AP Literature Flashcards

5696297552	Academic	dry and theoretical writing	0
5696304730	Accent	accent refers to the stressed portion of the word	1
5696308666	Aesthetic	appealing to the senses/the study of beauty	2
5696314996	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning	3
5696323842	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds	4
5696328191	Allusion	indirect reference to an event...	5
5696332862	Ambiguity	deliberately write unclearly to make a point about the state of confusion that exists in the story	6
5696350154	Anachronism	misplaced in time	7
5696358168	Analogy	Illustrates the ideas by linking the current ideas to a more familiar idea to better communicate the idea at hand; typically involves the use of an extended simile	8
5696374129	Anaphora	Repetition of an exact word or phrase at the beginning of a poetic line	9
5696381893	Anecdote	A short tale told by someone in conversation to make a particular point	10
5696388086	Antagonist	"the bad guy"	11
5696393325	Anthropomorphism	things take human characteristics	12
5696397225	Antihero	a protagonist who is markedly unheroic	13
5696403175	Aphorism	also known as an epigram	14
5696406671	Apostrophe	Talking to someone or something not present, or to a personified object or idea	15
5696417711	Archaism	the use of deliberately old-fashioned language	16
5696424823	Assonance	the repeated use of an interior vowel sounds on the same line	17
5696431794	Axis Mundi	connecting earth to heaven	18
5696436265	Ballad	A song performed poem that dramatically retells the story of a popular figure	19
5696443972	Bathos, Pathos	Pathos is when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy. Bathos is when the author tries to create sympathy and pity when there is no need	20
5696464006	Bildungsroman	coming of age story	21
5696468626	Blank Verse	unrhymed form of poetry	22
5696474617	Cadence	Relates to the rising and falling of speech patterns, stressed and unstressed, the rhythm of speech	23
5696482642	Cacophony	using deliberate harsh, awkward sounds that clash together	24
5696488048	Caesura	a pause in a line of verse	25
5696492796	Catharsis	The "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived through the experiences presented on stage	26
5696534479	Chorus	group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage	27
5696541001	Coinage	a new word, usually made up on the spot	28
5696545610	Colloquialism	"slang"	29
5696545611	Comedy	a light-hearted and humorous drama with a happy ending and an emphasis on people overcoming obstacles to be united in love	30
5696561132	Complex, Dense	there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words	31
5696569141	Conflict	individual vs. themselves, society, nature, fate/gods	32
5696578764	Conceit	a startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines	33
5696592363	Connotation	the range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to the primary dictionary meaning	34