Literary Terms AP Literature Flashcards

6708464019	Motif	A repeated idea in a work of literature	0
6708466452	Metaphysical poems	Poems full of surprising conceits, strange paradoxes, and far-fetched imagery (ex. "The Flea")	1
6708514173	Ode	A poem in celebration of something (ex. "Ode to a Grecian Urn")	2
6708519381	Juxtaposition	The placing of ideas side by side for empasis or contrast, sometimes creating humor	3
6708523603	Enjambment	When a line of poetry does not end in an end mark - either a period, semicolon, or colon	4
6708563570	Satirize / Satire	The use of humor to criticize	5
6708565598	Irony	When there is a secondary meaning that the reader reads between the lines, often times creating humor	6
6708568547	Tone	The author's attitude about the subject - always an adjective	7
6708571684	Bildungsroman	A coming-of-age novel (ex. Jane Eyre, The Member of the Wedding)	8
6708580152	Allusion	A reference to something outside the work itself - commonly referring to either the Bible or to mythology	9
6708624111	Allegory	A story that is, as a whole, a metaphor for another story (ex. The Wild Duck and the christian story; The Crucible and McCarthyism; Animal Farm and the Russian revolution)	10
6708634830	Foil(s)	Two characters that are polar opposites to each other and represent two opposing ideas (ex. Gregers and Relling in The Wild Duck)	11
6708708631	Picaresque Novel	Depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society (ex. Aladdin)	12
6708713724	Reverse satire	When the character who exposes the outrages of society is deeply flawed themselves	13
6708716635	Paradox	A seemingly impossible statement that is somehow true (ex. "his wealth was want, whose plenty made him poor" - Faerie Queene by Spenser)	14
6708722268	Conceits	A metaphor that controls the entire poem	15
6708724420	Blank verse	Unrhymed, 10 syllable lines (ex. Milton)	16
6708774563	Free verse	No rules or patterns for rhyming, poetry that follows no rules regarding line length or patterns of rhyme	17
6708778963	Iambic pentameter	Uses a cominated of stressed and not stressed "iambs", one of the most common meters in English poetry	18
6708785338	Mock epic	Uses the lofty language and conventions of an epic to deal with trivial subjefts in a humerous way	19
6708789318	Bathos	The placing side by side somehting lofty with something trivial, with humerous effect	20
6708812849	Direct characterization	The author tells us what we need to know about a a character	21
6708812850	Indirect characterization	When a character's actions and words reveal what's important about the character	22
6708823012	Gothicism	A subject of Romanticism that focused on the supernatural and the peculiar	23
6708829369	1st person narratior / POV	When a character is the narrator	24
6708999589	3rd person narratior / POV	When there is a disembodied voice that is not a character as a narrator	25
6709008886	Omnicient 3rd person narrator	A narrator that knows all, sees all, and can read minds	26
6709023375	Limited 3rd person narrator	A narrator that "perches" on the shoulder and knows only one character's thoughts, or cannot read anyone's mind (ex. a roving camera)	27
6709037880	Bourgeois(ie)	The middle class with a negative connotation as it extended to the class's materialism, lack of culture, narrow-mindedness, and striving concern for respectability	28
6709085269	Prosody	The use of sound in poetry	29
6709088065	Alliteration	The repetition of intitial constonant sounds in a line of poetry (ex. "tried and true" and "safe and sound")	30
6709093777	Assonance	The repeptition of vowel sounds (ex. "mad as a hatter")	31
6709147867	Consonance	The repetition of internal and final constonant sounds in a line of poetry (ex. "broken clock"; "short and sweet")	32
6709166044	Rhyme	The repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sound	33
6709169558	Masculine rhyme	One syllable rhyme (ex. "support and retort")	34
6709181751	Feminine rhyme	When the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables (ex. "spitefully and delighfully")	35
6709189628	Internal rhyme	When the rhyming words are whithin the line	36
6709194018	End rhyme	When the rhyming words are at the end of the line; most frequently used and most consciously sought-out sound repetition	37
6709201272	Slant rhyme	When end rhymes almost rhyme has to share either the vowel or the end but not both (ex. "hat, put")	38
6709210111	Rhythm	The pattern of stressed and unstresed syllables in a line of poetry	39
6709218038	End-stopped line	A line of poetry that ends in an endmark, semicolon, or colon	40
6709222573	Caesuras	When there is an endmark, semicolon or colon in the middle of a line of poetry	41
6709233327	Sonnet	A 14-lined poem with 10 syllables per line and rhymes, most common English/Shakespearean sonnet	42
6709238642	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what they mean (ex. buzz, bang)	43
6709244314	Phonetic intensives	Letters or groups of letters that are associated with particular meaning (ex. fl- idea of moving light "flame, flicker, flash", st- suggests strength "staunch, steady, strong, steel")	44
6709266602	Long vowels	Fuller and more resonant (ex. fate, reed)	45
6709268354	Short vowels	Short and not as fluid (ex. red, rim)	46
6709273582	Liquid consonants	Melliflous (ex. l, m, n, r, v, f)	47
6709281591	Explosive consonants	Harsh and sharp (ex. b, d, g, k, p, and t)	48
6709287958	Euphony (euphonious)	Pleasant sounding language	49
6709291528	Cacophany (cacophonious)	Harsh souding language	50