AP Terms Flashcards

151018442	name the Ex here: Stars & Stripes	synecdoche-form of metaphor in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole thing	0
151018443	time and place	setting	1
151018645	everyday spoken language of people in a certain region	vernacular	2
151020148	a group of lines in a poem	stanza	3
151020149	word choice	diction	4
151020150	arrangement of sentence structure	syntax	5
151020151	in a drama, where a character speaks alone onstage	soliloquy	6
151020152	in a drama, a long uninterrupted speech	monologue	7
151020153	in poetry, stanza made of 4 lines	quatrain	8
151020154	a reason that explains why a character does what he does	motivation	9
151020851	statement that seems contradictory. Ex: "It was the worst of times, it was the best of times."	paradox	10
153303666	a figure of speech (trope) in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary "not so much" or he's "not a bad singer."	litotes	11
153303667	A figure of speech (trope) involving exaggeration for comic effect	hyperbole	12
153303668	A statement that seem self contradictory,"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."	paradox	13
153303669	juxtaposing two opposite words to present a paradox "friendly fire", "open secret".	oxymoron	14
153303670	a recurring image or phrase in a work	leitmotif	15
153303671	latin for "in the middle of". Technique whereby a narrative begins in the middle of the action.	in media res	16
153303672	rhetorical figure where words are presented in mirrored order. "Fair is foul & foul is fai". Derived from the X shaped Greek letter chi.	chiasmus	17
153303673	evasion in speech; using a large number of words to explain something	circumlocution	18
153303674	an insult or abuse	invective	19
153303675	a kind of apostrophe (personification)involving a direct request for help in writing to a divine/supernatural entity.	invocation	20
153303676	using words that sound like they are such as sizzle or pop, bam.	onomatopoeia	21
153303677	sad or depressed state of being. Poor Hamlet suffered this condition	melancholy	22
153303678	A long lyric poem usually meditating on a lofty subject such as death in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale".	ode	23
153303679	poem written for someone who has passed	Elegy	24
153303680	A 14 line poem of 3 quatrains ending in a rhyming couplet	Elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet	25
153303681	14 line poem of an octave + a sestet presenting a problem in the first part & solution in the last part	Petrarchan sonnet	26
153314977	Name the lit term used here: "He is as wise as Solomon"	Biblical allusion	27
153314978	Name the lit term used here: "He displayed Herculean strength"	Mythological allusion	28
153321055	WORDS YOU SHOULD NEVER USE IN AN ESSAY!!!!!!	"very", "great", "a lot", "phenomenal"	29
153321056	subjects you should discuss in every essay	tone & theme	30
153321395	author's attitude toward his work. Sniff out diction & syntax for clues to this necessary essay topic!	TONE	31
153322062	tragic flaw; a tragic hero's flaw brings about his own destruction. Ex: Oedipus Rex	hamartia	32
153322932	excessive pride that brings about one's fall	hubris	33
153322933	a metric foot in poetry consisting of two stressed syllables. Ex: "full moon," "see breeze"	spondee	34
153324115	also referred to as interior monologue, it's narrative that features the mental flow of characters such as Faulkner's "The Sound & The Fury"	stream of consciousness	35
153326962	an image, myth, religion, folklore frequently used in literature thats evokes emotion bc it touches something deep within our unconscious memory	archetype	36
153326963	a sudden realization of the truth	epiphany	37
153326964	resolution of a story	denouement	38
153326965	repetition of initial consonant sounds "The bee buzzed by"	alliteration	39
153326966	repetition of the same consonant at the end of two or more words	consonance	40
153326967	figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for another thing closely associated with it	metonomy	41
153327737	Thesis statement	A writer's statement of opinion which is his/her main focus	42
153327738	A type of irony used frequently by writers (and teens!)	sarcasm	43
153327739	Part of a poem in which the poet shifts from the situation to a possible solution or what will be	shift	44
153327740	purifying the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions; an emphatic identification with others	catharsis	45
153327918	the quality in a work that arouses a feeling of pity, tenderness, sorrow	pathos	46
153328594	When a speaker/writer demonstrates a knowledge of the subject. The speaker is, therefore, demonstrating that he is a credible witness	ethos	47
153328595	appeal to logic in writing or speech. The use of facts in writing or speech is an appeal to this.	logos	48
154261595	a writer's characteristic way of writing	style	49
154261596	the feeling created within a reader	mood	50
164343098	TPCASTT	TITLE, PARAPHRASE, CONNOTATION, ATTITUDE (that's another word for tone), SHIFT, TITLE & THEME	51
164353249	unrhymed iambic pentameter	blank verse	52
164353250	free verse	a type of poetry that has no pattern of rhyme or meter	53
164353251	Vantage point from which a story is told	Point of view	54
164353252	Which point of view is used when the narrator tells the story and is part of the action of the story using pronouns such as "I", "we", "she"?	First person	55
164353253	Which point of view is used when the narrator is all knowing and can enter the mind of any character to reveal his/her emotions/thoughts/beliefs	omniscient point of view	56
164353254	3 types of Point of view	First person, 3rd person limited, omniscient	57
164353255	point of view in which a story focuses on one character only revealing that person's thoughts/emotions/beliefs, and the reader sees the action through the eyes of that character.	Third person limited point of view	58
164353256	a long lyric poem in which the speaker addresses the reader, revealing himself in the context of a dramatic situation. Ex: Robert Browning's "Porphryia's Lover"	dramatic monologue	59
164353257	Freytag's pyramid	Created by 19th cent. German writer Gustav Freytag, the pyramid is useful for analyzing 5 Act plays.	60
164358624	A tightly structured French verse consisting of 6 sestets whose end words are repeated in rotation at the end of every line & a 3 line envoy which includes all 6 ending words	sestina	61
164358625	The analysis of the pattern of more or less stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry	scansion	62
164358626	a distinct pause in a line of poetry	caesura	63
164358627	A "dreaded" poetic form of 19 lines, 5 tercets followed by a quatrain & involving only 2 rhymes. Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight" is a famous one.	villanelle	64
164365508	An instantly recognizable character type such as an innocent maiden or an evil villain	A stock character	65
210691874	themes that recur often in literature	convention	66
210693092	a central idea of a work	theme	67
210693093	authoriatative or accepted list of books of timeless value	THE CANON!!!!	68