AP Literature: Quiz 1 Terms Flashcards

6266426048	allegory	a story with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning ex. animal farm	0
6266426049	alliteration	the repitition of the same sounds, usually initial consonants, in neighboring words ex. anxious ants avoid anteaters	1
6266426050	allusion	an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand	2
6266426051	ambiguity	a word, phrase or attitude that has double or even multiple meanings, resulting in multiple interpretations	3
6266426052	anachronism	an event, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time ex. back to the future	4
6266426053	anagnorisis	the critical moment of recognition or discovery in a tragedy	5
6266426054	anaphora	the regular reputation of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses	6
6266426055	antithesis	a figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other using grammatically parallel syntax	7
6266426056	apostrophe	a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction	8
6266426057	archetype	a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal	9
6266426058	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words	10
6266426059	asyndeton	conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose	11
6266426060	ballad	a form of narrative poetry that presents a single dramatic episode, which is often tragic or violent	12
6266426061	bildungsroman	a coming of age work that follows its protagonist from youth to experience, or maturity ex. to kill a mockingbird, harry potter	13
6266426062	blank verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	14
6266426063	bombast	speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words	15
6266426064	burlesque	an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity	16
6266426065	cacophony	harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery	17
6266426066	caesura	a pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences	18
6266426067	caricature	a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things ex. clueless	19
6266426068	catharsis	the effect of purification achieved by tragic drama; emotional release	20
6266426069	chiasmus	grammatical structure in which the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words.	21
6266426070	classicism	an adherence to the principals of greek and roman literature	22
6266426071	climax	the turning point or high point in a plot's action	23
6266426072	colloquial	words or phrases that are used in everyday conversation; informal writing	24
6266426073	conceit	an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feelings	25
6266426074	consonance	the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different	26
6266426075	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and that are written to the same meter	27
6266426076	dactyl	metrical foot of three syllables, on accented followed by two unaccented	28
6266426077	dénouement	the portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries	29
6266426078	determinism	philosophy that suggests people's actions and all other events are determined by forces over which human beings have no control ex. romeo and juliet	30
6266426079	deus ex machina	the resolution of a plot by use of highly improbable change, coincidence or artificial device that solves some difficult problem or crisis	31
6266426080	diction	the choice of words used in a literary work	32
6266426081	digression	a portion of a written work that interrupts or pauses the development of the theme of plot	33
6266426082	dissonance	harshness of sound and/or rhyme, either inadvertent or deliberate	34
6266426083	dramatic irony	a situation in which the audience knows more about a character's situation that the character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the character's expectations ex. romeo and juliet	35
6266426084	dystopia	an undesirable imaginary society	36
6266426085	elegy	an elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure, or serious reflection on a serious subject	37
6266426086	end-stopped	a line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax	38
6266426087	enjambment	the running over of the sense and grammatical structure form one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause	39
6266426088	epic	a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes in a grand style ex. the odyssey	40
6266426089	epistolary	a novel written in the form of correspondence between characters ex. frankenstein, perks of being a wallflower	41
6266426090	epithet	any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality ex. "richard the lion-hearted"	42
6266426091	euphony	a pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination	43
6266426092	exegesis	critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of text	44
6266426093	exposition	the setting forth of a systematic explanation of or argument about nay subject; or the opening part of a play or story	45
6266426094	extended metaphor	a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem	46
6266426095	fable	a brief tale that conveys a moral lesson usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things ex. the tortoise and the hare	47
6266426096	falling action	the segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion	48
6266426097	farce	a type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot	49
6266426098	feminine rhyme	two-syllable rhyme	50
6266426099	first person pov	the story is told by one of its characters, using the first person pronoun "i" which does not give the reader insight into the other characters' motives or thoughts	51
6266426100	flashback	a way or presenting scenes or incidents that took place before the opening scene	52