ap literature terms Flashcards
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| 4868873297 | allusion | a reference to a person, place or event mesnt to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea | 0 | |
| 4868873298 | archetype | an abstract or ideal conception of a type: a perfectly typical example; an original model or form | 1 | |
| 4868873299 | dramatic irony | A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character | 2 | |
| 4868873300 | extended metaphor | a series of comparisons between two unlike subjects | 3 | |
| 4868873301 | figurative language | in contrast to literal language, this implies meanings, figures of speech include metaphors, similes and personification, amoung many other things | 4 | |
| 4868873302 | foreshadowing | provides hints of things to come in a story or play | 5 | |
| 4868873303 | hyperbole | overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 6 | |
| 4868873304 | image | a word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or felt | 7 | |
| 4868873305 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 8 | |
| 4868873306 | moral | a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 9 | |
| 4868873307 | mood | the emotional tone in a work of literature | 10 | |
| 4868873308 | motif | a phrase, idea or event that through repitition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature | 11 | |
| 4868873309 | personification | a figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics | 12 | |
| 4868873310 | setting | the total environment for the action in a novel or play. it includes time, place, historical milieu and social, political and even spiritual circumstances | 13 | |
| 4868873311 | simile | a figurative comparison using the words LIKE or AS | 14 | |
| 4868873312 | symbolism | the use of one objet to invoke ideas and associations not literally part of the orginal object | 15 | |
| 4868873313 | theme | the main Idea or meaning often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built | 16 | |
| 4868873314 | tone | the author's attitude towards the subject being written about. This is the characteristic emotion that pervades a work or part of a work - the spirit or quality that is the works essential essence | 17 | |
| 4868873315 | verbal irony | a discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words | 18 |