timeworn expression Ex. "busy as bees"	6
2420857727	Connotation	the feelings associated with a word Ex. house and home	7
2420857728	Consonance	the effect created when words share the same stressed consonant sounds but where the vowels differ Ex. "brick and clock" or "black and block"	8
2420857729	Couplet	a stanza comprising two lines	9
2420857730	Denotation	dictionary definition of a word	10
2420857731	End rhyme	a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses Ex. "Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village, though"	11
2420857732	Euphony	pleasing sound; usually of words or phrases	12
2420857733	Extended metaphor	a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem	13
2420857734	Foot	a basic unit of a meter	14
2420857735	Free verse	verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse, instead, relies on the natural rhythms of everyday speech	15
2420857736	Hyperbole	exaggeration for dramatic effect	16
2420857737	Imagery	the creation of images using words	17
2420857738	Internal rhyme	either where a word in the middle of a line of poetry rhymes with the word at the end of the line or where two words in midsentence rhyme	18
2420857739	Line	a basic structural component of a poem. Lines can be written in free form, in syllabic form (e.g. haiku) or in metrical form	19
2420857740	Metaphor	an imaginative comparison between two actions/objects etc. which is not literally applicable	20
2420857741	Meter	the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry	21
2420857742	Mood	the atmosphere suggested by the setting and diction of the piece, which conjures up an emotional response on the reader's part	22
2420857743	Onomatopoeia	the sound of the word suggests its meaning - the pattern of sound echoes the denotation of the word	23
2420857744	Personification	a figure of speech that connects ideas, abstractions, or inanimate objects with human form	24
2420857745	Refrain	one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. A refrain may have slight variations, sometimes of great significance	25
2420857746	Rhyme	sound correspondence often found at the ends of lines of poetry (end rhyme) or within the line (internal rhyme). Rhyme unifies a stanza, and separates it from the next one or, if enjambment is used, it creates a sense of forward movement	26
2420857747	Rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyming sounds, indicated by a letter of the alphabet for each similar sound	27
2420857748	Simile	a similarity between two essentially unlike things that is directly expressed, using the words like or as	28
2420857749	Sonnet	fixed form that derives from the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet, 14 lines of iambic pentameter divided into an octave and a sestet and rhyming abbaabba cdecde. Its Elizabethan (Shakespearean) form is 14 line poem of iambic pentameter that is divided into three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg	29
2420857750	Stanza	groups of lines with breaks between, named for their number of lines	30
2420857751	Stress	the emphasis on a word	31
2420857752	Style	the writing technique of an author	32
2420857753	Syllabication	looking at a poem for all of its techniques	33
2420857754	Syntax	the arrangement of words within a sentence. Includes sentence length and complexity; the variety and pattern of sentence form; inversion of natural word order; unusual juxtaposition; repetition; parallelism; use of active or passive voice; level of discourse; order, including emphatic or subordinate position of elements, etc	34

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AP Spanish Literature Reading List Flashcards

