AP Literature Flashcards

5666166776	anadiplosis	the last words or word of a line, phrase or clause are repeated as the first word or words in an immediately successive line, phrase or clause	0
5667138091	anaphora	the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences	1
5667145442	apostrophe	the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept	2
5667151832	chiasmus	certain words are reversed or repeated in reverse order	3
5667170911	epistrophe	the exact repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive lines or sentences	4
5667266941	ethos	appeals to character	5
5667281955	logos	appeals to logic	6
5667282566	pathos	appeals to emotion	7
5667283314	rhetoric	the art of persuasion through speaking and writing	8
5667284817	rhetorical question	a questions to provoke thought but not intended to be answered	9
5667288098	conceit	an elaborate comparison between two apparently dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor	10
5667295641	double entendre	a figure of speech that has multiple interpretations or two different meanings or that could be understood in two different ways. the first meaning in a double entendre is usually straightforward while the second meaning is usually ironic, risque or inappropriate	11
5667302790	euphemism	inoffensive expression in place of a blunt one that is felt to be disagreeable or embarrassing	12
5667308133	hyperbole	employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration	13
5667312623	metaphor	associates two distinct things without using like or as	14
5667315539	metonymy	one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it	15
5669241118	personification	human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman	16
5669245420	simile	associates two distinct things using the connective words like or as	17
5669256105	synechdoche	something is used to represent the whole	18
5669267033	synesthesia	one kind of sensory stimulus is used to describe the experience of another	19
5669277045	understatement	representing something less in magnitude that it really is	20
5669283580	antagonist	a character pitted against the protagonist	21
5669294949	characterization	the various means by which an author describes and develops the characters in a literary work	22
5669302536	dialect	a way of speaking using a language that is particular to a geographic region or social group	23
5669308857	dialogue	conversation between two people	24
5669313024	flat character	a character that does not undergo any significant emotional, ideological, or spiritual transformation	25
5669318530	foil	a character whose contrast with the protagonist serves to accentuate the protagonist's qualities	26
5669327827	monologue	an extended narrative delivered uninterrupted and exclusively by one person	27
5669332712	protagonist	the main character in a work, often a hero	28
5669335638	round character	a character who undergoes significant emotional, ideological, or spiritual change	29
5669341129	soliloquy	a monologue delivered by a character while alone that reveals inner thoughts, emotions or other information	30
5669348113	antonym	words opposite in meaning	31
5669351032	colloquialism	a word or phrase that is not formal in nature, typically used in normal conversation	32
5669358541	connotation	implied meaning of a word or words	33
5669360796	denotation	literal meaning of a word or words	34
5669363833	diction	word choice	35
5669365592	homonym	words that sound or are spelled the same but have different meanings	36
5669466224	oxymoron	juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox	37
5669528181	pun	a play on words that capitalizes on a similarity in spelling and or pronunciation between words that have different meanings	38
5669539685	synonym	words similar meaning	39
5669544456	alliteration	the repetition of sounds in a sequence of words	40
5669547327	assonance	alliteration with vowel sounds	41
5669550038	cacophony	harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds	42
5669558311	consonance	alliteration with consonant sounds	43
5669560414	euphony	pleasing, harmonious sounds	44
5669562357	iambic pentameter	a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllables per line	45
5669575603	meter	the regular rhythmic pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in verse	46
5669580610	onomatopoeia	wording that seems to signify meaning through sound effects	47
5669587967	asyndeton	the omission of conjunctions in syntactic structure, often a stylistic	48
5669595784	parallelism	sentences, clauses, or phrases with repetitive syntactic or grammatical structure	49
5669608279	polysyndeton	the repetition of conjunctions in syntactic structure, often a stylistic choice	50
5669614162	syntax	sentence structure	51
5669616721	ballad	a poem that recounts a story in the form of a song	52
5669620657	blank verse	any unrhymed verse, but usually referring to unrhymed iambic pentameter	53
