AP Literature Flashcards Flashcards

5765972219	Colonialism	One country has control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically	0
5765981914	Post-colonialism	Studying the legacy of colonialism	1
5765988417	Orientalism	Way of seeing people that exaggerates the differences	2
5765991060	Alterity	Lack of identification with one's community	3
5765994506	Subaltern	Being of lower status	4
5765998170	Dependency Theory	Dominant culture creates dependency on its existence	5
5766000731	Mimicry	One culture mimics the behavior of the other	6
5766005808	Ecological Imperialism	Dominant culture takes over environment	7
5766009252	Nihilism	Disbelief in any purpose, nothing means anything	8
5766017522	Atheism	Lack of belief in God/higher power	9
5766019330	Humanism	Prime importance to humans rather than the supernatural	10
5766024606	Transcendentalist	Divinity pervades all nature and humanity	11
5766030200	4 Principles of Nietzsche	Philosophy of History Will to Power God is Dead Uber-mensch	12
5766036685	3 Stages of Philosophy of History	Premoral God Extra-moral	13
5766042800	Premoral	Master morality, good is what is powerful	14
5766044788	God	Slave morality, what is good is what god says	15
5766050686	Extra-moral	Individual "master", no right and wrong, each person finds it for themself	16
5766056302	Will to Power	Great man accepts truths, wills to live delibrately	17
5766061862	Tragic Pessimism	Life is terrible and tragic	18
5766064390	God is Dead	God didn't create man, man created god, act instead of follow	19
5766068326	Uber-mensch	"superman", bends world to fit what he/she wants	20
5766074725	Puritanism	organized religion, blind faith	21
5766080724	Deism	religious system, questioning faith	22
5766083712	Marxism	poor will overpower the wealthy and redistribute the power	23
5766089161	Environmentalism	humans take advantage of environment until too late	24
5766092632	Archetype	central idea in society and stories	25
5766095649	Feminism	women expected to give until they have nothing left	26
5766097151	Language	controls all aspects of a text	27
5766100117	Signifiers	word's letters or sounds	28
5766102950	Freudian	Id Ego Superego	29
5766104911	Id	pleasure principle, unconscious urges and desires	30
5766112434	Ego	self, reality principle	31
5766114247	Superego	ego ideal, moral guardian	32
5766117945	New Criticism/formalism	look at work without other influences	33
5766121829	Philosophical criticism	look at moral values in the work, look at work through view of philosophy	34
5766126098	Biographical	Look at work by understanding the author better	35
5766132169	5 Branches of Philosophy	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Esthetics	36
5766136334	Metaphysics	study of existence	37
5766138123	Epistemology	study of knowledge	38
5766141565	ethics	study of action	39
5766143502	politics	study of force	40
5766144864	esthetics	study of art	41
5766149627	3 Parts of Hegelian Tragedy	Thesis, antithesis, synthesis	42
5766151308	thesis	intellectual proposition	43
5766154526	antithesis	negates the thesis	44
5766156278	synthesis	resolves the conflict by reconciling common truths and starting the process over again	45
5766160597	Teleological argument	history and humanity is heading a direction	46
5766162408	Zeitgeist	spirit of the times; general cultural, artistic, and philosophical climate of the times	47
5766174050	4 Themes of Existentialism	Moral Individualism, Subjectivity, Choice and Commitment, and Dread and Anxiety	48
5766178969	Moral Individualism	highest good for the individual is to find his or her own unique vocation	49
5766184438	subjectivity	personal experience and acting on one's own convictions are essential in arriving at the truth	50
5766190175	Choice and commitment	human beings do not have a fixed nature or essence	51
5766195113	dread and anxiety	one experiences not only a fear of specific objects but also a feeling of general apprehension	52
5766205940	Metaphor	comparison without using like or as	53
5766207009	simile	comparison using like or as	54
5766209168	metonym	when one item stands in for another through association	55
5766214906	synecdoche	a part is used to reference the whole	56
5766222340	hyperbole	exaggeration	57
5766224365	personification	giving human qualities to non-human	58
5766225626	Metaphysical conceit	sets up an analogy between spiritual quality and physical object	59
5766244204	synesthesia	confusion of the senses	60
5766247635	situational irony	what happens is not what is expected	61
5766253102	verbal irony	what is said is not what is meant	62
5766255487	dramatic irony	audience knows something the character doesn't	63
5766258310	romantic irony	audience is deceived by author	64
5766260406	cosmic irony	character falsely believes they have free will	65
5766263851	structural irony	form doesn't match function	66