Match Authors with their works

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1932526120	Isabel Allende (siglo XX, Chile)	"Dos palabras"	0
1932526121	Anónimo (Edad media, reconquista, España)	"Romance de la pérdida de Alhama"	1
1932526122	Anónimo (España, Siglo de Oro, novela picaresca)	Lazarillo de Tormes (Prólogo; Tratados 1, 2, 3, 7)	2
1932526123	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (España, siglo XIX, romanticismo)	Rima LIII ("Volverán las oscuras golondrinas")	3
1932526124	Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, siglo XX)	"Borges y yo" y "El Sur"	4
1932526125	Julia de Burgos (siglo XX, 1914-1953, Femenismo, Posmodernismo, Puerto Rico)	"A Julia de Burgos"	5
1932526126	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616, España, Siglo XVII, 1605 primera parte y 1615 segunda parte)	Don Quijote (Parte I, capítulos 1-5, 8 y 9; Parte II, capítulo 74)	6
1932526127	Julio Cortázar (s. XX, 1914-1984, Realismo mágico, Boom latinoamericano, Argentino)	"La noche boca arriba"	7
1932526128	Hernán Cortés (Conquista, 1520, Nueva España, Crónica documental, Época colonial, Siglo de Oro, Renacimiento)	"Segunda carta de relación" (selecciones)	8
1932526129	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695 Período Literario Siglo XVII, El barroco, Época colonial, México)	"Hombres necios que acusáis"	9
1932526130	Rubén Darío (1867-1916, Nicaragüense, Modernismo, poesía del siglo XX)	"A Roosevelt"	10
1932526131	Don Juan Manuel (1282-1349 • Prosa ficción de la Época Medieval, Función didáctica, España)	El Conde Lucanor. "Exemplo XXXV" "De lo que aconteció a un mozo que casó con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava"	11
1932526132	DE OSVALDO DRAGÚN (1929-1999, Argentino, Teatro del siglo XX, Vanguardismo, Teatro de lo absurdo)	El hombre que se convirtió en perro	12
1932526133	Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012, Realismo mágico, Boom latinoaméricano, mexicano)	"Chac Mool"	13
1932526134	Federico García Lorca (1898-1936, Generación del '27, Vanguardismo, Surrealismo, Español, Gitano, Andaluz, dramaturgo, poeta)	La casa de Bernarda Alba y "Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla"	14
1932526135	Gabriel García Márquez (1927- , Realismo mágico, Boom, Colombia)	"El ahogado más hermoso del mundo" y "La siesta del martes"	15
1932526136	Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536, Siglo de oro, Renacimiento, Soneto, España)	Soneto XXIII "En tanto que de rosa y azucena"	16
1932526137	Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627, Siglo de oro, Barroco, Soneto, Culteranismo, España)	Soneto CLXVI "Mientras por competir con tu cabello"	17
1932526138	Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989, cubano, poeta, siglo XX, Vanguardismo, poesía negra, afrocubana)	"Balada de los dos abuelos"	18
1932526139	José María Heredia (1808-1842, Cubano, Romanticismo, Neoclasicismo tardío)	"En una tempestad"	19
1932526140	Miguel León-Portilla (Historiador, s. XX, Compilador de Bernardino de Rivera, Ribera o Ribeira Sahagún, León, España ca. 1499-Ciudad de México, 5 de febrero de 1590)	Visión de los vencidos: "Los presagios, según los informantes de Sahagún" y "Se ha perdido el pueblo Mexicatl"	20
1932526141	Antonio Machado (1875-1939, Español, Poesía del siglo XX, Generación del '98)	"He andado muchos caminos"	21
1932526142	José Martí (1853-1895, Modernismo, siglo XIX, cubano)	"Nuestra América"	22
1932526143	Rosa Montero (1951-, Española, Narrativa y ensayo del siglo XX, feminismo)	"Como la vida misma"	23
1932526144	Nancy Morejón (La Habana, 7 de agosto de 1944 - , poetisa, dramaturga, ensayista y traductora cubana)	"Mujer negra"	24
1932526145	Pablo Neruda (1904-1973, Chileno, Poesía del siglo XX, Vanguardismo)	"Walking around"	25
1932526146	Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921, España, Naturalismo y Realismo, finales del siglo XIX)	"Las medias rojas"	26
1932526147	Francisco de Quevedo (Finales del Siglo de Oro, Barroco, Decadencia del imperio español, España)	Salmo XVII "Miré los muros de la patria mía"	27
1932526148	Horacio Quiroga (1878- 1937, Uruguayo, Realismo/Naturalismo, Modernismo)	"El hijo"	28
1932526149	Tomás Rivera (Crystal City, Texas, 1935-1984, autor, poeta y pedagogo chicano, rector de Universidad de California en Riverside.)	...y no se lo tragó la tierra (dos capítulos: "...y no se lo tragó la tierra" y "La noche buena")	29
1932526150	Juan Rulfo (Prosa del siglo XX, Boom, México, 1918-1986)	"No oyes ladrar los perros"	30
1932526151	Alfonsina Storni (Argentina, Poesía del siglo XX, Modernismo, Feminismo)	" Peso ancestral"	31
1932526152	Tirso de Molina (pseudonimo de fray Gabriel Téllez, 1579-1648, Barroco, Siglo XVII • publicado en 1630, España)	El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra	32
1932526153	Sabine Ulibarrí (1919-2003, Estadounidense, del estado de Nuevo México, es uno de los autores estadounidenses más reconocidos que escribe en español, Literatura chicana, Prosa del siglo XX)	"Mi caballo mago"	33
1932526154	Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936, Generación del '98, España, rector de la Universidad de Salamanca)	San Manuel Bueno, mártir	34

