AP Literature Terms Flashcards

4850944189	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite	0
4850944190	Allegory	Using Character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstract in addition to the literal meaning	1
4850944191	Apostrophe	Directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction	2
4850944192	Colloquial/ Colloquialism	Use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	3
4850944193	Homily	"Sermon" but can include serious talk speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	4
4850944194	Metonymy	The name of one object is substituted for that of one closely associated with it	5
4850944195	Parallelism	Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words or phrases sentences or paragraphs to give structuralism	6
4850944196	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but on closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	7
4913706842	Pedantic	An adjective that describes words phrases or general tone that is scholarly	8
4913706843	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. This independent clause is preceded by a phrase and cannot stand alone	9
4913706844	Prose	One of the major divisions of genre refers to fiction and nonfiction	10
4913706845	Rhetoric	Principles governing the art of writing effectively eloquently and persuasively	11
4913706846	Rhetorical Modes	This flexible term discerned the variety the conventions and the major kinds of writing	12
4913706847	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	13
4913706848	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words their historical and psychological development their connotations as their relation to one another	14
4913706849	Subject Completement	The word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describe it	15
4913706850	Subordinate Clause	A clause that cannot stand alone	16
4913706851	Syllogism	Deductive system of formal logic that presents 2 premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	17
4913706852	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or occasionally the whole is used to represent the part	18
4913706853	Synesthesia	When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	19
4913706854	Syntax	The way the author chooses to join words into phrases sentences and clauses	20
4913706855	Tone	Describes the author's attitude toward his material audience or both	21
4913706856	Transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas	22
4913706857	Understatement	Ironic minimizing of fact presents something less significant than it is	23