AP Literature Flashcards
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5252473651 | Allegory | Story or poems in which characters, settings, and events stands for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 1 | |
5252473652 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sound in words that are close together | 2 | |
5252473653 | Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known from history | 3 | |
5252473654 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 4 | |
5252473655 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 5 | |
5252473656 | Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrase, to help make writers point more coherent | 6 | |
5252473657 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | 7 | |
5252473658 | Anecdote | A short brief story. | 8 | |
5252473659 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story | 9 | |
5252473660 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 10 | |
5252473661 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 11 | |
5252473662 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all qualities traditionally associated with heroes | 12 | |
5252473663 | Anthropomorphism | Personification | 13 | |
5252473664 | Aphorism | Brief cleverly worded statement that make a wise observation about life | 14 | |
5252473665 | APostrophe | Calling out an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | 15 | |
5252473666 | Apposition | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements | 16 | |
5252473667 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowels sounds followed by different consonant | 17 | |
5252473668 | Characterization | The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 18 | |
5252473669 | Connotation | The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition | 19 | |
5252473670 | Chiasmus | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 20 | |
5252473671 | Cliche | Words or phrase often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. | 21 | |
5252473672 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations | 22 | |
5252473673 | Comedy | Funny | 23 | |
5252473674 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor | 24 | |
5252473675 | Confessional poetry | Describes a poetry that uses intimate material from the poets life | 25 | |
5252473676 | Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story | 26 | |
5252473677 | Couplet | Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry | 27 | |
5252473678 | Dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of certain geographical area. | 28 | |
5252473679 | Diction | A speaker or writers choice of words | 29 | |
5252473680 | Didactic | Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 30 |