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AP World History Period 1 Flashcards

From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins

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4853981720	Hunting and Gathering	Means of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization	0
4853981721	Civilization	Societies with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups	1
4853981722	Paleolithic	The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 B.C.E.; typified by use of evolving stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence	2
4853981723	Neolithic	The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished	3
4853981724	Nomads	Cattle- and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies	4
4853981725	Culture	Combination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction	5
4853981726	Homo sapiens	The species of humanity that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic	6
4853981727	Agrarian revolution	Occurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture	7
4853981728	Pastoralism	A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies	8
4853981729	Catal Huyuk	Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification	9
4853981730	Bronze Age	From 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing	10
4853981731	Mesopotamia	Literally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys	11
4853981732	Potter's wheel	A technological advance in pottery making; invented circa 6000 B.C.E.; encouraged faster and higher-quality ceramic pottery products	12
4853981733	Sumerians	People who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states	13
4853981734	Cuneiform	A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets	14
4853981735	City-state	A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king	15
4853981736	Ziggurats	Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple connections	16
4853981737	Babylonian Empire	Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion circa 1600 B.C.E.	17
4853981738	Hammurabi	The most important Babylonian ruler; responsible for codification of the law	18
4853981739	Pharaoh	The term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; the term, "great house" refers to the palace of the pharaohs	19
4853981740	Pyramids	Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs	20
4853981741	Hieroglyphs	Form of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictorial than Mesopotamian cuneiform	21
4853981742	Kush	African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries	22
4853981743	Monotheism	The exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization	23
4853981744	Phoenicians	Seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean	24
4853981745	Harappa and Mohenjo Daro	Major urban complexes of Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern	25
4853981746	Aryans	Indo-European nomadic, warlike, pastorialists who replaced Harappan civilization	26
4853981747	Huanghe (Yellow) River Basin	Site of the development of sedentary agriculture in China	27
4853981748	Shang	1st Chinese dynasty	28
4853981749	Oracles	Shamans or priests in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpreting animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing	29
4853981750	Ideographic writing	Pictograph characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing	30
4853981751	Big Geography	A term that draws attention to the global nature of world history.	31
4853981752	Paleolithic	The period that ended about 3,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, it lasted until about 10,000 years ago. (Old Stone Age) The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.	32
4853981753	Path of migration for humans during Paleolithic era	From Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas	33
4853981754	Eglitarian	Believing in the equality of all peoples	34
4853981755	During the Paleolithic era, fire was used in new ways including ___ (list 3)	aid hunting and foraging protect against predators adapt to cold environments	35
4853981756	Humans developed a wider range of ____ specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra	tools	36
4853981757	Neolithic Revolution	Global conversion to agriculture over hunter-gatherer lifestyles	37
4853981758	Name the advantages of agriculture	more reliable and abundant food	38
4853981759	name the disadvantages of agriculture	disease, malnutrition, crop reliance, etc.	39
4853981760	_____ and _____ developed, giving elite men concentrated power over most of the other people in their societies.	Patriarchy Forced labor systems	40
4853981761	Patriarchy	Father based	41
4853981762	Permanent agricultural villages emerged first in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly as a response to what?	climatic change	42
4853981763	had to work cooperatively to clear land and create water control systems needed for crop rotation.	Agricultural communities	43
4853981764	Technological innovations led to ____	improvements in agricultural production, trade, and transportation	44
4853981765	name 5 improvements in agricultural production, trade, and transportation	Pottery Plows Woven Textiles Metallurgy	45
4853981766	civilization	large societies with cities with powerful states	46
4853981767	first urban societies developed ____ years ago or around _____.	5000 years ago 3000 BC	47
4853981768	identify 6 core foundational civilizations	Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys Egypt in the Nile River Valley Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley Shang in the Yellow River or Huang He Valley Olmecs in Mesoamerica Chavin in Andean South America	48
4853981769	Pastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of of ____ and ___ that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations	new weapons modes of transportation	49
4853981770	name one mode of new transportation by the pastoralists	Chariots Horseback riding	50
4853981771	Early civilizations developed ____ and ____	monumental architecture urban planning	51
4853981772	Elites, both political and religious, promoted ____ and ____	arts artisanship	52
4853981773	____ arose independently arose independently in all early civilization and subsequently were diffused	systems of record keeping	53
4853981774	the first legal code was ______, developed by _____	Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi	54
4853981775	_____ developed in this period continued to have strong influences in later periods	New religious beliefs	55
4853981776	name 3 new religious beliefs	the Vedic religion Hebrew monotheism Zoroastrianism	56
4853981777	trade expanded throughout this period from __ to __ and ___, with civilizations exchanging goods, cultural ideas, and technology.	from local to regional and transregional	57
4853981778	name 2 examples of trade expansion	Between Egypt and Nubia Between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley	58
4853981779	____ was also a reflection of culture	literature	59

