AP Literature Flashcards

2868890614	Old English	(400-1150) the language of the Anglo-Saxons, a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from Modern English	0
2868892496	Middle English	(1150-1500) refers to the dialects of the English language spoken in parts of the British Isles after the Norman conquest (1066); more heterogeneous with other languages mixed in (French)	1
2868894283	Modern English	(1470-now) English language as it has been since about 1500; more heterogenous than Middle English	2
2868894554	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words; shared sound at the beginning of the word when words are in close proximity	3
2868897330	assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	4
2868898613	consonance	the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity	5
2868899176	allusion	an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text	6
2868899598	personification	attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	7
2868902491	anthropomorphism	attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object	8
2868902746	prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure	9
2868903387	verse	poetry; writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	10
2868903656	literal language	means exactly what it says	11
2868903764	figurative language	uses metaphors, similes, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different	12
2868904699	stanza	a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse	13
2868906547	line	a single line of words in a poem	14
2868909047	caesura	(in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot	15
2868910299	enjambment	(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza	16
3001080352	theme	central topic a text addresses; not the same as thesis	17
3001084032	synesthesia	writing technique to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time; jumbling of senses	18
3001086578	syntax	set of rules in a language that dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought	19
3001088730	synecdoche	figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa; steel instead of saying sword	20
3001095624	metonymy	substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant, but doesn't literally mean it	21
3001096938	trope	a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; repeated, reusable thing in literature	22
3001098575	embodiment	representation or expression of something in a tangible or visible form	23
3001099891	emblem	a physical representation serving as a symbolic representation of a particular quality or concept	24
3001099892	symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else	25
3001101707	metaphor	a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else; figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	26
3001103293	content	all the stuff that goes into a work	27
3001103294	form	the technical components that hold the work together	28
3001104985	irony	technique in which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character	29
3001106595	mood	feeling or vibe from a work; what emotion the characters and setting evokes	30
3001106596	tone	attitude of speaker, narrator, or author in a work, plus the intensity of that attitude	31
3001108544	narrator	the voice that the author takes on to tell a story; in prose	32
3001110272	speaker	the person or thing talking at a certain moment; in poetry	33