AP Literature Terms Flashcards

2743724587	homily	a sermon on a moral or religious topic	0
2743724588	hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	1
2743724589	imagery	use of words to create images	2
2743724590	inference	a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning	3
2743724591	invective	venomous language use to express blame	4
2743724592	irony	using a word or situation opposite of its literal meaning	5
2743724593	euphemism	a mild term substituting for a harsher term	6
2743724594	extended metaphor	a metaphor used throughout a long passage or poem	7
2743724595	figurative language	language that contains or uses figure of speech	8
2743724596	figures of speech	expressions with imaginative comparisons	9
2743724597	genre	a class or category	10
2743724598	characterization	description	11
2743724599	connotation	implied or associative meaning of a word	12
2743724600	denotation	most direct or specific meaning if a word or expression	13
2743724601	conflict	to come into disagreement or collision	14
2743724602	diction	word choice	15
2743724603	didactic	instructive	16
2743724604	caricature	exaggerated representation of a person	17
2743724605	clause	a group of words with both a subject and a verb	18
2743724606	cliché	a trite plot etc.	19
2743724607	colloquial	informal language	20
2743724608	conceit	an elaborate metaphor	21
2743724609	atmosphere	the medium at a given place	22
2743724610	antagonist	character who opposes the protagonist	23
2743724611	archetype	prototype	24
2743724612	ballad	a type of poem that is meant to be song and us both lyric and narrative in nature	25
2743724613	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	26
2743724614	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers	27
2743724615	antithesis	balancing 2 opposing ideas	28
2743724616	aphorism	expressing a general truth or idea using a rhyme or balance	29
2743724617	apostrophe	a figure of speech that addresses absence	30
2743724618	alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words	31
2743724619	allusion	a recognizable reference	32
2743724620	ambiguity	multiple meanings	33
2743724621	analogy	a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	34
2745490793	asydenton	commas used to seperate a series of words	35
2745490794	chiasmus	a statement in which the second part is structurally reversed	36
2745490795	foil	a character opposite of the main character or same as the protagonist	37
2745490796	allegory	story in which characters are used as symbols	38
2745490797	cacophony	loud and unpleasant	39
2745490798	euphony	pleasing sound	40
2745490799	voice	an author's general attitude toward the world	41
2745490800	absolutes	a word free from limitations or qualifications	42
2745490801	denouement	final scene or chapter where clarifications are made	43
2745490802	deux ex machina	plot device where conflict is solved through a mean unrelated to the story	44
2745490803	refrain	a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song	45
2745490804	hubris	refers to excessive pride that leads to a hero's downfall	46
2745490805	elegy	a mournful poem	47
2745490806	epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	48
2745490807	lyric poem	a short poem of songlike quality	49
2745490808	epistolary	novels written in letters between characters	50
2745490809	free verse	poetry that avoids regular rhyme or meter patterns	51
2745490810	Caesura	pauses or breaks in poetry	52
2745490811	end stopped	Having a pause at the end of each line	53
2745490812	enjambled	the continuation of meeting, without pause throughout poem	54
2745490813	litotes	understatement	55
2745490814	juxtaposition	act of two things being put together with contrasting effect	56
2745490815	loose/non-periodic sentence	a sentence that continues with one or more subordinate clauses or modifiers after its main clause	57
2745490816	metaphor	figure of speech in which one thing is equated with another	58
2745490817	meter	rhythmic pattern in a poem	59
2745490818	metonymy	substituting the name of one objects for another object closely associated	60
2745490819	mood	the emotional atmosphere at work	61
2745490820	motif	Standard theme, element, or dramatic work that recurs in various works	62
2745490821	narrative	a story or narrated account	63
2745490822	onomatopoeia	use of word that imitates sounds	64
2745490823	oxymoron	an expression in which two words contradict each other are joined	65
2745490824	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that contains truth	66
2745490825	parallelism	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	67
2745490826	paratactic sentence	a literary technique that favors short simple sentence with coordinating conjunctions	68
2745490827	parody	humorous imitation of serious work	69
2745490828	pedantic	excessive display of learning or scholarships	70
2745490829	periodic sentence	a complex sentence in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	71
2745490830	periphrasis	The use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing	72
2745490831	polysyndeton	the use of several conjuctions in close succession	73
2745490832	personification	giving human characteristics to animals or nonhuman objects	74
2745490833	point of view	the vantage point from which a story it told	75
2745490834	quatrain	a stanza having four lines especially one having alternate rhymes	76
2745490835	prose	ordinary writing as distinguished from verse	77
2745490836	rhetoric	art of presenting ideas in a clear and persuasive manner	78
2745490837	sarcasm	use of irony to mock	79
2745490838	satire	use of humor to emphasize human weakness or imperfections	80
2745490839	soliloquy	an extended speech where a character expresses his thoughts	81
2745490840	semantics	the study of meaning	82
2745490841	style	combination of distinctive features of a literary work	83
2745490842	subject complement	the adjective noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb	84
2745490866	subordinate clause	a clause dependent on a main clause	85
2745490867	syllogism	a three part argument in which a conclusion is based on a major and minor premise	86
2745490868	symbol	an object that is used to represent something else	87
2745490869	synecdoche	using one part of an object to represent the entire object	88
2745490870	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another	89
2745490871	syntax	manner in which words are arranged into sentences	90
2745490872	theme	universal meaning of work	91
2745490873	thesis	a central idea of work	92
2745490874	tone	attitude of a writer	93
2745490875	transition	a passage that connects a topic to another	94
2745490876	understatement	ironic minimalizing of a flat	95
2745490877	wit	mental sharpness	96
2745490878	tricolon	a series of three parallel words phrases or clauses	97
2745490879	vernacular	language or dialect spoken by the ordinary person in a particular country or region	98
2745490880	anaphora	repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	99