AP Literature Flashcards

3350382674	Enlightment	Potential of knowledge and reason to understand and change the world	0
3350382675	Epic	Tell a story of societies and heros	1
3350382676	Epigram	Memorable brief satirical statement	2
3350382677	Exposition	Introduce background information about events,settings, characters, etc	3
3350382678	Euphemism	Idiomatic expression which loses its literal meaning and refers to something else in order to hide its unpleasantness	4
3350382679	Euphony	Use of words and phrases to create loveliness in the sounds they create	5
3350382680	Farce	Highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience	6
3350382681	Foreshadowing	Writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story	7
3350382682	Free verse	Doesn't rhyme with fixed forms	8
3350382683	Gothic	Mystery and supernatural horror	9
3350397602	Colloquialism	Use of informal words	10
3350399186	Conceit	Extended metaphor	11
3350400431	Connotation	Implied meaning	12
3350402573	Denotation	Dictionary meaning	13
3350406363	Consonance	Consonant sound is repeated	14
3350409068	Couplet	Pair of lines in poem	15
3350411139	Dialect	Language used/how you talk	16
3350415514	Diction	Choice of words and style	17
3350417498	Dramatic monologue	Characters speaks to a silent listener	18
3350419642	Elegy	Mournful poem	19
3350422597	Enjambment	Moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark	20
3350439286	Assonance	Resemblance of sounds	21
3350441472	Asyndeton	Conjunctions are omitted in a series of words	22
3350444380	Attitude	Way in which authors approach subject and situations	23
3350446886	Ballad	Narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk	24
3350455022	Bildungsroman	Novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main characters	25
3350464355	Blank verse	A verse that has no rhyme scheme but does have a regular meter	26
3350468434	Cacophony	Harsh or discordant sounds	27
3350471648	Caricature	Description of a person using exaggeration of some characters and over simplification of others	28
3350480613	Chiasmus	Reversing the order of words in the sound of a two parallel phrases	29
3350485219	Classicism	Style of writing that consciously emulates the forms and subject matter of classical antiquity	30
3350514564	Aesthetics	Literary work dealing with the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty	31
3350519606	Allegory	Using materials forms to represent an abstract or spiritual meaning	32
3350523283	Alliteration	Same consonant sounds repeated in a sentence or words starting with the same letter multiple times	33
3350529035	Allusion	Referencing another literary work in a writing	34
3350531923	Anaphora	Using the same combination of words to start sentences in a row	35
3350536708	Ancedote	A short story in a writing	36
3350538328	Antagonist	A character that does against the main character in writing	37
3350545221	Antithesis	Words that are opposite of each other that are next to each other	38
3350549491	Apostrophe	When a character of a poem says something to someone who is not there	39
3350553579	Archetype	An original work that writers go of on to write their own writing	40