AP Literature Unit 22 Vocabulary Flashcards

2482904625	pilgrimage	an act of spiritual devotion or penance in which an individual travels without material comforts to a distant holy place (Ex. Pilgrim's Progress or Canterbury Tales)	0
2482969039	agrarian idealism	conviction that farming is an especially virtuous occupation in comparison with trade, craftsmanship, manufacturing, etc.; manifested strong in Romantic writings as one form of the American Dream motif (Ex. Virgil's Eclogues, Jefferson's Queries)	1
2482981664	problem play	any play in which the main character faces a personal, social, political, environmental, or religious problem common to his society (Ex. Death of a Salesman: challenges of false values in a capitalistic society)	2
2483120822	revenge play	Renaissance genre of drama; hero attempts to avenge a previous wrong by killing the perpetrator of the deed, commonly with a great deal of bloodshed and incidental violence (Ex. Hamlet)	3
2483127812	roman à clef	(roman uh clay) narrative that represents actual historical characters and events in the form of fiction; real figures have fictitious names (Ex. Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises)	4
2489063310	identical rhyme	use of the same words as a "rhymed" pair; adds emphasis to a poetic passage (Ex. Keats's Isabella: "All close they met again, before the dusk / Had taken from the stars its pleasant veil, / All close they met, all eyes, before the dusk / Had taken from the stars its pleasant veil, / Close in a bower of hyacinth and musk,/ Unknown of any, free from whispering tale")	5
2489075569	eye rhyme	words that seem to rhyme when written down because their parts are spelled similarly but are pronounced differently in modern English (Ex. Andrew Marvell: "Thy beauty shall no more be found, / Nor in thy marble vault shall sound / My echoing love song. Then worms shall try / That long-preserved virginity")	6
2489109362	internal audience	an imaginary listener or audience to whom a character speaks in a poem or story; might be the reader or another unnamed character (Ex. T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": "Let us go then, you and I...")	7
2489121980	multicultural novel	novel written by a member of or about a cultural minority group, giving insight into non-Western or non-dominant cultural experiences and values, either in the United States or abroad (Ex. Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, etc.)	8
2490176277	mythology	system of stories that help explain how the world works, customs and observances, rituals for sacred ceremonies, and life after death; once believed literally by ancestors but usually not believed by their descendants (Ex. Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid)	9