AP Literature Vocabulary Review 2 Flashcards

6680089271	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect	0
6680091642	iambic pentameter	the most common metrical pattern in English poetry; made up of a line of 5 stressed/unstressed syllables; also called blank verse	1
6680100567	imagery	a description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds; a sensory impression	2
6680106588	in media res	"in the middle of things"; a technique in which a narrative begins in the middle of the action	3
6680108592	inversion	the alteration of the standard English word order of subject verb; used for emphasis or to slow the pace	4
6680114633	juxtaposition	placing two things side by side for the sake of comparison or contrast; sometimes used to create irony	5
6680122866	lyric	a short poem expressing the personal feelings of a first-person speaker	6
6680125364	metaphor	a comparison that does not use like or as; "For this, for everything, we are out of tune." -Wordsworth	7
6680141803	conceit	a literary device that sets up a striking analogy between two entities that would not usually invite comparison, often drawing comparisons between the physical and spiritual	8
6680146661	meter	the formal, regular organization of stressed and unstressed syllables, measured in feet	9
6680149816	metonymy	a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it: "England hath need of thee: she is a fen/Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen" (Wordsworth) Altar=religion, sword=military; pen=the arts	10
6680170934	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole: "They were called legs or grunts" (Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried).	11
6680183941	motif	a recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature	12
6680188978	narrative frame/frame story	a plot device in which the author places the main narrative of his/her work within another narrative (think Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)	13
6680274527	unreliable narrator	a narrator who is biased and doesn't give a full or accurate picture of events, possibly due to youth, inexperience, madness, intentional or unintentional bias, or even a lack of morals (think "My Last Duchess" and "The Cask of Amontillado")	14
6680295285	ode	a form of poetry used to mediate on or address a single object or condition; usually followed strict rules of form and meter	15
6680300064	onomatopoeia	use of words that refer to sound and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds	16
6680302805	oxymoron	a paradox created of two seemingly contradictory words placed side by side: "Out of the murderous innocence of the sea." Yeats	17
6680310112	parable	a tale told explicitly to illustrate a moral lesson	18
6680312359	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but actually is not: "For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such/As what he loves may never like to much." Ben Jonson, "On My First Son"	19
6680320362	parallel structure	the repeated use of similar grammatical structures for the purpose of emphasis	20
6680324451	parody	a comic imitation of a particular literary work or style	21
6680327079	passive voice	a sentence employs the passive voice when the subject doesn't act but is acted on: "Midway down they were held up by Mary Jane..."	22
6680332591	pastoral	literature that employs a romanticized description of leisurely farm or rural life	23
6680336017	persona	a voice and viewpoint that an author adopts in order to deliver a story or poem	24
6680339220	personification	giving an inanimate object human qualities	25
6680343790	plot	the sequence of events of a literary work	26
6680345726	rhetorical question	intended to emphasize a point/make an assertion rather than actually solicit an answer: Do you want to graduate, or not?	27
6680348927	satire	a literary work that critiques society or an individual	28
6680358460	setting	when, where, in what social context, a story occurs	29
6680362029	simile	a comparison between two unlike things using "like," "as," "resembles," "as though": "the eyes chilly and somber like the ocean in March"- Tim O'Brien	30
6680371785	Petrarchan sonnet	also called the Italian sonnet, a poetic form composed of 14 lines of iambic pentameter composed of an octave and a sestet	31
6680379624	Shakespearean sonnet	also called the English sonnet, 14 lines of iambic pentameter comprised of 3 quatrains and a couplet	32
6680387854	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	33
6680390198	stream of consciousness	a technique in which prose follows the logic and flow of a character's though processes- associations, tangents, seemingly strange transitions- rather than a more ordered narrative	34
6680402639	style	the way a literary work is written; produced by an author's choices in diction, syntax, imagery, figurative language, and other literary elements	35
6680406509	suspense	a literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting	36
6680409817	symbol	a setting, object, or event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and represents something significant to understanding the MOWW	37
6680413574	syntax	the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences in a prose passage; includes word order (subject-verb-complement OR inverted structure), the length and type of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound complex), the chronology of passages, connectors, etc.	38
6680440222	theme	the MOWW- the central message about life conveyed by a literary work	39
6680444392	tone	the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject	40
6680447417	tragedy	a serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to a character trait (tragic flaw)	41
6680452624	tragic hero	a character who possesses a flaw or commits an error in judgment that leads to his own downfall or reversal of fortune	42
6680475002	understatement	the presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, awful, good, powerful, etc than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect, but also for emphasis in general	43
6680485862	verse	writing that is metered and rhythmic- poetry	44
6680487981	vignette	a short narrative scene or description, often one in a series	45
6680490937	villanelle	a form of poetry in which 5 tercets (aba) are followed by a quatrain (abaa) and at the end of the tercets two and four, the first line of tercet one is repeated- refrain- see Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle..."	46
6680502984	wordplay	techniques by which writers manipulate language for effect; puns; see The Importance of Being Ernest	47