AP Literature 1st terms Flashcards

3225184194	allusion	Unacknowledged references and quotations which authors make while assuming that readers will recognize the original sources and relate their meanings to the new context.	0
3225184196	devices of sound	the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia)	1
3225184714	diction	word choice, types of words, and level of language	2
3225185090	figurative language	Organized patterns of comparison that deepen, broaden, extend, illuminate, and emphasize meaning, and also that conform to particular patterns or forms such as metaphor simile and parallelism	3
3225185091	details	smaller items or parts making up a larger picture or story; as when describing a character or scene	4
3225185092	theme	major or central idea of a work	5
3225185555	attitude	a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject or writing	6
3225185556	imagery	images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and sensations of touch.	7
3225186210	irony	Broadly, a means of indirection. Language that states the opposite of what is intended is verbal. The placement of characters in a state of ignorance is dramatic, while an emphasis on powerlessness is situational	8
3225186214	narrative techniques	the methods that writers use to give certain artistic and emotional effects to a story. the methods involved in telling a story; asks you to discuss procedures used to tell a story; (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, or interior monologue)	9
3225186601	symbol	A specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life.	10
3225186602	point of view	The speaker, voice, narrator, or persona of a work; the position from which details are perceived and related; a centralizing mind or intelligence.	11
3225186942	metaphor	a figure of speech that describes something as though it actually were something else, thereby enhancing understanding and insight	12
3225186943	tone	The techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes. n attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience	13
3225187207	structure	The arrangement and placement of materials in a work	14
3225187885	rhetorical techniques	the devices used in effective or persuasive language, such as apostrophe, contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, satire, and rhetorical	15
3225187886	syntax	word order and sentence structure. a mark of style is a writer's syntactical patterning (regular patterns and variations), depending on the rhetorical needs of the literary work	16
3225188336	style	the manipulation of language; the placement of words in the service of content	17
3225188337	setting	The natural, manufactured, and cultural environment in which characters live and move, including all the artifacts they use in their lives.	18
3225189012	simile	a figure of comparison, using like with nouns and as with clauses.	19