AP Literature Flashcards

4795081762	kenning	picturesque metaphorical compound	0
4795081763	caesura	a pause in the middle of a line of poetry	1
4795081764	aphorism	a principal expressed tersely in a few telling words	2
4795081765	irony	appearance differs from reality	3
4795081766	understatement	the magnitude of what is stated falls detectably short of reality	4
4795081767	meter	rhythmic pattern of poetry by reoccurring units of sound	5
4795081768	foot	unit of sounds that consists of a combination of stressed/unstressed syllables	6
4795081769	(anti)strophe	2 of the 3 stanzaic forms of the Greek choral ode	7
4795081770	in media res	in the midst of things	8
4795081771	characterization	how the author shapes/reveals a character to the reader	9
4795081772	satire	blending censure with humor to improve humanity	10
4795081773	sarcasm	caustic, bitter expression of disapproval	11
4795081774	enjambment	poetry that has one line flowing to the next without punctuation	12
4795081775	catharsis	purging of guilt as a result of going through tragic drama	13
4795081776	hubris	arrogant pride of the protagonist	14
4795081777	hamartia	fatal misstep that leads to the downfall of a character in a tragedy	15
4795081778	foil	a character who's qualities emphasize the protagonist	16
4795081779	monologue	extended speech uttered to one speaker, to others as if alone	17
4795081780	soliloquy	speech utter by one person, to others as if alone	18
4795081781	apostrophe	figure of speech in which someone, some abstract figure, or nonexistent person is directly expressed as if present	19
4795081782	ambiguity	the state of having more than one meaning of interpretation	20
4795081783	synecdoche	the part represents the whole	21
4888096378	imagery	when the author makes pictures through the senses	22
4888113557	point of view	vantage from which the story is told	23
4888113558	dystopia	undesirable image of society	24
4888113559	utopia	desirable image of society	25
4888113560	theme	the message an author wants to express to the reader	26
4888113561	novella	short story around 100 pages	27
4888113562	plot	series of related events that create a story	28
4888205496	feud ex machina	the plot is resolved by the use of a highly improbable chance that solves a difficult problem	29
4888205497	synaethesia	description of one sense impression using words that normally describe another	30
4888205498	style	writers way of stating things	31
4888205499	tone	authors attitude towards the subject	32
4888205500	mood	the feeling the audience gets from a piece	33
4888205501	connotation	range of further associations in addition to the dictionary meaninh	34
4888205502	juxtaposition	placing words/things side by side intentionally for effect	35
4888205503	malapropism	the comic substitution of one word for another that's similar in sound, but has another meaning, making them look ignorant	36
4888205504	voice	the sense a writers work conveys about the author	37
4888205505	motif	reoccurring image, word, or phrase that appears throughout the work	38
4888476450	anachronism	an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time	39
4888476451	metonymy	figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea	40
4888476452	narrator	the teller of the story	41
4888476453	dissonance	harshness of sound and/or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate	42
4888476454	euphory	a pleasing soothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination	43
4888476455	litotes	figure of speech where an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement	44
4888476456	euphemism	substituting a mild term in place of an offensive or hurtful term for effect	45