AP Literature Exam vocabulary Flashcards

4229504652	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-konwn historical or literary event, person, or work	0
4229508492	attitude	a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject	1
4229511529	details	items or parts that make up a larger picture or story	2
4229514969	devices of sound	the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry	3
4229521183	diction	word choice	4
4229524461	figurative language	uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning	5
4229526882	imagery	the images, sensory details, or figurative language of a work. The visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes	6
4229533250	irony	a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning; discrepancy	7
4229539390	metaphor	a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than"	8
4229542672	narrative techniques	the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a write of stories or accounts	9
4229545484	omniscient point of view	the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses	10
4229549015	point of view	any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told	11
4229550442	resources of language	a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use	12
4229552580	symbol	something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else	13
4229555339	syntax	the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence	14
4229557435	theme	the main thought expressed by a work	15
4229559189	tone	the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. Described by adjectives, and the possibilities are nearly endless	16
4229564974	allegory	a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning	17
4229566975	ambiguity	multiple meanings as a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible	18
4229569260	apostrophe	direct adress, usually to someone or something that is not present	19
4229572430	connotation	the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning	20
4229575441	convention	a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expressions. (Ex. a lover observing the literary love connections cannot ear or sleep and grows pale and lean. Romeo, at the beginning of the play, is a conventional lover, while an overweight lover in Chaucer is consciously mocking the convention	21
4229585870	denotation	the dictionary meaning of a word	22
4229587868	didactic	explicitly instructive (can be good or bad)	23
4229589288	digression	the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work	24
4229591015	epigram	a pithy saying, often using contrast. The epigram is also a verse form, usually brief and pointed	25
4229594751	euphemism	a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as "deceased" for "dead"	26
4229600570	grotesque	characterized by distortions or incongruities	27
4229602626	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. As a rule, it is self-conscious without the intent of being accepted literally	28
4229607221	jargon	the special language of a profession or group. Usually has pejorative associations, with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders	29
4229613264	literal	not figurative, accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete	30
4229615232	lyrical	songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination	31
4229617397	oxymoron	a combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms	32
4229619685	parable	a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Allegorical stories.	33
4229621818	paradox	a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true	34
4229625525	parody	a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect	35
4229627721	personification	a figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman (ideas, inanimate objects, animals, abstractions) with human characteristics	36
4229630944	reliability	a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust	37
4229634163	rhetorical question	a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer	38
4229639977	soliloquy	a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. A monologue also has a single speaker, but the monologist speaks to others who do not interrupt	39
4229643776	stereotype	a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea	40
4229646432	syllogism	a form of reason in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. Begins with a major premise ("all tragedies end unhappily"), followed by a minor premise ("Hamlet is a tragedy"), and ending with a conclusion ("Hamlet ends unhappily")	41
4229654346	thesis	the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support	42
4229659068	alliteration	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words	43
4229662263	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	44
4229664031	ballad meter	a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines on and three and three feet in lines two and four	45
4229667470	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	46
4229668675	dactyl	a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables	47
4229673381	end-stopped	a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are this	48
4229676846	free verse	poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical	49
4229679883	heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit	50
4229682959	hexameter	a line containing six feet	51
4229682961	iamb	a two-syllable for with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The most common foot in English poetry	52
4229686931	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	53
4229688779	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	54
4229690449	pentameter	a line containing five feet, the most common line in English verse written before 1950	55
4229692185	rhyme royal	a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets	56
4229698324	sonnet	normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem	57
4229702386	Italian sonnet	rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde	58
4229704755	Petrachan sonnet	rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde	59
4229706294	English sonnet	rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg	60
4229708657	Shakespearean sonnet	rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg	61
4229710432	stanza	usually a repeated grouping of there or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	62
4229713014	terza rima	a three-line stanza rhymed aba, abcb, cdc	63
4229714707	tetrameter	a line of four feet	64
4229722041	antecedent	that which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers (ex. in "the witches cast their spells," it (of their) is "witches")	65
4229730301	clause	a group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence	66
4229732507	ellipsis	the omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable	67
4229735961	imperative	the mood of a verb that gives an order	68
4229737252	modify	to restrict or limit in meaning (ex. "large, shaggy dog;" "large" and "shaggy" do this)	69
4229744475	parallel structure	a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph	70
4229748603	periodic sentence	a sentence grammatically complete only at the end. Put the important idea at the end	71
4229750147	loose sentence	a sentence grammatically complete before the period. Put the important idea first	72
4229756381	syntax	the structure of a sentence	73