AP Literature Terms To Know Flashcards

6248355369	allegory	hidden meaning typically moral or political	0
6248355370	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words	1
6248355371	allusion	reference to an outside work (biblical, historical, mythological)	2
6248355372	analogy	comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure for explanation/clarification	3
6248355373	antagonist/protagonist	antagonist=adversary protagonist=leading character in literary work	4
6248355374	bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	5
6248355375	catharsis	the purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy	6
6248355376	connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word in addition to its primary meaning	7
6248355377	denotation	literal meaning of the word "dictionary definition"	8
6248355378	diction	word choice	9
6248355379	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	10
6248355380	double-entendre	a phrase that could have two meanings or that could be understood in two different ways	11
6248355381	figurative language	uses words or expressions wth a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	12
6248355382	foil	character serves to bring out attributes of another character	13
6248355383	genre	category of literary composition	14
6248355384	historical narrative	takes place in the past, but is a made up story (based on real aspects of the past)	15
6248355385	hyperbole	exaggeration-rhetorical device	16
6248355386	idiom	phrase not taken literally...a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light )	17
6248355387	imagery	description that appeals to our five senses	18
6248355388	inference	a conclusion arrived at through logical processes	19
6248355389	irony	conveys a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning	20
6248355390	metaphor	comparison using is	21
6248355391	metonymy	word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word (ex: suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing)	22
6248355392	mood	overall atmosphere created by the tone	23
6248355393	motif	a recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story	24
6248355394	novel	a long narrative (prose) which describes fictional characters and events	25
6248355395	novella	shorter than a novel	26
6248355396	nuance	a subtle degree of difference in meaning/feeling/tone	27
6248355397	onomatopoeia	mimics sound of the action it refers to	28
6248355398	oxymoron	two contradictory words put together in one phrase	29
6248355399	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself but can still be true	30
6248355400	parody	work that closely imitates for comic effect or ridicule	31
6248355401	pedantic	overly concerned with details/overly scholarly (word, phrase, or general tone)	32
6248355402	personification	giving human actions to non-living things	33
6248355403	point of view	perspective the story is told from	34
6248355404	prose	"ordinary writing"/paragraph form	35
6248355405	pun	play on words	36
6248355406	realism	portrays life in a faithful, accurate manner unclouded by false ideals	37
6248355407	repetition	repeating a word	38
6248355408	rhetorical devices	technique an author uses to convey a meaning with the goal of persuading them	39
6248355409	satire	vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule ideally with the intent of shaming	40
6248355410	simile	comparison using like or as	41
6248355411	style	the way an author writes (diction, syntax, figurative language)	42
6248355412	symbol	an object (or word) to represent an abstract idea	43
6248355413	syntax	sentence structure; how words and phrases are arranged	44
6248355414	tone	author's attitude toward the subject	45
6248355415	tragedy	main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow due to their tragic flaw	46
6248355416	Romanticism	emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of the individual	47
6248355417	Victorianism	novels were much more popular as literacy rates rose (a focus on the highly moralistic, straitlaced language and behavior of Victorian morality)	48
6248355418	Modernism	broke with classical and traditional forms of literature	49