AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6264615190	Allusion	A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work.	0
6264623211	Attitude	The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author or character	1
6264674130	Details	Individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.	2
6264681340	Devices of Sound	Techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry.	3
6264685758	Diction	Word choice.	4
6284552258	figurative language	Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and imagery	5
6284563219	imagery	The images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work	6
6284567377	irony	A figure of speech in which the intended meaning an actual meaning differ	7
6284573153	metaphor	Uses language to compare things or ideas without uses "like" or "as"	8
6284578685	narrative techniques	The methods involved in telling a story	9
6284583336	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
6284590179	point of view	Any of the several possible vantage points from which a story is told	11
6284592289	resources of language	A general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use	12
6284601545	rhetorical techniques	The devices used in effective or persuasive language	13
6284604198	satire	Writing that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject	14
6284610012	setting	The background of a story	15
6284612823	simile	A directly expressed comparison of an idea or thing in a story or play using the words "like" or "as"	16
6284622789	strategy	The management of language for a specific effect	17
6284625884	structure	The arrangement of materials within a work	18
6284629080	style	The mode of expression in language, the artistic manner of expression of an author	19
6284635694	symbol	Something that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else	20
6284646043	syntax	The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence	21
6284649977	theme	The main thought expressed by a work	22
6284652357	tone	the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude.	23
6284657613	allegory	A story in which the people, things, and events have another meaning	24
6284662587	ambiguity	Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate	25
6284666616	apostrophe	Direct address, usually to someone or something that isn't present	26
6284670502	connotation	The implications of a word or phrase or the emotions associated with it	27
6284675184	convention	A device of style or subject matter that is used so often that it becomes a recognized means of expression	28
6284684323	denotation	The specific, literal meaning of a word	29
6299185412	didactic	Explicitly instructive	30
6299197176	digression	The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work.	31
6299221393	epigram	A pithy saying, often employing contrast.	32
6299226147	euphemism	A figure of speech utilizing indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.	33
6299239400	grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities.	34
6299326668	hyperbole	Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement.	35
6299329841	jargon	The specialized language of a profession or group	36
6299335019	literal	The precise, explicit meaning	37
6299337674	lyrical	Songlike; characterized by emotion	38
6299342586	oxymoron	A combination or juxtaposition of opposites; a union of contradictory terms	39
6299348762	parable	A story designed to suggest a principle	40
6299352887	paradox	A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but it is, in fact, true	41
6299367700	parody	A composition that imitates the style of another's composition	42
6299373783	personification	A figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics	43
6299429352	reliability	A quality of some fictional narrators in whose word the reader can place in his trust	44
6299433925	rhetorical question	A question asked for effect, not in expectation for reply	45
6299440329	soliloquy	A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud	46
6299445531	stereotype	A conventional pattern, expression, character or idea	47
6299451181	syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them	48
6299483591	alliteration	The repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds	49
6299489380	assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	50
6299493525	ballad meter	A four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet	51
6299509371	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	52
6299514147	dactyl	A metrical foot of three syllables	53
6299516724	end-stopped	A line with a pause at the end	54
6299532440	free verse	Poetry that is not written in the traditional meter but still rhymes	55
6299539202	heroic couplet	Two end-stopped iambi pentameter lines rhymed with aa, bb, cc	56
6299543791	hexameter	A line containing six feet	57
6299546124	iamb	A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable	58
6299551800	internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	59
6299559177	onomatopoeia	The use of words whose very sound suggests the actual meaning	60
6299578484	pentameter	A line containing five feet	61
6299588035	rhyme royal	A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc	62
6299599794	sonnet	A poem written in iambic pentameter, normally composed of fourteen lines	63
6299605800	stanza	A repeated grouping of three or more lines	64
6299614604	terza rima	A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc	65
6299616643	tetrameter	A line of four feet	66
6299619756	antecedent	That which has gone before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.	67
6299628007	clause	A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not form a complete sentence	68
6299631897	ellipsis	A phrase that omits some words that would be necessary for a complete construction, yet which is still understandable.	69
6299642371	imperative	The mood of a verb that gives an order	70
6299643724	modify	To restrict or limit in meaning	71
6299646638	parallel structure	A similar grammatical structure withing a sentence or within a paragraph	72
6299650793	periodic sentence	A sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end	73
6299653925	Syntax	The structure of a sentence	74