AP Literature Terms To Know Flashcards

5547881860	allegory	hidden meaning typically moral or political	0
5547881861	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words	1
5547881862	allusion	reference to an outside work (biblical, historical, mythological)	2
5547881864	analogy	comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure for explanation/clarification	3
5547881866	antagonist/protagonist	antagonist=adversary protagonist=leading character in literary work	4
5547881870	bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	5
5547881874	catharsis	the purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy	6
5547881880	connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word in addition to its primary meaning	7
5547881882	denotation	literal meaning of the word "dictionary definition"	8
5547881884	diction	word choice	9
5547881885	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	10
5547881887	double-entendre	a phrase that could have two meanings or that could be understood in two different ways	11
5547881897	figurative language	uses words or expressions wth a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	12
5547881900	foil	character serves to bring out attributes of another character	13
5547881902	genre	category of literary composition	14
5547881905	historical narrative	takes place in the past, but is a made up story (based on real aspects of the past)	15
5547881910	hyperbole	exaggeration-rhetorical device	16
5547881911	idiom	phrase not taken literally...a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light )	17
5547881912	imagery	description that appeals to our five senses	18
5547881916	inference	a conclusion arrived at through logical processes	19
5547881917	irony	conveys a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning	20
5547881921	metaphor	comparison using is	21
5547881922	metonymy	word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word (ex: suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing)	22
5547881923	mood	overall atmosphere created by the tone	23
5547881925	motif	a recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story	24
5547881928	novel	a long narrative (prose) which describes fictional characters and events	25
5547881929	novella	shorter than a novel	26
5547881930	nuance	a subtle degree of difference in meaning/feeling/tone	27
5547881931	onomatopoeia	mimics sound of the action it refers to	28
5547881932	oxymoron	two contradictory words put together in one phrase	29
5547881933	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself but can still be true	30
5547881936	parody	work that closely imitates for comic effect or ridicule	31
5547881937	pedantic	overly concerned with details/overly scholarly (word, phrase, or general tone)	32
5547881939	personification	giving human actions to non-living things	33
5547881943	point of view	perspective the story is told from	34
5547881944	prose	"ordinary writing"/paragraph form	35
5547881947	pun	play on words	36
5547881948	realism	portrays life in a faithful, accurate manner unclouded by false ideals	37
5547881949	repetition	repeating a word	38
5547881951	rhetorical devices	technique an author uses to convey a meaning with the goal of persuading them	39
5547881955	satire	vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule ideally with the intent of shaming	40
5547881957	simile	comparison using like or as	41
5547881959	style	the way an author writes (diction, syntax, figurative language)	42
5547881961	symbol	an object (or word) to represent an abstract idea	43
5547881962	syntax	sentence structure; how words and phrases are arranged	44
5547881967	tone	author's attitude toward the subject	45
5547881968	tragedy	main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow due to their tragic flaw	46
5547881975	Romanticism	emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of the individual	47
5547881976	Victorianism	novels were much more popular as literacy rates rose (a focus on the highly moralistic, straitlaced language and behavior of Victorian morality)	48