AP Literature Terms I Flashcards

7219665929	alliteration	repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or line of poetry or prose	0
7219669823	allusion	a reference to a person, place, event, or work	1
7219671466	ambiguity	vagueness	2
7219672171	annotation	a brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work	3
7219676548	antagonist	a character or force working against the main character	4
7219681936	"Bildungsroman"	a coming of age story	5
7219683360	canon	the works considered most important in a national literature or period	6
7219684823	connotation	suggested or implied meaning of a word	7
7219685813	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	8
7219686450	diction	choice of words	9
7219687860	first-person narrative	narrative told with pronouns such as "I" and "we"	10
7219689149	foreshadowing	providing hints of things to come in a story	11
7219690153	metaphor	a figure of speech that compares unlike objects	12
7219693797	point of view	the relation in which a narrator stands to the story	13
7219695781	protagonist	the main character	14
7219696355	setting	the total environment of the action of a work	15
7219698892	style	the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, structures sentences, etc.	16
7219701101	symbolism	the use of an object to evoke ideas or associations beyond the actual, physical thing	17
7219702965	syntax	sentence structure	18
7219704005	tone	the author's attitude	19