AP Literature Terms, Eras, and Works Flashcards

6201791559	allegory	a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself	0
6201791560	alliteration	a recurrence of initial consonant sounds	1
6201792990	allusion	a casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event	2
6201792991	ambiguity	the quality of having more than one meaning	3
6201794381	anaphora	the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences	4
6201794382	antithesis	establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure	5
6201796039	apostrophe	the direct address of a person or personified thing, usually absent	6
6201796040	assonance	the use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words	7
6201796041	canon	in relation to literature, this term is applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones	8
6201796042	conceit	an elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image	9
6201797357	diction	the author's choice of words	10
6201797358	enjambment	the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break	11
6201797359	euphemism	the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one	12
6201798526	flashback	a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction	13
6201798527	frame	a narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel	14
6201798528	hyperbole	exaggeration used for emphasis	15
6201798529	imagery	the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses	16
6201800015	invective	speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against	17
6201800016	irony	conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation	18
6201800017	metaphor	a comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing	19
6201801150	metonymy	a closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind	20
6201801151	novella	a prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel	21
6201801152	oxymoron	a paradox reduced to two words	22
6201801153	parody	a satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work	23
6201802233	persona	the person created by the author to tell the story	24
6201802234	personification	the metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes	25
6201802235	rhetoric	the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	26
6201803681	satire	a manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions	27
6201803682	stanza	a group of lines within a poem, demarcated by a blank line	28
6201803683	symbol	a closely associated object is substituted for the object or idea in mind	29
6201803684	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole	30
6201805537	syntax	the organization of words in a sentence	31
6201805538	thesis	the main idea or statement that a writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend	32
6201805539	tone	the writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject	33
6201805540	understatement	expressing an idea with less emphasis or in a lesser degree than is the actual case	34
6201807528	versimilitude	the semblance to truth or actuality in characters or events that a novel or other fictional work possesses	35
6201807529	dramatic irony	when the audience or reader is aware of key elements that characters in the story are not aware of	36
6201807530	dichotomy	a character feels two equally important but opposing feelings toward an event, action, or person	37
6201809092	Old English era	450-1066, alliterative verses, oral tradition, Beowulf	38
6201809093	Middle English era	1066-1500, didactic, chivalry, religious, Chaucer	39
6201810079	Renaissance	1500-1660, new discoveries, science, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marlow	40
6201810080	Romanticism	1798-1837, nature, imagination, individualism, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Hawthorne, Whitman	41
6201811920	Edwardian era	1901-1915, imperialism, colonialism, class distinctions, Conrad, Barrie, Wells	42
6201811921	Victorian era	1837 - 1901, difficult lives, moral lesson, Hardy, George Elliot, Dickens, Carroll	43
6201811922	Modern era	1914 - 1945, war, alienation, T.S. Eliot, Wolf, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck	44
6201813592	Post-modern era	1945-2000, irony, satire, paradox, Miller, Vonnegut	45
6201813594	John Milton	Paradise Lost	46
6201816402	Robert Browning	My Last Duchess	47
6201816403	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	48
6201816404	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	49
6201818517	Oscar Wilde	Importance of Being Earnest	50
6201821833	John Steinbeck	Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men	51
6201821834	William Faulkner	A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning	52
6201884900	18th Century	1700-1799, political, reason, Swift, Voltaire	53
6201916491	Shakespeare	The Tempest, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet	54
6201919642	Marlow, narrator	Heart of Darkness	55
6201921870	Kurtz	Heart of Darkness	56
6201923341	Congo	Heart of Darkness	57
6201925131	Accountant, Station Manager	Heart of Darkness	58
6201927485	Savagery of colonialism	Heart of Darkness	59
6201927486	Victor	Frankenstein	60
6201929399	Creation	Frankenstein	61
6201931731	Arctic and Europe	Frankenstein	62
6201931732	Elizabeth	Frankenstein	63
6201935351	Need to accept responsibility	Frankenstein	64
6201935352	Prospero	Tempest	65
6201937566	Miranda	Tempest	66
6201937567	Caliban	Tempest	67
6201939233	Value of mercy	Tempest	68
6201944647	Explain God's actions to man	Paradise Lost	69
6201947141	Comedy of multiple identities	Importance of Being Earnest	70
6201961986	Arrogant, controlling duke	My Last Duchess	71
6201964466	Crucible	Arthur Miller	72
6201964467	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	73
6201967015	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	74
6201967016	Scarlett Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	75
6201989879	John Donne	Holy Sonnet 10, Valedictory Forbidding Mourning, No Man is an Island	76
6201998440	Valedictory Forbidding Mourning	conceit	77
6201998441	My Last Duchess	dramatic monologue	78
6202002070	dramatic monologue	a poem where a speaker speaks to an unseen but clearly present audience at a critical moment in his or her life	79
6202017774	epistolary	told in letter form	80
6202019451	frame novels	Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness	81
6202021071	bildingsroman novel	coming of age story	82
6202051695	homily	a speech that focuses on religious or spiritual enlightenment	83
6202057039	connotation	the mood associated with a word	84