AP Literature Terms To Know Flashcards

6559406782	allegory	hidden meaning typically moral or political	0
6559406783	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words	1
6559406784	allusion	reference to an outside work (biblical, historical, mythological)	2
6559406785	analogy	comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure for explanation/clarification	3
6559406786	antagonist/protagonist	antagonist=adversary protagonist=leading character in literary work	4
6559406787	bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	5
6559406788	catharsis	the purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy	6
6559406789	connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word in addition to its primary meaning	7
6559406790	denotation	literal meaning of the word "dictionary definition"	8
6559406791	diction	word choice	9
6559406792	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	10
6559406793	double-entendre	a phrase that could have two meanings or that could be understood in two different ways	11
6559406794	figurative language	uses words or expressions wth a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	12
6559406795	foil	character serves to bring out attributes of another character	13
6559406796	genre	category of literary composition	14
6559406797	historical narrative	takes place in the past, but is a made up story (based on real aspects of the past)	15
6559406798	hyperbole	exaggeration-rhetorical device	16
6559406799	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
6559406800	imagery	description that appeals to our five senses	18
6559406801	inference	a conclusion arrived at through logical processes	19
6559406802	irony	conveys a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning	20
6559406803	metaphor	comparison using is	21
6559406804	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
6559406805	mood	overall atmosphere created by the tone	23
6559406806	motif	a recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story	24
6559406807	novel	a long narrative (prose) which describes fictional characters and events	25
6559406808	novella	shorter than a novel	26
6559406809	nuance	a subtle degree of difference in meaning/feeling/tone	27
6559406810	onomatopoeia	mimics sound of the action it refers to	28
6559406811	oxymoron	two contradictory words put together in one phrase	29
6559406812	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself but can still be true	30
6559406813	parody	work that closely imitates for comic effect or ridicule	31
6559406814	pedantic	overly concerned with details/overly scholarly (word, phrase, or general tone)	32
6559406815	personification	giving human actions to non-living things	33
6559406816	point of view	perspective the story is told from	34
6559406817	prose	"ordinary writing"/paragraph form	35
6559406818	pun	play on words	36
6559406819	realism	portrays life in a faithful, accurate manner unclouded by false ideals	37
6559406820	repetition	repeating a word	38
6559406821	rhetorical devices	technique an author uses to convey a meaning with the goal of persuading them	39
6559406822	satire	vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule ideally with the intent of shaming	40
6559406823	simile	comparison using like or as	41
6559406824	style	the way an author writes (diction, syntax, figurative language)	42
6559406825	symbol	an object (or word) to represent an abstract idea	43
6559406826	syntax	sentence structure; how words and phrases are arranged	44
6559406827	tone	author's attitude toward the subject	45
6559406828	tragedy	main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow due to their tragic flaw	46
6559406829	Romanticism	emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of the individual	47
6559406830	Victorianism	novels were much more popular as literacy rates rose (a focus on the highly moralistic, straitlaced language and behavior of Victorian morality)	48
6559406831	Modernism	broke with classical and traditional forms of literature	49