AP Literature - Literary Terms Flashcards

6668783738	didactic	Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson	0
6668783745	epistolary	A piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters	1
6668783749	frame story	A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story	2
6690843073	free-indirect style	a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech	3
6690844938	gothic	characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion	4
6690845597	lampoon	a satire in prose or verse ridiculing a person, literary work, etc.	5
6690846216	loose/cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions	6
6690847657	malapropism	use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression	7
6690849045	missive	letter	8
6690849046	monologue	a long speech monopolizing conversation	9
6690851278	noble savage	a mythic conception of people belonging to non-European cultures as having innate natural simplicity and virtue uncorrupted by European civilization	10
6690852742	panegyric	formal or elaborate praise	11
6690853233	parallel character	character that shares similar characteristics to the protagonist, highlights certain qualities	12
6690854135	pathos	an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion	13
6690855670	periodic sentence	a usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause	14
6690856817	tabula rasa	the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions	15
6690857587	tragic hero	a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering	16
6690859388	verisimilitude	the appearance of being true or real	17
6690860236	arabesque	graceful and flowing	18
6690862044	acrimonious	bitter or harsh	19
6690862813	grandiloquent	overly self-assured	20
6690863797	magnanimous	noble and generous	21
6690865101	mollifying	pacifying	22
6690866288	petulant	irritated without reason	23
6690867295	sardonic	mocking or sarcastic	24
6690868972	vituperative	harshly critical and irate	25