AP Literature "Lit Terms" Flashcards

3680603009	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture thay can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a mornal or political one	0
3680603010	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	1
3680603011	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference	2
3680603012	Ambiguity	Uncertainty or in exactness of meaning in language	3
3680603013	Anachronism	A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned	4
3680603014	Analogy	A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification	5
3680603015	Arête	The aggregate of qualities or valor and virtue making up good characters. Constant striving for perfection but at the same time knowing it can not be reached	6
3680603016	Anaphora	The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition	7
3680603017	Anastrophe	A figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed	8
3680603018	Anthropomorphism	The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object	9
3680603019	Antithesis	The use of two contrasting meanings in close proximity to each other	10
3680603020	Aphorism	A short saying that is often true	11
3680603021	Aporia	A speaker may seem to be in doubt or confusion on a question, so the speaker will ask a rhetorical question.	12
3680603022	Apostrophe	The speaker detaches himself from reality and addresses an imaginary character or idea	13
3680603023	Archetype	A typical character or situation that represents such universal patters of human nature	14
3680603024	Assonance	When words close together repeat the vowel sound but start with different consonants	15
3680603025	Asyndeton	To eliminate conjunctions between sentences get keep grammatical sense	16
3680603026	Ballad	A lyrical song/poem that praises a particular thing	17
3680603027	Blank verse	Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter	18
3680603028	Cacophony	A mixture of harsh and Inharmonious sounds	19
3680603029	Canto	One of the principal divisions of an epic or narrative poem	20
3680603030	Caesura	A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics	21
3680603031	Circumlocution	A rhetorical device that can be defined as an ambiguous or pardoned way of explaining ideas or things	22
3680603032	Cogito ego lum	I think, therefore I am	23
3680603033	Conflict	A literary that involves a struggle between two opposing forxes	24
3680603034	Connotation	A certain negative or positive resonance that words carry. Implied meaning	25
3680603035	Consonance	Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	26
3680603036	Denotation	Literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative meaning	27
3680603037	Dactyl	A metrical foot, or a rest in a line in the order of accent/unaccent/unaccent	28
3680603038	Didactic	An idea that different forms of art and must convey info or instruments along with emotional meaning	29
3680603039	Denouement	The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work	30
3680603040	Digression	The act of an instance of digressing (turning away from a point) in a discourse or other organized literary work	31
3680603041	Double entendre	Ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation	32
3680603042	Doppelgänger	A ghostly counterpart of a living person; a double	33
3680603043	Elegy	A poem or song expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for the dead	34
3680603044	Ekphrastic	A form of writing, mostly poetry, wherein the author describes another work of art	35
3680603045	Enjambment	To direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition	36
3680603046	Emulation	Ambitious or envious rivalry	37
3680603047	Epigram	A concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought.	38
3680603048	Eponym	One for whom or which something is or is believed to be named	39
3680603049	Epiphany	The moment in a story when a character achieves realization or awareness	40
3680603050	Epistle	A literary composition in the form of a letter	41
3680603051	Epithet	Describes a place, thing, or person in a way that makes their characteristics more prominent	42
3680603052	Etymology	Refers to the origin of derivation of a word.	43
3680603053	Euphemism	Refers to polite, indirect expressions to replace harsher, unpleasant phrases	44
3680603054	Euphony	Words or phrases that are distinguished as having a loneliness in the sounds they create	45
3680603055	Fable	Short story that teaches a moral leason	46
3680603056	Flashback	Interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background	47
3680603057	Foil	Character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character	48
3680603058	Foreshadowing	To include subtle hints of what may come in the future	49
3680603059	Free verse	A poetic style that lacks regular meter or rhythm	50
3680603060	Grotesque	Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted	51
3680603061	Hamartia	A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine	52
3680603062	Heroic couplet	A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, used by 17th or 18th century poets	53
3680603063	Homily	A religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctoral instruction	54
3680603064	Hubris	A personality flaw of a character who enjoys a powerful position, which ends up becoming their demise	55
3680603065	Hyperbole	An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis	56
3680603066	Iamb	a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.	57
3680603067	Imagery	Figurative language to represent object or ideas In a way that appeals to our physical senses	58
3680603068	Internal rhyme	Metrical lines in which its middle words and end words rhyme with each other	59
3680603069	Invective	Denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution. This negativity is typically employed in both poetry and prose to reiterate the significance of the emotions of the writer.	60
3680603070	Dramatic irony	An important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry	61
3680603071	Situational irony	A literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. It happens when the outcome is not what the audience expected	62
3680603072	Juxtaposition	A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side In a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts	63
3680603073	Lyrical	Something, a form of literature, that is typically accompanied by music.	64
3680603074	Malapropism	A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression	65
3680603075	Metaphor	A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics in common between them	66
3680603076	Metonymy	A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely related	67
3680603077	Motif	An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work	68
3680603078	Mood	A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers	69
3680603079	Nemesis	A literary device that refers to a situation of poetic justice where the good characters are rewarded for their virtues and the evil characters are punished for their vices	70
3680603080	Neologism	A newly coined word or phrase	71
3680603081	Novella	A short novel or a long story	72
3680603082	Onomatopoeia	A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing	73
3680603083	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	74
3680603084	Parable	A short story which presents a short story with a moral lesson at the end	75
3680603085	Parody	An imitation of a particular writer, artists, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect	76
3680603086	Paradox	Contrary to expectations, existing belief, or performed opinion	77
3680603087	Pentameter	A literary device that can be defined as a line or verse that has five strong metrical feet or beats	78
3680603088	Primogeniture	The fact that children were meant to inherit all properly and others from their parents	79
3680606699	Personification	A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an animal is given human attributes	80
3680607541	Point of View	The angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation	81
3680609649	Polysyndeton	A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect	82
3680613102	Portmanteau	A literary device in which two or more words are joined together to coin a new word	83
3680614407	Prologue	An opening of a story that establishes the setting and gives background details	84
3680616584	Prosody	The study of meter, intonation, and rhythm of a poetic work	85
3680617896	Quatrain	A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines	86
3680619723	Repartee	A conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies	87
3680621011	Roman a clef	A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names	88
3680622353	Rhetorical Question	A question that you ask without expecting an answer	89
3680623363	Reliability	A quality of some fictional narratives whose word the reader can trust	90
3680624475	Syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them	91
3680625486	Satire	A literary work in which humans vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.	92
3680628628	Setting	An environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.	93
3680629662	Simile	A figure of language used to compare two things with 'like' or 'as'	94
3680630807	Sonnet	A poem with 14 lines, written in Iambic pentameter	95
3680631527	Stanza	A division of four or more lines having fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme.	96
3680632655	Stream of Consciousness	A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters	97
3680635225	Sublime	English Romantics began to view the sublime as referring to a 'realm of experience beyond the measure' that is beyond definition.	98
3680637935	Synecdoche	A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.	99
3680639240	Synesthesia	A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense like hearing, seeing, smell, etc at a given time	100
3680642108	Syntax	A set of rules in a language	101
3680643145	Tabula Rosa	The idea that humanist is born completely innocent, without any initial predispositions, attitudes, or beliefs.	102
3680644350	Terza Rima	A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme.	103
3680645949	Tetrameter	A line of four metrical feet	104
3680648961	Triplet	A rather rare stanza form in poetry and is basically three lines that rhyme	105
3680649641	Theme	A main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.	106
3680650757	Tone	An attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience	107
3680652916	Tragedy	A kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner.	108
3680656039	Understatement	A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.	109
3680657189	Verisimilitude	Likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictions work to a real event even if it is a far-fetched one	110
3680661027	Versification	The change from prose into metrical form	111