AP Literature Vocabulary Assignment Flashcards

7198983129	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	0
7198984053	alexandrine	(of a line of verse) having six iambic feet	1
7198986802	anachronism	an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period which it does not belong	2
7198993700	anapest	a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable	3
7198995524	anthropomorphism	a literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects.	4
7198996983	antihero	a main character that does not have the normal heroic attributes	5
7198998529	aphorism	a saying that has a general truth like, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it."	6
7199000661	apostrophe	an arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings	7
7199006140	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	8
7199007394	biographical criticism	a form of Literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their works of literature	9
7199010039	caesura	a break between words within a metrical foot	10
7199012481	carpe diem	seize the day in Latin	11
7199014388	classicism	the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome	12
7199016804	comedy	entertainment consisting of jokes to make an audience laugh	13
7199018791	complaint	a statement that is unsatisfactory or unacceptable	14
7199020975	conceit	an elaborate metaphor	15
7199022211	couplet, closed	a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought	16
7199024591	couplet, heroic	a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan	17
7199027216	dactyl	Prosody. a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly. Symbol:	18
7199031631	deconstructionist criticism	to seek out the contradictions in the text to prove that the text lacks unity and coherence	19
7199035326	dramatic monologue	a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation.	20
7199036829	elegy	a poem written in elegiac meter, sad or mournful	21
7199038550	epigram	A brief witty poem, often satirical.	22
7199040160	existentialism	a form of thought that stresses existence or experience over essence or meaning	23
7199041287	expressionism	a style that shows the audience the action of the play through the mind of one character.	24
7199042227	feminism	The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men	25
7199043324	formalism (New Criticism)	Instead, the objective determination as to "how a piece works" can be found through close focus and analysis, rather than through extraneous and erudite special knowledge	26
7199045343	frame story	A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story	27
7199046170	New Historicism	an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and historical circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated work of art or text	28
7199047488	iamb	a two-syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable.	29
7199047994	idyll	a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place	30
7199048392	impressionism	using many words to describe something; has deeper meaning not specifically written	31
7199049167	legend	a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.	32
7199049582	light verse	Humorous, comic, witty poems.	33
7199051354	litotes	Understatement	34
7199051724	Marxism	A body of thought deriving its main elements from Karl Marx's ideas (Militant, revolutionary form of socialism)	35
7199052696	mask	A feature that lets you protect or modify a particular area; created using a marquee.	36
7199054074	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	37
7199055365	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	38
7199056415	metric foot	Makes up the rhythm( which is the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats)	39
7199057493	neoclassicism	Literary imitation of the ancients making them new	40
7199058153	ode	a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life	41
7199059263	ottava rima	a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc	42
7199060249	pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	43
7199060701	pessimism	gloominess; a belief that the bad guys always win	44
7199061402	psychoanalytical criticism	studying a surface level of text and below it are symbols that actually mean something	45
7199062400	pyrrhic	A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables	46
7199062879	romance	Any literary work characterized by non-realistic and idealizing use of the imagination.	47
7199063999	scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	48
7199064559	spondee	A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed	49
7199064843	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	50
7199065304	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	51
7199065734	synaesthesia	the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another (EX: hearing a sound causes seeing a color)	52
7199066969	tercet	a three-line stanza	53
7199067221	terza rima	A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.	54
7199067701	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	55
7199068068	triplet	3 line stanza	56
7199068425	trochee	Stressed, unstressed	57
7199068684	verse	A single line of poetry	58
7199068685	villanelle	A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout.	59
7199069121	wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	60