AP Literature Flashcards

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3745501337	Diction	Authors word choice	1
3745501338	Bombast	Overdone to the point of being arrogant	2
3745501339	Colloquial	Conversational language specific to a time and place	3
3745501340	Cliché	Overused and tired expression	4
3745501341	Formal	Proper, impersonal, dignified language	5
3745501342	Slang	Informal, improper language	6
3745501343	Didactic	Overly instructive, preachy, sermonising	7
3760469018	Syntax	Sentence structure author uses	8
3760469019	Parallel Structure	Use same pattern to show concept has equal importance	9
3760469020	Rhetorical Question	Question asked for effect that doesn't need answer	10
3760469021	Juxtaposition	Two things are placed side by side to make interesting contrast	11
3760469022	Inverted	Object appears before verb	12
3760469023	Declarative	Expresses a fact or wish	13
3760469024	Interrogative	Asks a question	14
3760469025	Imperative	Expresses a demand	15
3760469026	Exclamatory	Expresses strong feelings	16
3760469027	Repetition	Words or ideas used more than once for effect	17
3787318288	trope	artful variation from the typical way an idea is expressed	18
3787318289	metaphor	comparison of two unlike things	19
3787318290	similie	comparison of two unlike things using like or as	20
3787318291	synecdoche	part of something represents the whole	21
3787318292	metonymy	person/place/thing is referred to by something closely associated with it	22
3787318293	personification	giving inanimate objects human qualities	23
3787318294	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration for effect	24
3790658128	scheme	artful variation from ordinary patten of words in a sentence	25
3790658129	alliteration	repetition of the beginning consanant sounds	26
3790658130	ellipsis	deliberate omission of words in a sentence	27
3790658131	parenthesis	insertion of words that intercepts the normal flow	28
3799782059	litotes	use of understatement for effect	29
3799782060	irony	contrast of what you thought was gonna happen to what actually happens	30
3799782061	verbal irony	saying one thing and meaning another	31
3799782062	situational irony	when a situation turns out unexpectedly	32
3799782063	dramatic irony	when audience knows more than the character	33
3799782064	onomatopoeia	word whose sound imitates that which it names	34
3799782065	oxymoron	paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	35
3799782066	paradox	contradictory statement that proves to be true	36
3799782067	pun	play on words	37
3799782068	allusion	reference to another famous work	38
3799782069	apostrophe	someone or something is absent or not living but addressed as if it were alive and present	39
3822514506	direct characterization	author directly reveals characters personality	40
3822514507	indirect characterization	author forces reader to make judgment about a character based on clues	41
3822514508	flat character	character with limited development	42
3822514509	round character	fully developed character	43
3822514510	dynamic character	character changes in some way	44
3822514511	static character	character who remains same	45
3822514512	protagonist	main character of work	46
3822514513	antagonist	conflicts with protagonist	47
3822514514	internal conflict	opposing forces within a characters mind	48
3822514515	external conflict	struggles with outside forces	49
3822514516	foil	a character who acts in contrast to another to highlight certain qualities	50
3880428893	flashback	scene that interrupts normal chronological flow to show the past	51
3880428894	foreshadowing	gives clues to what is going to happen later in the plot	52
3880428895	point of view	perspective from which the writer tells the story	53
3880429740	first-person	one character is telling the story	54
3880429741	third-person limited	unknown narrator focuses on thoughts of one character	55
3880429742	omniscient	all-knowing in regards to every character	56
3880433043	objective	unbiased, impersonal	57
3880433044	soliloquy	speech made by a character when they are alone on stage	58
3880433045	suspense	the feeling of uncertainty in the reader	59
3880433046	theme	purpose of the work, provides some sort of insight	60
3880434231	tone	attitude of the writer	61
3880434232	mood	how reader feels in response to the authors tone	62
3962291249	enjambent	running on of one line of poetry to another	63
3962291250	blank verse	unrhymed poetry of a specific meter	64
3962291251	caesura	pause or break within line of poetry	65
3962292683	couplet	two consecutive lines that rhyme	66
3962292684	ballad	poem that tells a story	67
3962292685	elegy	poem of mourning	68
3962292686	lyric	poem that expresses personal feelings and strong emotion	69
3962292687	ode	lyrical poem about a serious subject	70
3962293628	sonnet	14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	71
3962293629	meter	pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates rhythm	72
3962293630	internal rhyme	words rhyme inside the line	73
3962294732	end rhyme	words rhyme at end of line	74
3962294733	slant rhyme	not exact rhyme but have a corresponding sound	75