AP Literature Unit 11 Vocabulary Flashcards

2107206481	epistolary	a piece of literature narrated through letters (examples: Frankenstein, Dracula)	0
2107206482	romanticism	1800-1840 reaction against Enlightenment rationalism; emphasized emotion, innovation, nature, the individual, and subjective experience (Examples: Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, etc.)	1
2107206483	gothicism	emphasizes the bizarre, darkness, elements of supernatural, psychic connection between the living and dead (the occult),strange and mysterious settings, frightening events, etc. (Example: Poe)	2
2107206484	circumlocution	a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea; used to keep the reader guessing (Examples: euphemism, innuendo, equivocation)	3
2107206485	anaphora	repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses or sentences in order to achieve an artistic effect (Example: "Five years have passed; / Five summers, with the length of / Five long winters! and again I hear these waters" -- Wordsworth)	4
2107206486	epistrophe	repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses or sentences in order to achieve an artistic effect (Example: The big sycamore ... was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood ... across the creek-now that, too, was gone" -- Robert Warren)	5
2107206487	aporia	expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do (Example: "To be, or not to be: that is the question. / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" -- Hamlet)	6
2107693959	anagram	a form of word play in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to form a new word or phrase and provide humor or hide an identity (Examples: Mother-in-law = Hitler woman / Jim Morrison = Mr. Mojo Risin / Hamlet = Amleth, a Danish prince)	7
2107693960	antithesis	a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect (Examples: "To err is human; to forgive divine" -- Pope / "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n." -- Milton)	8
2107693961	colloquialism	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing; gives literature a sense of realism and helps readers relate to or understand background of characters (Example: "I didn't want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections -- Huck Finn)	9