AP Literature Terms III Flashcards

7325974220	anachronism	a person, scene, event, etc. that does not correspond to the time period of the overall work	0
7325979771	antithesis	a rhetorical opposition or contract of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement	1
7325984857	aphorism	a short, blunt statement of generally accepted truth	2
7325993520	bathos	the use of insincere or overdone sentimentality	3
7325998958	bombast	inflated, pretentious language	4
7326001638	cacophony	grating, inharmonious sounds	5
7326006844	deus ex machina	a gimmick to solve a problem e.g. a "cheap" ending	6
7326015692	empathy	a feeling of association or identification with an object or person	7
7326034523	euphemism	a mild or less negative usage of a harsh or blunt term e.g. "pass away" for "death" or "alternative facts" for "lies"	8
7326045483	genre	a term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, essay, etc.	9
7326050872	hubris	the excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death	10
7326057257	in medias res	a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some critical moment	11
7326063133	kenning	a device in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which a name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities e.g. "whale-road" for "ocean"	12
7326075860	litotes ("light-oh-tease")	a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity e.g. "He is not a bad dancer"	13
7326090181	non sequitur	a statement or idea that fail to follow logically from the one before it	14
7326096052	paraphrase	a version of a text put into simpler, everyday words	15
7326099617	pulp fiction	novels written for mass consumption	16
7326105556	trope	blanket term for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, metaphor, etc.	17