AP LITERATURE VOCAB Flashcards

7206409697	Persona		0
7206400337	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	1
7206403271	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	2
7206403272	Motif	a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition	3
7206408643	Paradox		4
7206404843	Narrator	Person telling the story	5
7206404844	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	6
7206408225	Oxymoron		7
7206409146	Parallelism		8
7206409147	Parody		9
7206409698	Personification		10
7206410255	Plot		11
7206410256	Point of View		12
7206411207	Prosody		13
7206411675	Protagonist		14
7206412639	Pun		15
7206416121	Rhyme Scheme		16
7206416351	Satire		17
7206416352	Sestina		18
7206418311	Setting		19
7206419289	Simile		20
7206419703	Soliloquy		21
7206420457	Sonnet		22
7206420750	Stream of Consciousness		23
7206421494	Subtext	The hidden or underlying meaning of something	24
7206421495	Symbol	Anything that stands for or represents something else	25
7206423712	Synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	26
7206424168	Symbol	Anything that stands for or represents something else	27
7206424432	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	28
7206426702	Theme		29
7206427823	Thesis	a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.	30
7206428441	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	31
7206429970	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	32
7206430144	Unreliable narrator	a narrator who misinterprets the story due to prejudice, madness, etc.	33
7206430151	Vignette		34
7206430800	Villanelle	A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition	35
7206431219	Wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	36