AP Literature Flashcards

7227529074	Accent	Refers to the stressed portion of a word	0
7227529395	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	1
7227530027	Anachronism	Derived from Greek, meaning "misplaced in time."	2
7227530765	antecedent	Word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces. "The principal asked the children where they were going." "They" is the pronoun and "children" is the antecedent.	3
7227531644	anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomenons are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation.	4
7227534661	anticlimax	When the action produces a far smaller result than one had been led to expect	5
7227534964	aphorism	A short and usually witty saying	6
7227535224	apostrophe	an address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea	7
7227539435	archaism	The deliberate use of old-fashioned language	8
7227539663	aside	a speech made by an actor to the audience	9
7227540482	assonance	repeated use of vowel sounds	10
7227543653	ballad	a long, narrative poem usually in a very regular meter and rhyme. Usually has a naive folksy quality	11
7227545894	black humor	Use of disturbing themes in comedy	12
7227546006	bombast	this is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	13
7227546798	burlesque	Is broad parody, one that takes the form such as a tragic drama and exaggerates it into ridiculousness	14
7227547584	cacophony	in poetry, it is the deliberate use of harsh, awkward sounds	15
7227548331	cadence	the beat of rhythm of poetry in a general sense, such as iambic pentameter	16
7227549166	canto	the name for a section division in a long work of poetry	17
7227549707	caricature	a verbal portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality	18
7227551793	catharsis	refers to the cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences having lived through the experiences presented on stage	19
7227553761	coinage (neologism)	It is a new word, usually one invented on the spot.	20
7227553992	colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational english that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" english	21
7227557731	conceit / controlling image	Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or one developed and expanded upon over several lines	22
7227558239	connotation/denotation	everything that a word suggests or implies	23
7227558984	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds within words	24
7227559271	decorum	a characters speech must be styled according to her social station and in accordance with the occasion.	25
7227560357	dirge	a song for the dead	26
7227560623	dissonance	the grating of incompatible sounds	27
7227561629	doggerel	crude, simplistic verse, often in a sing-song rhyme	28
7227561912	elegy	a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner	29
7227562648	epic	simply a very long narrative poem on a serious them and in a dignified style.	30
7227563289	epitaph	lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place	31
7227564002	euphemism	a word of phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality	32
7227564697	farce	Today it refers to extremely broad humor. In earlier times it was more neutral term, meaning simply a funny place	33
7227565639	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	34
7227565892	foil	a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the main character	35
7227566607	foot	the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry	36
7227568633	hubris	the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	37
7227570688	interior monologue	Refers to the writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a characters head	38