AP Literature - Terms Set 2 Flashcards

3903802504	Bildungsroman	a novel where the character goes through maturity because of an emotionally loss, book is about a quest of maturity	0
3903803020	Aposiopesis	A figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by th	1
3903803373	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.	2
3903803870	Didacticism	instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical, or religious matters	3
3903805679	Epigraph	A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme.	4
3903805998	Dysphemism	A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one	5
3903807098	Rhetorical Shift	a change from one tone, attitude, etc . . . Look for key words like but, however, even though, although, yet, etc. (Volta)	6
3903808772	Hamartia	a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine	7
3903809151	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	8
3903809683	Verisimilitude	the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable	9
3903810755	End Rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	10
3903810756	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	11
3903811168	Meiosis	a witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody, particularly by making use of terms that gives impression that something is less important than it is or it should be	12
3903813719	Pleonasm	a rhetorical device which can be defined as the use of a second or more words (phrase) to express an idea	13
3903815854	Iambic Pentameter	A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.	14
3903816312	Deus Ex Machina	"An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery."	15
3903816987	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	16
3903817477	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	17
3903818057	Poetic Foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	18
3903818899	Epithet	An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to describe a characteristic or quality.	19
3903819649	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	20
3903820560	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	21
3903820882	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	22
3903821312	Aporia	Expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.	23
3903821806	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	24
3903822355	Conceit	A comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative. A comparison turns into a conceit when the writer tries to make us admit a similarity between two things of whose unlikeness we are strongly conscious and for this reason, conceits are often surprising.	25
3903823540	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	26
3903823878	Eristic	Device in which the writers and speakers engage in a heated argumentation without reaching a conclusion or solving a particular issue.	27
3903825100	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	28
3903825829	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	29
3903826128	Elocution	the art of public speaking, with attention to delivery	30
3903826507	Litotes	A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.	31
3903826875	Cliche	A worn-out idea or overused expression	32
3903826876	Hubris	A flaw in the personality of a character who enjoys a powerful position; as a result of which, he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses contact with reality.	33
3903828486	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	34
3903829041	Lyric Poem	A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling.	35
3903829359	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	36
3903829766	Archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	37
3903830793	Anachronism	Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period	38
3903830794	Ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter	39
3903831375	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order	40
3903831822	Blank Verse	Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter	41
3903832657	Chiasmus	a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Example: "Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love."	42
3903839699	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Ex: "living death"	43
3903841106	Extended Metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	44
3903842099	Juxtaposition	The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	45
3903843425	Free Verse	Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, length, or stanza arrangement	46
3903844842	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	47
3903845208	Jeremiad	an elaborate and lengthy tale of sadness	48
3903846741	Liminality	The critically important marginal or in-between phase of a rite of passage	49