AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Flashcards

5620462365	Allegory	Narrative in which the story has a greater symbolic meaning	0
5620462366	Alliteration	Repetition of consonants	1
5620462367	Allusion	Passing reference to person, place, events, literary works to enhance the subject in some way.	2
5620462368	Ambiguity	Single word, phrase, or device to express two or more diverse meanings, attitudes, or feelings	3
5620462369	Antithesis	Contrast or opposition in the meanings of continuous phrases or clauses.	4
5620462370	Atmosphere	Emotional tone pervading a section or entire literary work	5
5620462371	Ballad	Song, transmitted orally, that tells a story.	6
5620462372	Bathos	Unintentional descent when staring to be pathetic, passionate, or elevated.	7
5620462373	Anticlimac	Deliberate drop from the serious and elevated to the trivial and lowly.	8
5620462374	Blank Verse	Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Closest to he natural rhythms of English speech.	9
5620462375	Burlesque	Incongruous imitation to amuse by disparity between manner (style) and matter (content)	10
5620462376	Bombast	Worst and inflated diction disproportionate to the subject matter. (Polonius talk)	11
5620462377	Parody	Imitation of serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work.	12
5620462378	Carpe Diem	"Seize the day" common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most of his life and should enjoy it before it ends	13
5620462379	Characterization	Used to highlight and explain details about a character in a story &i how other characters react to its personality	14
5620462380	Comedy	Fictional work to interest and amuse	15
5620462381	Comic Relief	Comic episodes in dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections	16
5620462382	Conceit	The metaphor where two things are yoked together by violent force	17
5620462383	Connotation	Idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	18
5620462384	Denotation	The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.	19
5620462385	Didactic literature	Literature that is meant to teach the reader a lesson	20
5620462386	Dramatic monologue (poetry)	A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader	21
5620462387	Elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically lament for the dead	22
5620462388	Epic	A long serious poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero.	23
5620462389	Epigram	Short satirical and witty poem usually written as a couplet or quatrain. Brief and forceful remarks with a funny ending.	24
5620462390	Epiphany		25
5620462391	Epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned	26
5620462392	Euphamism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.	27
5620462393	Euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.	28
5620462394	Cacophany		29
5620462395	Figurative Language	EX: simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification	30
5620462396	Free verse		31
5620462397	Genre		32
5620462398	Gothic Novel		33
5620462399	Hyperbole	Intentional Exaggeration	34
5620462400	Undertatement	The opposite of hyperbole	35
5620462401	Imagery	If u don't know imagery u need some milk	36
5620462402	Irony		37
5620462403	Lyric		38
5620462404	Malapropism	The use of an incorrect with in place of a similar sounding word that results i a nonsensical and humorous expression.	39
5620462405	Meter	The stressed and unstressed syllabic patter in a verse or within the lines of a poem.	40
5620462406	Motif	a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme	41
5620462407	Theme	a central idea or message	42
5620462408	Ode	A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.	43
5620462409	Onomatopeia	Words meant to describe a sound (boom, clap, etc)	44
5620462410	Paradox	A phrase that may seem self contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.	45
5620462411	Persona		46
5620462412	Tone		47
5620462413	Voice		48
5620462414	Plot		49
5620462415	Poetic justice	Literary device in which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished.	50
5620462416	Poetic lisence	The license or liberty to deviate from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce the desired effect.	51
5620462417	Point of view		52
5620462418	Prose	Anda pal carajo u know what prose is	53
5620462419	Pun	A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings.	54
5620462420	Refrain		55
5620462421	Rhetorical figures		56
5620462422	Apostrophe	When a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem.	57
5620462423	Chiasmus	Employment of two or more clauses which are related grammatically and conceptually, but in which the grammar and concepts are reversed (inverted parallelism)	58
5620462424	Zeugma	Using one word to modify two other ones Ex: "she broke his car and his heart"	59
5620462425	Rhyme		60
5620462426	Satire		61
5620462427	Setting		62
5620462428	Soliloquy		63
5620462429	Sonnet	14 lines of Iambic pentameter with a rhyming couplet at the end. Rhyme scheme depends on whether it is Shakespearean or Petrarchan.	64
5620462430	Stanza	the equivalent of a paragraph in poetry	65
5620462431	Stock characters	is a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. Stock characters are archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness. As a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés.	66
5620462432	Stream of Consciousness	a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue	67
5620462433	Style		68
5620462434	Symbol		69
5620462435	Synesthesia		70
5620462436	Tone		71
5620462437	Wit		72