AP Literature terms Flashcards

4965685467	Allusion	A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work	0
4965685468	Attitude	a speaker's opinion on a subject	1
4965685469	Details	terms or parts that make up a larger picture or story	2
4965685470	Devices of sound	The technique of deploying the sound of words Ex: Rhyming, alliterations	3
4965685471	Diction	Word choice	4
4965685472	Figurative Language	Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning ex: Metaphor, simile, irony	5
4965685473	Imagery	the images, sensory details, and figurative language of a work. ex: Sensory details, metaphors, simile	6
4965685474	Irony	a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ	7
4965685475	Metaphor	A figurative use of language that uses a comparison without the use of like and as	8
4965685476	Narrative techniques	the methods involved in telling a story Ex: Point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue	9
4965685477	Omniscient point of view	The point of a story where the narrator can know, see, and report whatever they want ex: Skipping about in time, speak directly to the reader	10
4965685478	Point of view	The vantage points from which a story is told Ex: First person, third person	11
4965685479	Resources of Language	The linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use ex: Diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery	12
4965685480	Rhetorical technique	The devices used in effective of persuasive language ex: Contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement	13
4965685481	Satire	Writing that seeks to arouse a readers disapproval of an object by ridicule. Usually comedic	14
4965685482	Setting	The physical location of a play, story, or novel	15
4965685483	simile	The comparison of two objects using "like" or "as"	16
4965685484	strategy (rhetorical strategy)	The management of language for a specific effect	17
4965685485	Structure	The arrangement of materials within a work ex: Play:Scene Novel:Chapter Poem:Line	18
4965685486	Style	The characteristic manner of expression of an author ex: syntax, figurative language, satire, tone	19
4965685487	Symbol	Something hat is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else ex: Cold and dark are real, but in literature they are meant as death	20
4965685488	Syntax	The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence	21
4965685489	theme	the main thought expressed by a work. The "meaning"	22
4965685490	Tone	The manner in which an author expressed his or her attitude ex: Quiet, apprehensive, confident, terrified	23
4965685491	allegory	A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning	24
4965685492	Ambiguity	Multiple meaning a literary work may communicate This strategy commonly confuses the reader by sending multiple different messages	25
4965685493	Apostrophe	Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present	26
4965685494	Connotation	The implications of a word or phrase, opposed to its exact meaning	27
4965685495	convention	A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of exprression	28
4965685496	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation	29
4965685497	Didactic	Explicitly instructive	30
4965685498	Digression	The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	31
4965685499	Eigram	A pithy saying, often using contrast. usually Ina n verse form, brief, and pointed	32
4965685500	Euphemism	A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness ex: deceased for dead, remains for corpse	33
4965685501	grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities	34
4965685502	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration, over statement	35
4965685503	Jargon	The special language of a profession or group	36
4965685504	Literal	Accurate	37
4965685505	Lyrical	Song like; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination	38
4965685506	Oxymoron	A combination of opposites	39
4965685507	Parable	A story designed to suggest a principle	40
4965685508	Paradox	A statement that seems to be contradicting, but is true	41
4965685509	Parody	Something that imitates the style of another composition	42
4965685510	Personification	Comparing non human things wit human characteristic	43
4965685511	Reliability	A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust	44
4965685512	Rhetorical question	A question asked with no intention of a reply	45
4965685513	Soliloquy	A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud	46
4965685514	Stereotype	A conventional pattern	47
4965685515	Syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them	48
4965685516	thesis	The theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support	49
4965685517	Alliteration	The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds ex: no new news now	50
4965685518	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds ex: as the girl crawls, she falls	51
4965685519	Ballad meter	A four-line stanza rhymed back	52
4965685520	Blank verse	Not ryhmed	53
4965685521	dactyl	metrical foot of three syllables	54
4965685522	end-stopped	A line with a pause at the end.	55
4965685523	Free verse	Poetry the rhymes but is not written in a traditional meter	56
4965685524	Heroic couplet	two end-stopped lines rhymed aa,bb,cc ex: And they must be laid in dust Consecrate to fame Inscribe her name	57
4965685525	Hexameter	a line containing six feet	58
4965685526	iamb	short/long, only two in a foot	59
4965685527	Internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end ex: Why look at them SO with my crossBOW	60
4965685528	onomatopoeria	Words that explain sounds ex: Buzz, hiss, honk	61
4965685529	Pentameter	A line containing 5 feet	62
4965685530	Rhyme royal	A seven line stanza	63
4965685531	Sonnet	14 line poem	64
4965685532	Stanza	repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	65
4965685533	terms rima	A three line stanza	66
4965685534	tetrameter	A line of four feet	67
4965685535	Antecedent	that which goes before a clause that a pronoun referes	68
4965685536	clause	a group of words containing a subject ad its verb that may or may or be a complete sentence	69
4965685537	Ellipsis	The omission of a words for a compete construction that is still understandable ex: If rainy, bring an umbrella	70
4965685538	Imperative	The mood of a verb that gives an order	71
4965685539	MOdify	To restrict or limit in meaning	72
4965685540	Parallel structure	A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or paragraph	73
4965685541	Periodic sentence	A sentence grammatically complete only at the end	74
4965685542	Syntax	the structure of a sentence	75