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AP Literature Flashcards

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5259413764	Flash Back	The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narritive	0
5259413765	Perls before swine	Don't give to those who don't appreciate	1
5259413766	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant(sanitation engineer)	2
5259413767	Crossing the Rubicon	Impossible task	3
5259413768	Diction	The kinds and levels of words chosen by writer	4
5259413769	Sacred Cow	Something you don't mess with preferably	5
5259413770	Chiasmas	A statement consisting of two parallel parts structurally reversed	6
5259413771	Pound of Flesh	Insist on being paid even if harms debtor	7
5259413772	Allegory	A work of art intending to be not meaningful of two levels of understanding	8
5259413773	Achilles Heel	A mighty heroes unexpected weakness	9
5263753069	Hubris	Excessive pride or arrogance that leads to the downfall of the protagonist	10
5263753070	Once in a blue moon	Rarely happens	11
5263753071	Idiom	An expression that cannot be taken literally	12
5263806327	Mrs. Grundy	Narrow-minded, conventional, prudish	13
5263806328	Juxtaposition	Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast	14
5263806329	Crocodile Tears	Fake tears	15
5263806330	Litotes	Understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating it's opposite.	16
5263806331	Sirens	Anything that takes you away from safety toward a destructive path	17
5263806332	Motif	A standard theme element or dramatic situation that recurs in various works	18
5263806333	Read the Riot act	Warning of bad behavior, there will be a consequence	19
5263806334	11		20
5263806335	12		21
5263806336	Scape goat	A person or group that takes the blame for another	22
5263806337	Ivory tower	Secluded and out of touch with society(negotiate connotations)	23
5263806338	Venacular	The everyday speech of particular culture. Often non standard usage	24
5263806339	Sound & fury	Significant nothing. Bigger than it is.	25
5263806340	Syllepsis	A construction in which one word is used in two different senses	26
5263806341	All that glitters is not gold.	False gold, not what it seems	27

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AP Literature Terms Flashcards

Lit Terms for the Lanese Midterm!

