AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5736931965	Kenning	A picturesque metaphorical compound	0
5736931966	Caesura	A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry	1
5736931967	Aphorism	A principal expressed tersely in a few telling words	2
5736931968	Dramatic irony	Reader knows something characters do not	3
5736931969	Situational irony	Something happens you would not expect	4
5736931970	Verbal irony	Character says something unexpected (appearance differs from reality)	5
5736931971	Understatement	The magnitude of what is stated falls detectably sort of the reality	6
5736931972	Meter	Rhythmic pattern in poetry established by recurring units of sound	7
5736931973	Foot	A unit of sound that consist of a combination of stressed or unstressed syllables	8
5736931974	(Anti)strophe	2 of the 3 Stanzaic forms of the Greek chorale ode	9
5736931975	In medias res	Greek term that literally means "in the midst of things "the story begins in the middle of the action	10
5736931976	Direct characterization	Explicitly telling the reader what a character is like	11
5736931977	Indirect characterization	Revealing of a character through things they do or say	12
5736931978	Satire	Blending censure with humor to improve humanity	13
5736931979	Enjambment	One line flows to the next (poetry) no punctuation	14
5736931980	Sonnet	Shakespearean/Petrarchan	15
5736931981	Catharsis	The purging of guilt as a result of going through a tragic drama	16
5736931982	Hubris	Arrogant pride of protagonist	17
5736931983	Hamartia	Fatal misstep that leads to the downfall of a character in a tragedy	18
5736931984	Foil	A character who is qualities emphasize those of the protagonists by providing a strong contrast with them	19
5736931985	Monologue	An extended speech uttered by one speaker to others where as if alone	20
5736931986	Soliloquy	Same as monologue just not extended	21
5736931987	Apostrophe	Figure of speech in which someone, some extract quality, or nonexistent person is directly addressed as if present	22
5736931988	Ambiguity	State of having more than one meaning or interpretation	23
5736931989	Synecdoche	Figure speech: the part represents the whole Example) 50 head of cattle	24
5736931990	Point of view	Vantage point from which story is told	25
5736931991	Dystopia	Undesirable imaginary society	26
5736931992	Theme	The message an author wants to express to the reader	27
5736931993	Novella	Short novel approximately 100 pages	28
5736931994	Plot	Series of related events to create a story	29
5736931995	Utopia	Perfect society	30
5736931996	Dues ex machina	The plot is resolved by the use of a highly improbable chance that solves a difficult problem	31
5736931997	Synesthesia	Description of one since impressions using words that normally describe another example) a loud shirt	32
5736931998	Style	Writer's way of stating things	33
5736931999	Tone	Authors attitude toward the subject they are writing about	34
5736932000	Mood	The feeling or attitude the audience gets from reading a piece	35
5736932001	Connotation	Range of further associations in addition to the dictionary meaning	36
5736932002	Juxtaposition	Placing things side-by-side intentionally for effect	37
5736932003	Malapropism	The comic substitution of one word for another that is similar in sound, but different in meaning. it functions to make characters look ignorant or amusingly uneducated	38
5736932004	Voice	The sense a written work conveys to a reader of the writers attitude, personality, and character	39
5736932005	Motif	Recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in various words or throughout the same work	40
5736932006	Anachronism	And event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time	41
5736932007	Metonymy	Figure of speech in which representative term is used for larger idea	42
5736932008	Narrator	Teller of the story	43
5736932009	Dissonance	Harshness of sound and or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate	44
5736932010	Euphony	A pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination	45
5736932011	Litotes	Figure of speech were an affirmation is made indirectly by saying it's opposite, usually with effect of understatement	46
5736932012	Euphenism	Substituting a mild term in place of an offensive or more hurtful term for effect	47