5669630497	confessional poem	a contemporary poetic mode in which poets discuss matters relating to their private lives	54
5669636821	couplet	two successive lines of rhyming verse	55
5669640143	end rhyme	rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of verse	56
5669646438	enjambment	a line in a poem that does not end with grammatical breaks and their sense is not complete without the following line	57
5669652416	free verse	poetry that lacks a regular meter, does not rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths	58
5669668029	heroic couplet	a pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter	59
5669672677	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line of verse	60
5669677993	ode	a relatively long, serious, and usually meditative poem that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified and calm manner	61
5669696597	Petrarchan/Italian sonnet	a poem consisting of fourteen lines with two segments: one eight line with abbabba rhyme and the following six in cdecde rhyme pattern	62
5669712181	prose poem	a brief, rhythmic composition blending prose and verse: these poems are written in sentences, without the line breaks characteristic of poetry, but are heavily marked by the use of poetic devices	63
5669727605	quatrain	a stanza containing four lines	64
5669734859	refrain	a phrase, line, or lines that recur throughout a poem or song	65
5669743696	Shakespearean/English sonnet	a poem consisting of fourteen lines: three quatrains and a couplet, usually in iambic pentameter	66
5669763222	slant rhyme	refers to words that almost rhyme or visually appear to rhyme	67
5669767341	speaker	the person narrating a poem	68
5669770561	stanza	a grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically separated from others such as clusters by a blank verse	69
5669780482	tercet	a group of three lines of verse	70
5669783647	expostition	the weaving into the plot of essential prior matters, such as past events. Helps to develop context	71
5669791187	foreshadowing	the technique of introducing material that prepares the reader for future events, actions, or revelations	72
5670126458	motif	a recurrent, unifying element in a work, such as an image, symbol, character type, action, idea, object, or phrase	73
5670136585	point of view	the vantage point from which a narrative is told	74
5670141966	first person	refers to him/herself as "I"	75
5670147687	second person	perspective or "you"	76
5670154690	third person objective	"he, she, it" with no character thoughts expressed	77
5670167066	third person limited	"he, she, it" with knowledge of a single characters thoughts	78
5670175039	third person omniscient	"he, she, it" with many or all characters thoughts expressed	79
5670181447	setting	the combination of place, historical time, and social milieu that provides the general background for a plot of work	80
5670192863	theme	the statements, expressed or implied, that a work seems to be making about its subject	81
5670200310	allusion	an indirect reference, often to a person, event, statement, theme, or work	82
5670209163	ambiguity	lack of clarity or uncertainty in meaning. A word, phrase, statement, or passage is ambiguous when it can be understood or interpreted in more than one way	83
5670224771	anachronism	something outside of its proper historical time period	84
5670230247	analogy	essentially, when a comparison is being made to clarify understanding	85
5670238067	anthropomorphism	when nonhuman living organisms, inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given literal human traits	86
5670252160	archetype	images, figures, character types, settings and story patterns that are universally shared by people across cultures and time	87
5670266550	imagery	refers to the corpus of images used in text and the language used to convey a visual picture	88
5670272984	irony	a contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality: verbal or structural	89
5670281936	juxtaposition	two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect which often reveals an existing dichotomy	90
5670291339	microcosm	when something large is represented by something smaller, a kind of symbol	91
5670297520	mood	the prevailing emotions of a work	92
5670299786	objectivity	associated with external reality, and thus with empirical fact and absolute truth	93
5670312465	paradox	a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth	94
5670324838	style	the way in which a literary work is written	95
5670329572	subjectivity	associated with the internal mind, and thus with bias and relative truth	96
5670335046	symbolism	when something stands for or suggests something larger and more complex: often an idea or range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices	97
5670346557	tone	the attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter	98
5670371287	portmanteau	a word coined by combining two other words, encompassing the original meanings of both component parts	99