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2499356781	alliteration	repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words	0
2499356782	assonance	repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds	1
2499356783	consonance	repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds	2
2499356784	cacophony	harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words	3
2499356785	euphony	pleasant, easy to articulate words	4
2499356786	onomatopoeia	use of words which mimic their meaning in sound	5
2499356788	allegory	characters are symbols (i.e. "Faith," "Hope"), has a moral	6
2499356789	apostrophe	someone absent, dead, or imaginary, or an abstraction (i.e. "Death"), is being addressed as if it could reply	7
2499356790	didactic poetry	poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching	8
2499356791	dramatic monologue	character "speaks" through the poem; a character study	9
2499356792	elegy	poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme	10
2499356793	sonnet	14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) - introduces a problem or idea and provides a response or comment or "argument"	11
2499356794	connotation	what a word suggests beyond its surface definition	12
2499356795	denotation	basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word	13
2499356796	diction	choice of words for effect	14
2499356797	syntax	word order or grammatical pattern (i.e. parallel syntax is the repetition of the same pattern)	15
2499356798	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter - common in Shakespeare's plays	16
2499356799	caesura	a pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation	17
2499356800	couplet	two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work (each Act in a Shakespeare play ends with one of these)	18
2499356801	enjambment	describes a line of poetry in which the grammatical unit (generally, a sentence) continues on to the next line	19
2499356803	free verse	no fixed meter or rhyme	20
2499370789	heroic epic	a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero	21
2499356804	iambic pentameter	70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables (da-DUM, da-DUM)	22
2499356805	internal rhyme	repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line)	23
2499356807	meter	regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approximately equal intervals of time	24
2499356808	refrain	repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern	25
2499356809	rhyme	repetition of end sounds	26
2499356810	rhythm	recurrence of sound in a work of literature (just like in a song)	27
2499356811	stanza	group of lines in a poem	28
2499356812	structure	internal organization of a poem's content, can be a fixed form (i.e. a sonnet) or developed by the poet (i.e. free verse)	29
2499356813	allusion	a reference to something in literature, history, or the Bible	30
2499356814	anaphora	repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines	31
2499356815	archetype	a character or personality type found in every culture (i.e. the mother figure, the hero, the villain)	32
2499356816	conceit	an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor, usually extended throughout the poem	33
2499356817	hyperbole	exaggeration, overstatement	34
2499356818	imagery	representation through language of a sensory experience	35
2499356819	irony	incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational	36
2499356820	metaphor	implied or direct non-literal comparison	37
2499356821	metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)	38
2499356822	mood	the emotion prompted in the reader or the "atmosphere" of a work	39
2499356823	oxymoron	compact paradox in which two successive words contradict each other ("sweet sorrow")	40
2499356824	pace	tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of a work, influences the mood and atmosphere	41
2499356825	paradox	statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements	42
2499356826	parallelism	presents coordinating ideas with the same structure ("I came, I saw, I conquered.")	43
2499410299	pastoral	a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life	44
2499356827	persona	assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker'	45
2499356828	personification	giving a non-human the characteristics of a human	46
2499356829	simile	comparison using 'like' or 'as'	47
2499356830	style	an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage	48
2499356831	symbolism	something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is	49
2499356832	synecdoche	symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board)	50
2499356833	theme	central idea or argument of a work	51
2499356834	tone	writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly	52
2499356835	understatement	saying less than one means, for effect	53
2499443759	ode	a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea	54
2499467865	ballad	a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing	55
2499474209	lyric	expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet directly to a reader	56

