AP Language and Literature: LIT TERMS Flashcards
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| 3484779722 | Allegory | A symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea. WIZARD OF OZ. |  | 0 |
| 3484779723 | Allusion | The author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference. | 1 | |
| 3484779724 | Anachronistic | Placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong. | 2 | |
| 3484779725 | Anaphora | The intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect, an example of rhetoric scheme |  | 3 |
| 3484779726 | Anecdote | Short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident, usually a reminiscence from the teller's life - a story of fact. |  | 4 |
| 3484779727 | Antihero | A protagonist who is a non-hero or the antithesis of a traditional hero. | 5 | |
| 3484779728 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, like liberty or love. |  | 6 |
| 3484779729 | Archetype | A reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of it's kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again, employ the use of a famous concept, person, or object to convey a wealth of meaning. |  | 7 |
| 3484779730 | Bildungsroman | A very popular form of storytelling whereby the author bases the plot on the overall growth of the central character through time. COMING-OF-AGE STORY like Catcher in the Rye. |  | 8 |
| 3484779731 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter - five feet per line. |  | 9 |
| 3484779732 | Connotation | The associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition, creating emotions and feelings. GANG = GROUP BUT WHEN YOU HEAR "GANG", YOU THINK VIOLENCE. |  | 10 |
| 3484779733 | Denotation | The use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word. |  | 11 |
| 3484779734 | Deus ex Machina | Uses an implausible concept or character in order to make the conflict in the story resolve. |  | 12 |
| 3484779735 | Dialect | A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people. |  | 13 |
| 3484779736 | Diction | Word Choice. |  | 14 |
| 3484779737 | Doppelganger | A character in the story that is actually a copy of a genuine character, usually has a different appearance but an earthly soul. |  | 15 |
| 3484779738 | Dramatic Irony | Involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know. |  | 16 |
| 3484779739 | Dystopia | An imaginary society in fictional writing that presents readers with a world where all citizens are universally unhappy, manipulated, etc. |  | 17 |
| 3484779740 | Elegy | A type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died. |  | 18 |
| 3484779741 | Epigraph | A saying or statement on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of a work. POINTS TO THE THEME. |  | 19 |
| 3484779742 | Enjambment | In poetry, the running over of a line or thought into the next of verse. |  | 20 |
| 3484779743 | Epistolary | Taking the form of a letter, or actually consisting of a letter written to another. |  | 21 |
| 3484779744 | Euphemism | Using a comparatively milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form. Used with sex, |  | 22 |
| 3484779745 | Foil | Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character, usually to highlight one of their attributes. |  | 23 |
| 3484779746 | Free Verse | Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme nor meter. Often used to capture the sounds and rhythms of ordinary speech. |  | 24 |
| 3484779747 | Heroic Couplet | A couplet consisting of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought. | 25 | |
| 3484779748 | Hubris | An overly arrogant character that allows reality slip away from them - they've just gained power and the belief they are "untouchable" |  | 26 |
| 3484779749 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken seriously. |  | 27 |
| 3484779750 | Imagery | Using words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader. Helps the reader to visualize more realistically the author's writings. |  | 28 |
| 3484779751 | Inmediasres | The classical tradition of opening an epic, not in chronological point at which the sequence of events would start, but rather the middle. |  | 29 |
| 3484779752 | Introspection | Observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc, the act of looking within oneself. |  | 30 |
| 3484779753 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things seen or places close together with contrast and effect, an act or instance of comparing/contrasting concepts. |  | 31 |
| 3484779754 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object/action to which it is not literally applicable; doesn't use "like" or "as" |  | 32 |
| 3484779755 | Meter | Determined by the predominant metrical foot in a poem. PATTERN. |  | 33 |
