AP Literature Vocab 3 Flashcards

4758293568	Asyndeton	the omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases. Example: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."	0
4758293569	Aubade	a poem about morning	1
4758293570	Allegory	story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. EXAMPLE: Animal Farm; Dante's Inferno; Lord of the Flies	2
4758293571	Autobiography	author's own life story; first- person account	3
4758293572	Ballad	a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic or exciting episode in fairly short narrative; poem written in a song-like stanza form.	4
4758293573	Carpe Diem	Latin for "Seize the Day." A theme, especially common in lyric poetry, that emphasize that life is short, time is fleeting, and that one should make the most of present pleasures.	5
4758293574	Bathos	an anticlimax which is unintentional; an unintentional shift from the sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of overly elevated language to describe trivial subject matter, or from an exaggerated attempt at pathos which misfires to the point of being ludicrous.	6
4758293575	Bildungsroman	a novel showing the development of its central character from childhood to maturity. . . psychological approach and movement toward a goal. Example: The Catcher in the Rye	7
4758293576	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme (Shakespeare)	8
4758293577	Bombast	Elevated language, often pompous and overdone.	9