AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION TERMS Flashcards

4332759779	SYNTAX	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.	0
4332762662	SONNET	14 lined iambic pentameter poem	1
4332764116	ATECEDENT	Word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers to	2
4332766416	SATIRE	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and convention for reform or ridicule	3
4332768079	SYMBOL	Generally, anything that represents or stands for something else	4
4332769560	PATHOS	The quality in literature of appealing to the emotions	5
4332771859	METAPHOR	Comparison without the use of comparative terms	6
4332772647	RHETORIC	A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form	7
4332774035	TONE	Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both	8
4332775773	STANZA	Repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	9
4332779125	PARALLELISM	Similarities in situations or structure; things that mirror each other or are moving in the same direction	10
4332782310	OXYMORON	Combination of opposites	11
4332777262	FOIL	Characters that are similar but still have major differences	12
4332786752	ANALOGY	Drawing a comparison to another situation that applies to the original circumstance in order to show a similarity	13
4332783126	PARADOX	Statement that seems to be self contradictory, but is actually true.	14
4332787989	SOLIOQUY	Characters talking directly to the audience or themselves while alone	15
4332789332	STEROTYPE	Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea	16
4332790685	LYRICAL	A type of poem which expresses love, inner emotions etc.; tends to be personal	17
4332792542	FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE	Asing figures of speech; language that does not mean what is stated literally	18
4332795848	ALLUSION	A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumable commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art	19
4332798755	IRONY	Words or situation mean/turn out the opposite of what is planned	20
4332798765	NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE	he style of telling that "story," even if the passage is nonfiction	21
4332802198	GOTHIC	Characterized by a dark, mysterious setting; has supernatural elements	22
4332804659	DICTION	Choice of words	23
4332806024	STYLE	The author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.	24
4332807139	NARRARTOR	A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a narrative	25
4332810880	STRUCTURE	The way a work is built or composed	26
4332814039	GUSTATORY IMAGERY	Imagery that pertains to the sense of taste	27
4332815986	RESOURCES OF LANGUAGE	This phrase refers to all the devices of composition available to a writer	28
4332817792	THEME	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life.	29
4332819193	AMBIGUITY	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	30
4332820332	ALLEGORY	A work with a secondary or symbolic meaning underlying the literal meaning	31
4332821269	APOSTROPHE	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	32
4332822711	DYSTOPIA	Imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad	33
4332824098	Bildungsroman (coming of age novel)	The protagonist is a child whose experiences over the course of the work teach him about the realities of the adult world	34
4332826293	ELIPSIS	The omission of a word or several words	35
4332827449	MENTONYMY	A type of metaphor in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	36
4332829255	PACE	Determines how quickly or how slowly the writer takes a reader through a story	37
4332830914	END	Stopped A line with a pause at the end	38
4332832816	SYLLOGISM	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them	39
4332833929	ASSONANCE	Repetition of vowel sounds	40
4332834720	DIGRESSION	Use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	41
4332836769	VERNACULAR	Ordinary, everyday speech of a region	42
4332867787	CONNOTATION	The various positive or negative implications of a word	43
4332869526	EUPHEISM	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts.	44
4332870589	LITERAL	Not figurative, accurate to the letter	45
4332871738	HYPERBOLE	Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	46
4332876270	RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES	Uses words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade. It can also be a technique to evoke an emotion on the part of the reader or audience	47
4332877781	VERISIMILITUDE	The quality in literature of being true to life, details seem realistic and believable	48
4332880167	OXYMORON	Combination of opposites	49