AP Literature Terms (Term 2) Flashcards

5801333181	Point of View	the mode of the narration that an author employs to let readers "hear" & "see"	0
5801334708	First Person POV	story told by one of its characters, using 1st person "I"	1
5801337623	Third Person Objective	authors limits himself to reporting what the characters say or do, does not interpret or tell us private feelings/thoughts	2
5801339896	Third Person Omniscient	author knows all (god like) and is free to tell us anything, including what people are feeling and thinking	3
5801341260	Third Person Limited	authors limits himself to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and only tells us about what that character feels	4
5801345740	Suspension of Disbelief	demand made of an audience to provide details with their imagination; acceptance of incidents in plot by reader	5
5801347325	Symbol	anything that represents something else beyond it, usually an idea conventionally associated with it	6
5801350213	Theme	abstract idea that emerges from lit. work's treatment of it's subject matter. ex, love, war, revenge, fate	7
5801352383	Utopia	a desirable imaginary society	8
5801353977	Allusion	an indirect reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that author assumes reader will understand	9
5801355758	Anachronism	an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time	10
5801357005	Analogy	a comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar	11
5801358509	Aphorism	a terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim	12
5801359492	Apostrophe	a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead of absent person	13
5801362615	Cliche`	any expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness	14
5801363699	Epigram	any terse, witty, pt. saying (she knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.)	15
5801366729	Euphemism	substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful	16
5801368306	Figurative Language	language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc...	17
5801370662	Hyperbole	exaggeration for the sake off emphasis in figure of speech not meant literally	18
5801371145	Kenning	a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun. (whale-road for sea)	19
5801372832	Litotes	a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement	20
5801375971	Malapropism	comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning	21
5801376753	Metonymy	figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea	22
5801379437	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to (whack, crackle, etc...)	23
5801380569	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases combined in a single expression	24