AP Literature Terms Flashcards

3182855448	Allegory	multiple symbols interact to create a meaning	0
3182855449	Allusion	reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature	1
3182855450	Apostrophe	addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing	2
3182855451	Epithet	characteristic of a person or a thing	3
3182855452	Euphemism	polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant	4
3182855453	Figurative Language	language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive and impactful	5
3182855454	Hyperbole	an exaggeration	6
3182855455	Dramatic Irony	audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before leading characters or actors	7
3182855456	Verbal Irony	when the speaker says something contradictory to his/her emotions and actions	8
3182855457	Situational Irony	something entirely different happens from what audience may be expecting or the final outcome is opposite to what the audience is expecting	9
3182855458	Romantic Irony	The procedure by which apparently significant gestures or assertions or decisions are made only to immediately collapse	10
3182855459	Litotes	a double negative statement that confirms a positive idea by negating the opposite.	11
3182855460	Direct Metaphor	clearly states that one thing is another	12
3182855461	Indirect Metaphor	the comparison is not plainly expressed	13
3182855462	Conceit Metaphor	connection between two ideas that seem unrelateable	14
3182855463	Metonymy	replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated	15
3182855464	Oxymoron	two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	16
3182855465	Paradox	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth (ex: The enemy of my enemy is my friend)	17
3182855466	Personification	a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes	18
3182855467	Pun	a play on words	19
3182855468	Simile	a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison, showing similarities between two different things with the help of "like" or "as"	20
3182855469	Symbol	signifies ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense	21
3182855470	Synaesthesia	one sense is described using terms from another (ex: I smell trouble)	22
3182855471	Synechdoche	a figure of speech where part of something is used to represent the whole thing	23
3182855472	Understatement	a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is	24
3182855473	Ambiguity	a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning	25
3182855474	Anachronism	an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece	26
3182855475	Archetype	a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature	27
3182855476	Concrete Language	identifies things perceived through the senses	28
3182855477	Connotation	implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly	29
3182855478	Deconnotation	literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings	30
3182855479	Details	carefully chosen and well organized can help make a piece of writing or an oral report more precise, vivid, convincing, and interesting	31
3182855480	Didactic	Stories intended to instruct, inform, or teach a moral lesson.	32
3182855481	Epigraph	a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece having a few sentences but which belongs to another writer	33
3182855482	Explication	a commentary revealing the meaning of the work	34
3182855483	Foreshadowing	hints a future event	35
3182855484	Image	vivid or picturesque phrase that evokes a particular sensation in the reader's mind	36
3182855485	Imagery	appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work	37
3182855486	Mood	the overall feeling of the work	38
3182855487	Moral	principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong	39
3182855488	Motif	a dominant idea or central theme	40
3182855489	Parable	A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question	41
3182855490	Syntax	The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence	42
3182855491	Theme	The main thought expressed by a work	43
3182855492	Tone	The manner in which an author expresses his of her attitude	44
3182855493	Climax	occurs when there is a turning point from which there is no going back	45
3182855494	Internal Conflict	psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character	46
3182855495	External Conflict	struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character	47
3182855496	Denouement	All the loose ends of the plot are tied up in this last scene	48
3182855497	Exposition	a form of writing that explains what's happening or has happened in the story in a very matter-of-fact way	49
3182855498	Falling Action	occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved	50
3182855499	Fiction	something invented by the imagination or feigned	51
3182855500	Epiphany	where a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding	52
3182855501	Inciting Incidents	event that set the central conflict into motion	53
3182855502	Motivation	The mixture of situation and personality that impels a character to behave the way he or she does	54
3182855503	Narrative Pace	how quickly or how slowly the writer takes a reader through a story	55
3182855504	Plot	events that occur during the course of that story and the way in which they are presented to the reader; storyline	56
3182855505	Rising Action	a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest	57
3182855506	Setting	includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story	58
3182855507	Style	the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words	59
3182855508	Metafiction	is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality	60
3182855509	Antagonist	the enemy or opposing force of the hero	61
3182855510	Catharsis	the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions	62
3182855511	Direct Characterization	tells the audience what the personality of the character is	63
3182855512	Indirect Characterization	shows things that reveal the personality of a character	64
3182855513	Dynamic Character	a character who undergoes dramatic changes	65
3182855514	Flat Character	a character who undergoes no change	66
3182855515	Foil	a character that serves to highlight one or more attributes of another character	67
3182855516	Hamartia	commonly understood to refer to the protagonist's error or flaw that leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from their good fortune to bad	68
3182855517	Hubris	an extreme expression of pride or self-confidence in a character	69
3182855518	Peripety	a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances	70
3182855519	Protagonist	the hero	71
3182855520	Round Character	a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated	72
3182855521	Static Character	an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author	73
3182855522	Stock Character	a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition	74
3182855523	First Person Primary	narrator is usually the protagonist of the story, and this point of view allows the reader access to the character's inner thoughts and reactions to the events occurring	75
3182855524	First Second Person Primary	implies a group of people narrating the story at once	76
3182855525	Persona	is a character or figurative mask that an actor, writer, or singer takes on in order to perform	77
3182855526	Second Person Point of View	using the "you" pronoun to narrate the story	78
3182855527	Third Person Limited	the reader is privy only to one main character's thoughts	79
3182855528	Third Person Omniscent	allows the author to delve into the thoughts of any character, making the narrator seem godlike	80
3182855529	Third Person Objective	a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings	81
3182855530	Freytag's Pyramid	the structure of a dramatic work	82
3182855531	Quixotic	having foolish and impractical ideas of honor, or schemes for the general good	83