50 AP Literature Terms Flashcards

7250654965	Ars Poetica	"the art of poetry"	0
7250661332	Archaic Language	Words that were once common but that are no longer used.	1
7250686197	Ballad	A sung poem that recounts a dramatic story	2
7250689062	Cadence	Quality of spoken text formed by combining the text's rhythm with the inflection of voice.	3
7250693369	Caricature	A character with exaggerated features or traits	4
7250697203	Catharsis	Refers to the emotional release felt by the audience at the end of a tragic drama.	5
7250702276	Stock Character	A type of flat character based on a stereotype	6
7250704720	Colonialism	The occupation of one country by another	7
7250706935	Epigram	A short, witty statement	8
7250709767	Epiphany	A character's transformative moment of realization	9
7250725894	Elegy	A contemplative poem on death and mortality often written for someone who has died	10
7250735776	Motif	A recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature.	11
7250738075	Novella	A short novel, Italian for "story"	12
7250746183	Ode	A form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition.	13
7250755831	Caesura	A pause within a line of poetry mirroring natural speech.	14
7250760933	Couplet	Two line stanza	15
7250761993	Tercet	Three line stanza	16
7250762096	Quatrain	Four line stanza	17
7250764167	Sestet	A six line stanza	18
7250764169	Octet	An eight line stanza	19
7250767700	Synecdoche	Figure of speech, part represents the whole	20
7250768885	Syntax	The arrangement of words in a sentence, clause, or phrase	21
7250775790	Tragic Hero	A character that possesses a flaw that leads to their downfall	22
7250779370	Theatrical Property	A prop in a play	23
7250782076	Vignette	A short narrative scene or description	24
7250783080	Villanelle	A form of poetry where 5 tercets are followed by a quatrain	25
7250785987	Zuegma	One verb is used with multiple objects so the definition of the verb is changed	26
7250791284	Wordplay	Technique by which writers manipulate language	27
7250800524	Harlem Renaissance	A movement in the 1920s and 1930s marked by a great flowering of black arts and culture centered in the Harlem neighborhood of NYC.	28
7250804278	hook	An opening piece of writing designed to catch the audience's attention.	29
7250806690	Hubris	An excessive level of pride that leads to the protagonist's downfall.	30
7250810208	iconography	The images or symbols used by an artist or present in a work of art	31
7250813248	in medias res	Latin for "in the middle of things"	32
7250816408	Kafkaesque	Having the nightmarish, uncanny characteristics of Kafka's stories	33
7250817527	Literary Elements	The components that together create a literary work.	34
7250819931	Lyric	A short poem expressing the personal feelings of a first-person speaker.	35
7277518820	Satire	A literary work that uses irony to critique society or an individual.	36
7277527567	Interrupted sentence	A sentence that is modified by interruptions that add description or details.	37
7277540882	Perriodic Sentence	A sentence that begins with details, qualifications, or modifications building towards the main clause.	38
7281309116	Epigraph	A quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggests its themes.	39
7281317751	Exposition	Background or contextual information told to the reader.	40
7281321996	Farce	A dramatic form marked by wholly absurd situations or raucous wordplay.	41
7281329854	Iamb	The most common metrical foot in English poetry. One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed.	42
7281335405	Impressionism	A movement of French painters in the 1870s-80's about capturing subjective experience of seeing things.	43
7281352963	Passive voice	Subject doesn't act but is acted on	44
7281358810	Resolution	The working out of a plot's conflicts.	45
7281367732	Stream of consciousness	A technique in which prose follows the logic and flow of a character's thought processes.	46
7281374656	Stage Directions	Notes in the script of a play that set guidelines for the performance	47
7281380208	Prose Poem	A blending of prose and poetry	48
7281381709	Realism	A literary technique that renders works that feels realistic.	49