Ap Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

2985809513	First Person Narrator	character in a story who relates their actions and thoughts through his or her perspective	0
2985810265	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	1
2985812163	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman	2
2985812621	Syntax	the word choice of diction	3
2985813914	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	4
2985816422	Analogy	a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification	5
2985816904	Lyric	expressing the writer's emotions, usually short and briefly and in stanzas or recognized form	6
2985817299	Rhyme	a similarity of accented sounds between two words	7
2985817842	Tone	the characteristic emotion of attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience	8
2985818317	Cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds; opposite of euphony	9
2985818760	Protagonist	the leading character or one of the major characters in a literary work	10
2985819281	Theme	the central idea or message of a literary work	11
2985820112	Rythm	Four strong beats; "To err is human forgive, divine"	12
2985820939	Consonance	the recurrence of similar sounds, such as consonants, in close proximity	13
2985821893	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	14
2985823873	Assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for an echo effect	15
2985824478	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named; cuckoo; sizzle	16
2985825312	Paradox	a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory	17
2985825720	Diction	word choice; also called syntax	18
2985826148	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	19
2985826601	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	20
2985827058	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line	21
2985828526	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent both literal and representative ideas or qualities with a more complex significance	22
2985829135	Mood	similar to tone, it is the primary emotional attitude of a work	23
2985829917	Simile	a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	24
2985830340	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	25
2985830829	Apostrophe	an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person or thing	26
2985831564	Point Of View	the perspective from which a story is presented	27
2985832196	Allusion	an expression designed to bring something to mind without mentioning it plainly	28
2985832634	Blank Verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; often found in Shakespeare's works	29
2985833017	Foreshadowing	be a warning or indication of a future event in a story	30
2985833480	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work	31
2985834489	Epigram	a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way; a short poem having a witty or ingenious ending	32
2985834864	Epic	a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation	33
2985835495	Ballad	a long narrative poem or song narrating a single story, which is often tragic or violent, in short stanzas.	34
2985836173	Soliloquy	an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play	35
2985836602	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	36
2985837064	Euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear through a harmonious combination of words	37