AP Literature Flashcards

4706237259	Personification	The metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes	0
4706238412	Allegory	A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself	1
4706257195	Anaphora	The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences	2
4706262662	Stanza	A group of lines within a poem demarcated by a blank line	3
4706264667	Novella	A prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel	4
4706267760	Conceit	An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image	5
4706272823	Understatement	Expressing an idea with less emphasis or in a lesser degree than is the actual case	6
4706288184	Assonance	The use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words	7
4706291684	Frame	A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel	8
4706315503	Metaphor	A comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing	9
4706335813	Lampoon	A crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person	10
4706336690	Rhyme	The similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines	11
4706339695	Tone	The writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject	12
4706347103	Ambiguity	The quality of having more than one meaning	13
4706374316	Onomatopoeia	The use of words which, in their pronunciation, suggests their meanings.	14
4706459905	Simile	A direct, expressed comparison between two things essentially unlike each other, but resembling each other in at least one way	15
4706462247	Imagery	The name given to the elements in a poem that spark odd the senses	16
4706464209	Invective	Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against	17
4706483102	Verisimilitude	The resemblance to truth or actuality in characters or events that a novel or other fictional work possesses	18
4706483765	Diction	The author's choice of words	19
4707861909	Canon	In relation to literature, this term is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones	20
4707863115	Oxymoron	A paradox reduced to two words	21
4707863869	Hyperbole	Exaggeration used for emphasis	22
4707867902	Flashback	A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction	23
4707872616	Antithesis	Establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure.	24
4707875870	Setting	The environment in which the action of a fictional work takes place	25
4707876305	Persona	The person created by the author to tell a story	26
4707877238	Metonymy	A closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind	27
4707878005	Apostrophe	The direct address of a person or personified thing, usually absent	28
4707878511	Synecdoche	A form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole	29
4707880389	Rhetoric	The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	30
4707880662	Parody	A satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work	31
4707881635	Enjambment	The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break	32
4707882134	Symbol	Something that is itself and yet also represents something else, like an idea	33
4707883367	Irony	Conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation	34
4707883954	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one	35
4707886112	Thesis	The main idea or statement that a writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend	36
4707886825	Satire	A manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions	37
4707887291	Syntax	The organization of words in a sentence	38
4767096622	Allusion	A casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event	39