AP Literature Flashcards

4044102130	aliteration	the repetition of sounds in close succession	0
4044103772	allusion	a reference to a well known work of literature, person, or historical event	1
4044108842	antagonist	the force working against the protagonist in a work of literature	2
4044112105	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something non-human is addressed as if it were present	3
4044116665	archetype	the original pattern or type after which all others are patterned	4
4044121882	aside	in drama, a comment by a character directed to the audience or another character, not heard by others on stage	5
4044126102	assonance	the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds	6
4044128515	blank verse	verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	7
4044132942	climax	the turning point in the plot of a literary work	8
4044134673	colloquial	the characteristic of informal, spoken, language or conversation	9
4044642776	comic relief	a humorous scene that takes place in the course of a tragic literary work	10
4044645494	consonance	the repetition of a consonant sound	11
4044651981	connotation	the feelings or associations a word suggests beyond its literal meaning	12
4044654569	dennotation	the direct, specific meaning of a word	13
4044665262	denouement	action occurring after the climax	14
4044666442	diction	the style of speaking and writing as reflected in the choice and use of words	15
4044669786	drama	literature that is meant to be preformed for an audience	16
4044671811	elegy	a somber poem, often about the loss of a loved one	17
4044674452	enjambent	a technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause	18
4044677961	epiphany	a sudden revelation or insight	19
4044681972	figurative language	language that cannot be taken only literally	20
4044683410	first person	the point of view told from the narrator's perspective	21
4044685035	flashback	an interruption of the chronological order of events in a story in order to present events that took place before the story	22
4044689776	foil	the use of one character to bring out the qualities of another	23
4044692142	foreshadowing	a technique which hints about what will occur later in the story	24
4044694561	free verse	verse that has no set rhyme or meter	25
4044695811	genre	a distinct category into which literature is grouped	26
4044698384	hyperbole	a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in service of the truth	27
4044702240	iambic pentameter	a pattern of 10 unstressed/stressed syllables	28
4044704145	image	written details that appeal to the reader's senses	29
4044706875	irony	the contrast between what is expected and what occurs	30
4044709132	verbal irony	a character says one thing but means another	31
4044713951	situational irony	the reader expects one thing and another happens	32
4044715565	dramatic irony	the audience or reader is aware of something a character is not aware of	33
4044719374	juxtaposition	the arrangement of two or more ideas, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in a similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison or contrast	34
4044724566	metaphor	a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike	35
4044729769	metafiction	a literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to a work's status as an artifact	36
4044733114	mood	the feeling that the writer creates for the reader	37
4044735802	narrator	the teller of the story	38
4044737345	onomatopoeia	the use of words that mimic their actual meaning in their sound	39
4044740016	oxymoron	a compact paradox in which two successive words apparently contradict each other	40
4044743860	paradox	a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incomparable elements which contains the truth	41
4044748029	personification	a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an animal, concept or object	42
4044751466	plot	the sequence of events in a literary work	43
4044752547	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	44
4044754870	protagonist	the main character in a literary work	45
4044755924	repetition	the literary technique which a word or group of words are repeated for emphasis throughout a selection	46
4044759927	sarcasm	bitter or cutting speech that is intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed	47
4044769308	satire	a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform	48
4044772615	setting	the time and place in which the story occurs	49
4044774045	simile	a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things essentially unlike by using like or as	50
4044777713	sonnet	a poem that has 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and a rhyme scheme	51
4044780252	speaker	the narrative voice in a poem	52
4044781467	stanza	a group of lines in a poem separated by a space	53
4044784730	symbol	a figure of speech in which something concrete is used to stand for an abstract idea	54
4044788137	syntax	the rules and principals which govern sentence structure	55
4044790422	theme	a central idea of a literary work, the insight about life or human nature the writer presents to the reader	56
4044794723	third person omniscient	the point of view which is all knowing and considers the perspective of many characters	57
4044799119	third person	the point of view which is not first person but considers the perspective of one character	58
4044803757	tone	the writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the emotional coloring or emotional meaning or a work	59
4044806712	tragedy	a drama which begins peacefully and ends violently, often with the death or destruction of the protagonist	60