Ap Literature Flashcards

7193691244	Narrative nonfiction	Genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives	0
7193694002	Narrative point of View	A narrator tells the story without describing any characters thoughts, opinions, or feelings instead it gives an unbiased point of view	1
7193697946	First person point of view	Someone telling you his or her story	2
7193698824	Third person omniscient point of view	The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story	3
7193700907	Third person limited point of view	Method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character while the other characters are presented on the externally	4
7193702532	Diction	A style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by the speaker or writer	5
7193703331	Foreshadowing	Literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story	6
7193705808	Hyperbole	An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis	7
7193706635	Imagery	Using figurative language to represent objects actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses	8
7193707185	Juxtaposition	Literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side-by-side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons	9
7193709169	Mood	Element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in the readers through the words and descriptions	10
7193710667	Litote	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	11
7193713631	Metaphor	makes an implicit implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated share some common characteristics	12
7193717832	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	13
7193718363	Denotation	Generally defined as literal or dictionary meanings of the word in contrast to his container or associated meanings	14
7193719917	Synecdoche	A part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent apart	15
7193720582	Parallelism	The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter	16
7193721633	Narrative	A report of related events presented to the listeners or readers and words arranged in a logical sequence	17
7193722972	Assonance	When two or more words close to another repeat the same vowel but start with different consonant words	18
7193723334	Motif	An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work	19
7193724008	Personification	I think an idea or an animal is given human attributes	20
7193724674	simile	Figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things	21
7193725013	Theme	Main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly	22
7193726507	Tone	And attitude of a writer towards the subject or an audience	23
7193726816	Alliteration	A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series	24
7193728735	Allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	25
7193729883	Apostrophe	A figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation	26
7193731119	Conceit	To vastly different objects are like in together with the help of similes or metaphors	27
7193731583	Connotation	A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly	28
7193733739	Consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	29
7193737582	Dialect	Language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people	30
7193738995	dialogue	A literary technique in which writers employe two or more characters to be engaged in conversation within each other	31
7193740465	Symbol	Using an object or action that mean something more than its literal meaning	32