AP Literature Flashcards

3912126996	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	0
3912205933	Ambiguity	A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning	1
3912205934	Analogy	Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	2
3912008101	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite	3
3912036031	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth	4
3912213319	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea	5
3912227891	Didactic	Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking	6
3912233568	Epithet	An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned	7
3912200410	Litotes	Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	8
3912208808	Motif	A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work	9
3912235367	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole	10
3945358614	Archetype	A typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature	11
3945399961	Hubris	The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death	12
3945419732	Anachromism	An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting	13
3945449927	Caricature	A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect	14
3945461191	Euphemism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	15
3947313276	Catharsis	The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions	16
3947313277	Colloquialism		17