AP Literature Flashcards

5836951180	Diction	style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.	0
5836953064	Syntax	a system or orderly arrangement of words.	1
5836953065	Tone	attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.	2
5836953066	Imagery	figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.	3
5836953660	Figurative Langauge	language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.	4
5836953661	Point of View	the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.	5
5836953662	Detail	details that the author reveals for the purpose of adding to the desired dominant impression.	6
5836954618	Pacing	shows how fast a story unfolds.	7
5836954619	Shift	change in mood or attitude that is typically accompanied by a corresponding change in the focus and language of a literary scene, passage or theme.	8
5836954941	Connotation	meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.	9
5836954942	Denotation	literal or dictionary meanings of a word	10
5836954943	Theme	main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work	11
5836954944	Allegory	when the characters, images, and/or events act as symbols.	12
5836954945	Allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.	13
5836955186	Alliteration	the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.	14
5836955187	Ambiguity	a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning.	15
5836955368	Antagonist	a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist	16
5836955369	Apostophe	when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party.	17
5836955370	Analogy	a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.	18
5836955570	Anecdote	a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point	19
5836955571	Aside	happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.	20
5836955572	Assonance	repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words.	21
5836955930	Atmosphere	refers to the feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects.	22
5836955931	Attitude	a behavior a person adopts toward other people, things, incidents or happenings.	23
5836956303	Bildungsroman	a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood	24
5836956304	Cacophany	a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds.	25
5836956305	Characterization	used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.	26
5836956522	Caesura	a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence.	27
5836956523	Climax	the particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.	28
5836956958	Colloquialism	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.	29
5836956959	Conceit	a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way.	30
5836957321	Conflict	any struggle between opposing forces.	31
5836957693	Consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. (pitter, patter...)	32
5836957694	Enjambment	moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark.	33
5836957695	Epiphany	the moment in the story where a character achieves some realization.	34
5836958071	Euphony	the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create.	35
5836958072	Flashback	an interruption of the chronological sequence	36
5836958073	Foil	a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.	37
5836958601	Foreshadowing	a hint of what is to come later in the story.	38
5836958602	Genre	a category of literary composition.	39
5836958603	Hyperbole	a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.	40
5836959159	Irony	a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated.	41
5836959160	Juxtaposition	when two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.	42
5836959161	Litotes	a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions.	43
5836959594	Metaphor	a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.	44
5836960080	Metonymy	a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.	45
5836960081	Mood	evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.	46
5836960082	Motif	an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme.	47
5836960083	Objective	the goal or mission of an individual.	48
5836960452	Onomatopoeia	a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.	49
5836960453	Omniscient	technique of writing narrative in third person in which a narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story.	50
5836960923	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.	51