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5128813353	Abstract	-contents summary of book, article, or formal speech -summarize writing	0
5128824215	Allegory	-using character and/or story elements to symbolically represent a figurative meaning + a literal meaning. -to teach a moral lesson	1
5128884850	Alliteration	-repetition of sounds -reinforce meaning	2
5128889868	Allusion	-a direct or indirect reference to something presumably commonly known -enables writer to simplify complex ideas and emotions	3
5128914298	Ambiguity	-multiple meanings, whether intentional/unintentional, of a word, sentence, phrase, or passage -lending a deeper meaning to a literary work	4
5128927631	Analogy	-comparison of a relationship between 2 different things -make writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging	5
5128964073	Anecdote	-a short interesting story -demonstrate some point or make readers and listeners laugh	6
5128965645	Antecedent	- a word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	7
5129018376	Anticlimactic	-event far less important than original expected -convey descent in power; a disappointing conclusion	8
5129049120	Antithesis	-2 opposite ideas put together in 1 sentence to achieve contrasting effect -convey meaning more vividly than original meaning	9
5129074321	Aphorism	-truth or opinion statement expressed in concise and witty manner -contains truth to gives them universal acceptance	10
5129102539	Apostrophe	-figure of speech directly addressing imaginary person -add familiarity or emotional intensity	11
5129102540	Assertion	-statement in literature -a) qualified: limited b) unqualified: not limited	12
5129107349	Asyndecton	-intentionally eliminate conjunctions between phrases and sentences but maintain grammatical accuracy -given off emphasis on text; speed up rhythm of words	13
5129107350	Caricature	-writing which aspects of character of character are exaggerated in a silly or comic device	14
5129170645	Chiasmus	-2 or more clauses balanced in reversal structure to produce artistic effect(s) -help writer create special artistic effect to lay emphasis on what they want to communicate	15
5129170646	Clause	-grammatical until containing a subject and verb	16
5129172448	Cliche	-overused expression losing its original meaning -offer cultural reliability	17
5129172449	Climax	-conflict reaches highest point -helps reader understand significance in rising action earlier to this point	18
5129174651	Colloquialism	-slang in speech or writing -impart a sense of realism in the reader	19
5129174652	Conceit	-a fanciful expression used sometimes in metaphor or analogy - display intellectual cleverness as a result of unusual comparison being made	20
5129267329	Connotation	-implied, suggested meaning of a word -may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes	21
5129277987	Counterargument	-an argument that refutes an assertion or claim -used to strengthen claims and invalidate arguments	22
5129283926	Cynicism	-bitter or distrustful attitude	23
5129288819	Denotation	-strict dictionary definition of a word -devoid any attitude, emotion, or color	24
5129293197	Diatribe	-violent or bitter criticism on something or someone -makes readers aware of good and bad qualities of objects and persons being questioned	25
5129305161	Diction	-writers word choices -helps create author's style	26
5129310658	Didactic	-teaching in greek -instructing, especially ethnics and moral principles	27
5129319927	Digression	-temporary departure from main subject to explain background details -provide description of character, background information, establish interest, and create suspense	28
5129356120	Dogma	-principle(s) set laid by authority -to imply absolute certainty or truth	29
5129368852	Elegy/Elegiac	-poem or song written in honor of someone deceased -help with the mourning of the death of individual	30
5129404896	Epilogue	-chapter at the end of a literary work that concludes it -satisfies readers curiosity by covering up the looses end of the characters	31
5129375935	Epiphany	-(moment in story) character achieves realization -point out turning plot in the near plot future	32
5129417027	Euphemism	-more agreeable substitutes of a unpleasant word -adhere standards to social or political correctness	33
5141468655	Extended Metaphor	comparison between 2 different things throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines of a poem -allows author to make larger comparison between 2 notions	34
5141473300	Extended Simile	-showing comparison of 2 different things (similarities) -offer a new ways of thinking and larger perspective of our world	35
5141479218	Fallacies	-error in logic reasoning of argument	36
5141480348	Farce	-highly exaggerated comedy aimed at entertaining the audience -deeper implications of the usage of satirical elements	37
5141483969	Figurative Language	-writing of speech carrying no literal meaning -compare dissimilar things to create a connection with the reader and subject	38
5141483970	Genre	-major category into which literary work fits into -	39
5141484343	Homily	-serious talk involving spiritual or moral advice -open the reader's conscience	40
5141491435	Hyperbole	-figure of speech using high amounts of exaggeration -produce irony and catch reader's attention	41
5141491781	Hypothetical question/example	-statements or questions of something that is imaginary rather than real -gain generalized answer in most such situations in absense with dependable data	42
5141499515	Imagery	-visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work - apply to total imagery at work	43
5141499516	Imperative Mood	-grammatical mood that commands or requests -not only stir the reader, but cause action in them too	44
5141500140	Intensifier	-word/phrase to enhance a word -project confidence and provide assurance in writing	45
5141500520	Invective	-speech/writing that attacks or insults a person, topic -highlight author's feelings at the time of point	46
5141500521	Inversion	-normal order of words are reversed -achieve stylistic effects	47
5141500960	Irony	-contrast between what is said and what is really meant -create humor	48
5141501801	Jargon	-usage of specific phrases in situations by writer -shows dexterity of writer having knowledge in other spheres.	49

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