essential terms ap english literature with examples Flashcards
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| 5990065527 | connotation | the emotional and cultural meanings of a word ("Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"-- torch = a thing that gives heat AND a hot girl who lights up the room) | 0 | |
| 5990065528 | metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitution ("Death is the broom/I take it in my hands/To sweep the world clean") | 1 | |
| 5990065529 | simile | a direct comparison of two unlike objects using "like" or "as" ("The holy time is quiet as a nun") | 2 | |
| 5990065530 | personification | non-humans have human qualities ("When it comes, the landscape listens/Shadows hold their breath") | 3 | |
| 5990065531 | apostrophe | direct address to a person or personification not present ("Oh Death, where is thy sting?") | 4 | |
| 5990065532 | metonymy | substitution of a part for the whole or something related for the thing itself ("Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears") | 5 | |
| 5990065533 | verbal irony | a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant | 6 | |
| 5990065534 | dramatic irony | a discrepancy between what the character says and the author means | 7 | |
| 5990065535 | situational irony | a discrepancy between what should happen and what does happen | 8 | |
| 5990065536 | allusion | common cultural reference ("Abraham to hill him/Was distinctly told") | 9 | |
| 5990065537 | imagery | a sensory description ("Then a mile of warm sea scented beach") | 10 | |
| 5990065538 | symbolism | the use of one object to suggest itself and other ideas ("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I-/I took the one less traveled by") | 11 | |
| 5990065539 | allegory | a story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside of the story itself (Native American Legends) | 12 | |
| 5990065540 | caricature | a portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality | 13 | |
| 5990065541 | conceit | unusual metaphor developed and expanded over several lines | 14 | |
| 5990065542 | controlling image | an image that dominates/shapes the entire work | 15 | |
| 5990065543 | couplet | a pair of lines that rhyme | 16 | |
| 5990065544 | diction | word choice | 17 | |
| 5990065545 | enjambment | continuation of one line to the next with no pause/punctuation ("But at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near") | 18 | |
| 5990065546 | objectivity | impersonal/outside view of events | 19 | |
| 5990065547 | subjectivity | interior/personal view of a single observer. emotionally involved | 20 | |
| 5990065548 | opposition | a pair of elements that contrast sharply | 21 | |
| 5990065549 | paradox | situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not | 22 | |
| 5990065550 | satire | exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor | 23 | |
| 5990065551 | theme | the main idea of the overall work | 24 | |
| 5990065552 | omniscient narrator | 3rd person, sees into the character's mind, understands everything | 25 | |
| 5990065553 | limited omniscient narrator | 3rd person, sees what only one person sees | 26 | |
| 5990065554 | objective narrator | 3rd person, sees what a movie would show you | 27 | |
| 5990065555 | first-person narrator | the character who tells the story from their point of view | 28 | |
| 5990065556 | stream of consciousness | reader inside the character's head | 29 | |
| 7724528538 | end stop | A definite halt or full stop at the end of a line | 30 |