AP literature Flashcards

4943630892	Allegory	Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.	0
4943630893	Alliteration	Repititiom of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together	1
4943630894	Allusion	Refence to domeone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, and other branches of sport.	2
4943630895	Ambiguity	Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work	3
4943630896	Analogy	Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	4
4943630897	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentence in a row.	5
4943630898	Anastrophe	Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence	6
4943630899	Anecdote	Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual	7
4943630900	Antagonist	Opponent who stuggles against or blocks the hero/protagonist	8
4943630901	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order	9
4943630902	Antithesis	Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	10
5064251186	Antithero	Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes	11
5064251187	Anthropomorphism	Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object	12
5064251188	Aphorism	Brief cleverly worded statement that makes abwise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth	13
5064251189	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea	14
5064251190	Apposition	Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more cooordinate elements, latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon).	15
5064251191	Assonance	The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together	16
5064251192	Asyndenton	Commas used without conjunction to seperate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of x, y, AND z.... it is x, y, z	17
5064251193	Balance	Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance	18
5064251194	Indirect characterization	The author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the charcter says, his/her thoughts, behavior and actions	19
5064251195	Direct characterization	The author tells us directly what the character is like : sneaky generous, mean.	20
5064251196	Static	One who does not change much in the course of the story	21
5064251197	Flat	Has only one or two personality traits (summed up in one phrase).	22
5064251198	Round	Has more dimensions more complex	23
5064251199	Dynamic	Changes in some important way as a result of the story's action	24
5064251200	Characterization	The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	25