AP Literature Flashcards

7315148341	Allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	0
7315148342	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words.	1
7315148343	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	2
7315151003	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	3
7315151004	Analogy	A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.	4
7315151005	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.	5
7315153311	Anastrophe	The order of a noun and adjective are exchanged (switched around).	6
7315154012	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.	7
7315154013	Antagonist	A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.	8
7315156497	Antimetabolite	A chemical that inhibits the use of metabolite.	9
7315108403	Antithesis	A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences.	10
7315108404	Antihero	A protagonist who is marked unheroic; morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities.	11
7315118767	Anthropomorphism	When animals are given human characteristics; often confused with personification.	12
7315253386	Aphorism	A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment.	13
7315253387	Apostrophe	Calling at an imaginary dead or nonhuman.	14
7315254811	Apposition	Noun phrases side by side where one element serves to define the other.	15
7315254812	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."	16
7315257919	Asyndeton	The deliberate omission of conjunctions from series of related independent clauses. The effect is to create a tight, concise, and forceful sentence.	17
7315261310	Balance	A sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast.	18
7429590368	Characterization	The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.	19
7429599495	Indirect Characterization	The author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the reader looks, dresses, says, thinks, feels, behaves, or acts.	20
7429628548	Direct Characterization	The author tells us directly what the character is like.	21
7429636847	Static Character	One who does not change much like in the course of the story.	22
7429651056	Dynamic Character	One who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action.	23
7429661827	Flat Character	Has only one or two personality traits; they can be summed up in one phrase.	24
7429670495	Round Character	Has more dimensions to their personality.	25
7429681511	Chiasmus	A rhetorical balance in poetry in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. Example: "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike."	26
7429712432	Cliche	A word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.	27
7429722196	Colloquialism	A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations.	28
7731103392	Comedy	in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.	29
7731103393	Conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor.	30
7731106708	Confessional Poetry	a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.	31
7731106709	Conflict	the struggle between opposing forces or characters in the story.	32
7731109766	External Conflict	conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person and a whole society.	33
7731113276	Internal Conflict	a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forced within a person's.	34
7731116096	Connotation	the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.	35
7731116097	Couplet	two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.	36
7731119245	Dialect	a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.	37
7731119246	Diction	a speaker or writer's choice of words.	38
7906504001	Didactic	intended to teach; morally instructive	39
7906504002	Elegy	a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died	40
7906507948	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning	41
7916287770	Epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	42
7906587694	Epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	43
7916308924	Epithet	a descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something	44
7916311277	Essay	a short nonfiction work about a particular subject	45
7906620139	Persuasion	relies more on emotional appeals than on facts	46
7906626788	Argument	form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way	47
7906681950	Causal Relationship	form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument	48
7906698077	Description	a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion	49
7906734408	Exposition	one of the four major forms of discourse in which something is explained or "set forth"	50
7916321725	Narrative	the form of discourse that tells about a series of events	51
8156337740	Explication		52
8156337741	Fable	a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life	53
8156342440	Farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved	54
8156345081	Figurative Language		55
8156345082	Flashback		56
8156349410	Foil		57
8156349411	Foreshadowing	the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot	58
8156354116	Free Verse	poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme	59
8156354117	Hyperbole	exaggeration	60
8156359360	Hypotactic	sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them	61
8240263986	Imagery	the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience	62
8240291625	Inversion	the reversal of the normal word	63
8240291626	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	64
8240299426	Verbal irony	occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else	65
8240313341	Situational irony	takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen	66
8240335341	Dramatic irony	is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better	67
8240367460	Juxtaposition	a form of contrast by which writers call attention to dissimilar ideas or images or metaphors	68
8240383105	Litotes	a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form	69
8240404518	Local color	a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape	70
8240432413	Loose sentence	one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units	71