AP Literature Flashcards

5898805780	juxtaposition	act/instance of placing 2+ items side-by-side to showcase similarities/differences	0
5898813929	metafiction	storytelling about storytelling	1
5898816146	verisimilitude	quality of appearing to be true or real	2
5898818271	polysyndeton	repetition of connectives/conjunctions in close succession for effect	3
5898819874	paradox	statement/situation that seems impossible/oxymoronic but solves itself and reveals meaning	4
5898843416	diction	word choice	5
5898843417	syntax	ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns	6
5898845870	theme	central meaning/dominant idea in a literary work	7
5898847555	thesis	sentence/group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion/purpose/meaning/position	8
5898857848	tone	author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people/places/events in a work	9
5898862940	characterization	process by which a writer makes the character seem real	10
5898867480	figurative language	purposefully departing from the literal meanings of words	11
5898869471	imagery	word/phrase/figure of speech that addresses the senses	12
5898872722	foil	character who serves to contrast with another (usually highlighting the protagonist)	13
5898876532	first person narrator	"I" POV	14
5898880629	third person omniscient	presents thoughts/actions of any/all characters	15
5898884749	third person limited omniscient	presents thoughts of one character, actions of all others	16
5898890001	mood	prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work	17
5898893107	verbal irony	words literally state the opposite of the speaker's meaning	18
5898910440	situational irony	events turn out the opposite of what was expected	19
5898912947	dramatic irony	facts/events are unknown to a character but are known to the reader/other characters	20
5898919636	irony	contrast between the explicitly stated and what is meant	21
5898924772	protagonist	main character	22
5898924773	style/voice	evaluation of the sum of the author's diction, syntax, and other lit. devices	23
5898930773	rhetoric	effective speaking or writing	24
5898933705	ethos	appeals to trustworthiness/credibility of writer/speaker	25
5898950135	logos	persuades through logic	26
5898952827	pathos	emotional appeal	27
5898955710	allegory	narration/description restricted to a single meaning	28
5898957516	alliteration	repetition of same consonant sounds	29
5898959445	allusion	brief reference to a person/place/thing/event/idea	30
5898966718	ambiguity	allowing for 2+ simultaneous interpretations of a word/phrase/action/situation	31
5898971447	analogy	similarity/comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	32
5898977214	anaphora	repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive lines/sentences	33
5898984910	antagonist	character/force that works against the protagonist	34
5901291646	antecedent	word/phrase/clause referred to by a pronoun	35
5901343546	apostrophe	address to someone absent or something nonhuman that cannot comprehend	36
5901348832	archetype	universal symbols that evoke deep/unconscious responses in a reader	37
5901354165	cacophony	language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce	38
5901357830	caricature	description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others	39
5901360277	colloquial/colloquialism	slang or informal diction	40
5901362205	connotation	associations and implications that go beyond the definition of a word	41
5901364309	conceit	two vastly different objects are likened together using similes or metaphors	42
5901366209	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	43
5901367719	denotation	dictionary definition of a word	44
5901369713	euphemism	substitution of a less offensive expression in place of another	45
5901373965	euphony	soothing, pleasant sounds	46
5901373966	exposition	initial part of the story in which the stage is set for the main action	47
5901377474	extended metaphor	a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in/throughout a work	48
5901381449	genre	major category into which a literary work fits	49
5901383911	homily	sermon or any serious talk/speech/lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	50
5901409841	hyperbole	boldly exaggerated statement	51
5901411929	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	52
5901413756	metaphor	a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as	53
5901417883	metonymy	the name of one object is substituted for that of another that is closely associated with it	54
5901422681	motif	a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work	55
5901424390	onomatopoeia	natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words	56
5901432804	oxymoron	two contradictory words are used together	57
5901438122	parallelism	structural organization of words/phrases/sentences/paragraphs to have similarity	58
5901446739	parody	humorous imitation of a more serious work	59
5901448631	pedantic	overly scholarly/academic, condescending	60
5901451175	persona	a speaker created by the writer to tell a story	61
5901453874	aside	a speech directed to the audience only	62
5901456441	personification	human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things	63
5901458582	prose	not poetry	64
5901460291	pun	a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meeting/sounding like another word	65
5901463460	satire	ridiculing a folly/vice in order to expose/correct it	66
5901466933	semantics	branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, etc.	67
5901470149	simile	explicit comparison between two things using like/as/than/appears/seems	68
5901475122	soliloquy	a speech made by a character expressing their feelings	69
5901591195	sonnet	fixed form of poetry (14 lines, iambic pentameter)	70
5901617716	stanza	grouping of lines in poetry	71
5901638602	tragic hero	the main bitch boy who always blows things out of proportions and then complains how he had nothing to do with his problems and loses all their friends	72
5901658691	didactic literature	literary work designed to instruct/moralize	73
5901669847	symbolism	d	74
5901694315	synecdoche	d	75
5901694316	understatement	d	76