AP Literature Flashcards

2779101738	Metonymy	The substitution of an attribute or adjunct to replace the name of the whole. Ex. "Uniforms showed up at the crime scene" where 'uniforms' represents police officers.	0
2779104165	Synecdoche	A figure of speech wherein a part is meant to represent a whole or vice versa. Ex. "Dallas took home the Super Bowl" where Dallas as a whole is represented by its football team.	1
2779107953	Motif	An image, action, or symbol that is repeated throughout a work to enhance meaning.	2
2779108209	Allusion	A reference to an outside work.	3
2779108359	Allegory	A poem, play, or novel that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral lesson.	4
2779110576	Apostrophe	An exclamatory passage addressed to an absent party (either a person who isn't present or an object).	5
2779111796	Paradox	A passage that appears silly or self-contradictory but conceals a truth.	6
2779112240	Archetype	A typical character type, situation, or action that represents a universal pattern in human nature (i.e. a trope).	7
2779115674	Anthropomorphism/Personification	Assigning human traits to something nonhuman.	8
2779116897	Ekphrasis	Writing that comments on another art form.	9
2779117453	Foil	A person or thing that contrasts with and thereby emphasizes the qualities of another.	10
2779119228	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth.	11
2779120767	Malapropism	A misused word or phrase in the place of a similar sounding word or phrase.	12
2779121374	Juxtaposition	Two things being presented alongside one another to provoke comparison and contrast.	13
2779122429	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of two direct opposites to achieve a contrasting effect.	14
2779123197	Meiosis	A witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something/someone, particularly by diminishing importance.	15
2779124936	Parallelism	Repeated, relatively identical sentence structure or story structure.	16
2779124937	Chiasmus	A syntactical or plot structure in which paralleled items are repeated in reverse order. Ex. "The hills sloped up and down, down and up, all across the countryside."	17
2779126494	Anaphora	Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.	18
2779126499	Epistrophe	Repetition of a word/phrase at the end of successive clauses.	19
2779127063	Periphrasis	Use of excessive language/surplus words.	20
2779127064	Assonance	Repetition of vowels (i.e. long song).	21
2779127065	Consonance	Repetition of consonants (i.e. I stuck a streak of bad luck).	22
2779127198	Enjambment	Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line/stanza.	23
2779127199	Caesura	A pause within a phrase.	24
2779127200	Asyndeton	Purposely leaving out conjunctions (i.e. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).	25
2779127529	Polysyndeton	Purposely overusing conjunctions (i.e. here and there and everywhere).	26
2779127530	Syllepsis	A figure of speech in which a word is used in two contexts. Ex. "Caught the train and a bad cold."	27
3470559757	Catharsis	The release of extreme emotions from internal restoration and/or renewal	28
3470567645	Syntactic Permutation	Use of extremely complex sentence structure with multiple clauses (stream of consciousness)	29
3470579188	Litotes	Use of double negatives to create an understatement	30
3470586476	Farce	A genre/type of comedy that creates comedic situation (drunkenness)	31
3470591207	Points of View	All literature is told from 1st, 2nd (narrator telling a story to someone else), 3rd (bystander), or 3rd person omniscient	32
3470598563	Epanalepsis	Repetition of the initial word/phrase of a sentence at the end of that same sentence	33
3470603563	Implied Metaphor	Doesn't explicitly state the comparison (it hints at the comparison)	34
3470607615	Local Color	Cultural mannerisms that define the characteristics of an area through traits (area of mainstream culture)	35
3470617057	Understatement	A form of irony in which something is presented as less important than it actually is	36
3470625194	Fable	Concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end	37
3470634441	Loose Sentence	Begins with a main idea, followed with a phrase that changes the main idea by adding information	38
3470639834	Didactic	Meaning to instruct, in the way of a teacher (being patronizing is a common connotation)	39
3470652358	Extended Metaphor	A comparison between two unrelated objects through multiple sentences	40
3470657189	Hypotactic	Arrangement of phrases/clauses in a dependent/subordinate relationship (effect in literature: sets the scene)	41
3470662515	Conceit	An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a passage	42
3470685926	Inversion	Altering the traditional placement of verbs, subjects, and objects in a sentence in order to lay emphasis	43
3709047154	Ambiguity	A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work	44
3709050946	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word/clause at the beginning of the following clause to gain a specific effect.	45
3709055781	Satire	A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule	46
3709061787	Epigram	As a rule a short, witty statement in verse or prose which may be complimentary, satiric, or aphoristic	47
3709093116	Irony	When expectations of not align with reality	48
3709094378	Situational irony	Incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens instead	49
3709097682	Verbal irony	Saying something but meaning the opposite	50
3709101215	Dramatic irony	When the audience knows something that the characters don't	51