AP Literature Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

4385704500	metaphysical	highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression	0
4385704502	romantic	characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical	1
4385706224	neoclassical	Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome	2
4385712239	metonomy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing	3
4385712240	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team")	4
4385757909	inverted syntax	when lines do not follow traditional sentence patterns, for example when the subject and verb or the object and subject are reversed	5
4385763955	imperatives	requests, suggestions, advice, or commands	6
4385799587	pathetic fallacy	the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature	7
4385801415	tongue-in-cheek	without really meaning what one is saying or writing; joking or kidding	8
4385801416	acrimonious	angry and bitter	9
4385801417	rueful	expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way	10
4385811552	foreboding	fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen	11
4385818841	anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	12
4385829537	zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts )	13
4385831783	panegyric	a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something	14
4385831784	gerunds	a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you?	15
4385841214	participles	an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend	16
4385843763	intercession	the action of intervening on behalf of another	17
4385843764	imprecation	a spoken curse	18
4385847982	euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	19
4385869645	syllogism	an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs )	20
4385884756	purple prose	prose that is too elaborate or ornate	21