| 3484779756 | Metonymy | The metaphorical substitution of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase. ICON. THE WHITE HOUSE ISSUED A STATEMENT. | 34 | |
| 3484779757 | Modernism | 1. Early 1900s 2. Inability to Communicate 3. Isolation 4. Dehumanization (robots) 5. Stream of Consciousness 6. Breaking the Rules |  | 35 |
| 3484779758 | Mood | Definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work, mental/emotional disposition. |  | 36 |
| 3484779759 | Noble Savage | The depiction of Native Americans, African Americans, or Australian bushmen who haven't been tamed by civilization BUT they're extremely kind like Jim from Huck Finn. |  | 37 |
| 3484779760 | Ode | Poem of praise. |  | 38 |
| 3484779761 | Onomatopoeia | Words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict, refers to sound words whose pronunciation is the spelling. |  | 39 |
| 3484779762 | Oxymoron | JUMPO SHRIMP. Allows the author to use contradictory, contrasting concepts placed together to form a new meaning. |  | 40 |
| 3484779763 | Paradox | Concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together speak a truth. |  | 41 |
| 3484779764 | Parallelism | Repetition of grammatical structure. | 42 | |
| 3484779765 | Parody | A literally or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author's work for comic effect or ridicule (monkery). |  | 43 |
| 3484779766 | Pathetic Fallacy | The author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his or her characters to nonhuman objects or nature or phenomena, type of personification. RAIN AT A FUNERAL. |  | 44 |
| 3484779767 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | A <----- Octet B B A A <----- Sestet B B A C D C D C D |  | 45 |
| 3484779768 | Picaresque | A humorous novel in which the plot consists of a youth's misadventures and escapades narrated in comic or satiric scenes. |  | 46 |
| 3484779769 | Polysyndeton | The process of using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, played very close to one another. Adds dramatic effect! THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - HEMINGWAY "and...and...and" |  | 47 |
| 3484779770 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, often rhyming with an ABAB pattern and 3 quatrains form the main body of a Shakespearean sonnet (plus a final couplet). |  | 48 |
| 3484779771 | Retrospection | The action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past or a survey of past events or experiences. |  | 49 |
| 3484779772 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasion. |  | 50 |
| 3484779773 | Romanticism | The literary movement that stressed emotion, inherently good, humanity, and individualism. |  | 51 |
| 3484779774 | Satire | Making fun of a human weakness or character flaw in order to derive a reaction of contempt from the reader. |  | 52 |
| 3484779775 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another, using "like" or "as" |  | 53 |
| 3484779776 | Situational Irony | A difference between experience and expectation or a difference between a character's intentions and actual results of their actions. |  | 54 |
| 3484779777 | Soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone, revealing his thoughts and feelings. |  | 55 |
| 3484779778 | Stanza | Single, related chunk of lines in poetry which is usually four lines per group, with the simplest rhyme scheme "a-b-a-b" followed. |  | 56 |
| 3484779779 | Stream of Consciousness | An uninterrupted and unhindered collection and occurrence of thoughts and ideas in the conscious mind. |  | 57 |
| 3484779780 | Syllogism | A three-part deductive argument |  | 58 |
| 3484779781 | Symbol | Using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |  | 59 |
| 3484779782 | Synecdoche | Uses part of something to refer to the whole. SMALLER PIECE. BEN GOT A "NEW SET OF WHEELS"...HE REALLY GOT A NEW CAR. | 60 | |
| 3484779783 | Syntax | Word Order. YODA. |  | 61 |
| 3484779784 | Tone | The perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place, or development depicting a variety of emotions. |  | 62 |
| 3484779785 | Tragedy | A series of unfortunate events by which one or more of the literary characters in the story undergo several misfortunes. |  | 63 |
| 3484779786 | Understatement | Drawing attention to a fact that is already obvious and noticeable, usually done by way of sarcasm, irony, wryness, or dry humor. OPPOSITE OF HYPERBOLE. |  | 64 |
| 3484779787 | Utopia | An imaginary place or government with political and social perfection. |  | 65 |
| 3484779788 | Valediction | Bidding farewell or taking leave. |  | 66 |
| 3484779789 | Verbal Irony | A speaker's literal words (and their surface meaning) state the opposite of his or her actual meaning. |  | 67 |
| 3484779790 | Verisimilitude | Tried to find the truth. FOUND THE "SCARLET LETTER", A "TRUE" STORY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NOVEL. |  | 68 |