English AP Literature Flashcards

3695848824	Conceit	Figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, forming an ingenious parallel between dissimilar things	0
3695849929	The Petrarchan conceit	hyperbolic comparison made by a suffering lover of his love to an object	1
3695852556	Example of the Petrarchan conceit	my love --> like the ocean	2
3695854188	The metaphysical conceit	sets up an analogy between entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world; sometimes the controlling structure	3
3695856876	Parallelism	Agreement in direction/tendency/character; a list of items	4
3695858667	Analogy	Similarity between two things or situations	5
3695859935	Metonymy	To refer to an object or idea by something intimately associated to it	6
3695872807	Examples of metonymy	-"Kleenex" for tissue -"White House" for presidency -"Benjamin Franklyn's" for money	7
3695876832	Synecdoche	-a specific type of metonymy -to use a part of something to refer to the whole	8
3695879651	Examples of synecdoche	Get your "head" in the game All "hands" on deck	9
3695887604	Synesthesia	To use one sensory experience through another -to "hear" color -	10
3695902132	Invocation of the muse	muses are typically invoked at the beginning of the ancient epic poem, for whom an author is merely a mouthpiece	11
3695928981	archetype	orignal form or pattern that all things derive from; Example: the tragic hero is a character archetype	12
3695935861	Hero quest	A pattern or narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. aka the typical adventure of a hero	13
3695940609	"In medias res"	"In the middle of things." When a scene opens in the middle of action.	14
3695942785	Epic	long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero	15
3695944328	Diction	word choice	16
3695955064	Homeric/epic simile	extended similes that intensifies heroic stature of the subject	17
3695956929	Tenor	subject of the simile (the thing); "James"	18
3695958574	Vehicle	point of comparison; what you're comparing the object to. "Is like a queen."	19
3695960522	Epithet	any word/phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual/attributed quality -nickname	20
3695964702	4 types of epithet	1) physical 2) familial 3) occupational 4) geographical	21
3695967688	stichomythia	dramatic dialogue in a play, characterized by brief exchanges between two people, usually one line of verse per person	22
3695976876	irony	contrast between what what is and what appears to be	23
3695980279	verbal irony	when one character says one thing but means another sarcasm!!!!!	24
3695982068	situational irony	what happens is different than what is expected to happen	25
3695984060	dramatic irony	audience is aware of crucial information that characters are unaware of	26
3695986687	foil	a character that contrasts against another character	27
3695988730	form	the structure, such as in a poem or play	28
3695990111	rhyme scheme	pattern of a poem's rhymes	29
3695990112	meter	rhythm/pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a play	30
3695991602	speaker	voice used by author in a poem	31
3695992934	oedipus complex	a boy's desire for his mother	32
3695994160	electra complex	girl's romantic feelings toward her mother	33
3695996816	orestes complex	son's murderous feelings toward his mother	34
3695998452	madea complex	mother's hatred for her children, driven	35
3696010310	id	the unconscious, pleasure seeking part of the mind	36
3696028514	ego	conscious self, created by tensions between the id and the superego	37
3696029668	superego	the "conscience," socially acquired; imparted usually by parents	38
3696031493	daemon	"demon" full of knowledge, spiritual beings that guide mortals to make choices	39
3696045914	Ars poetica	the art of poetry	40
3696046789	annotate	add explanatory notes or supply with comments	41
3696048754	enjambment	when a sentence in a poem continues from one line to the next "I like to... Play basketball."	42
3696050393	rhythm	audible pattern in verse	43
3696051971	iambic pentameter	a meter in which there are five feet (iambs) or two syllables each that are stressed/unstressed	44
3696090244	Heroic couplet	set of 2 lines in iambic pentameter, sealed by an end rhyme	45
3696091162	stanza	collection of lines of poetry, the paragraph of poetry	46
3696094440	quatrain	4 lines	47
3696094441	couplet	2 lines, frequently rhyming	48
3696097297	Shakespearian/English sonnet	14 lines w/ structure abab cdcd efefgg	49
3696101503	syllogism	logic. If A, then B, then C.	50
3696102815	volta	turn or shift in thought	51
3696102816	refrain	a phrase or verse recurring at intervals; a chorus	52
3696104668	tercet	stanza of 3 lines	53
3696106060	remix (v)	to reassemble or revive a form of art	54
3696107705	tertiary sources	reference works that lead to other sources	55
3696109675	bibliography	list of sources used/consulted in the preparation of a work	56
3696110784	annotated bibliography	list of citation of sources followed by brief, descriptive, evaluative paragraph,	57
3696114173	ekphrasis	a literary description or commentary on a visual work of artq	58
3696122993	freeverse	poem written in form with no rhyme or meter	59
3696128251	white space	the blank area of a paper around the words of a poem	60
3696131521	enumeration	a catalogue or list	61
3696131522	the prose poem	technically not a real poem, but writing that uses the devices of a poem	62
3696133297	internal rhyme	rhyming words within the same line	63
3696134695	the outside-in rhyme	rhyming the end of a line with the start of the next line	64
3696138860	compound rhyme	rhyming both parts of a compound word with another word, "wildwood" and "childhood."	65
3696148016	apostrophe	an address to an absent or imaginary person ex: "you" in fall song	66