AP Literature Vocab Terms Flashcards

8279116269	Free Indirect Discourse	A special type of third-person narration that slips in and out of the character's consciousness. The character's thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through narrator.	0
8279163467	Antihero	A protagonist in a drama or narrative who is notably lacking heroic qualities.	1
8279188630	Foil	A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.	2
8279223692	Stock Character	A conventional character that is instantly recognizable due to familiar stereotypes. Ex: Evil Stepmothers, Tortured artists, etc.	3
8279271083	Allegory	A story with a hidden meaning that is given by literary devices such as symbolism and metaphors.	4
8280018772	Bildungsroman	A coming-of-age story. Ex: "Grendel", "Catcher in the Rye"	5
8280018773	Comedy	A genre that deals in humor and entertainment.	6
8280021915	Epic	Story about larger-than-life heroes and their triumphs on and off the battlefield. Typically involve supernatural or mystic elements such as Gods. Use of "invocation of the muse."	7
8280021916	Farce	A type of Comedy that makes use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience. Use bawdy jokes, physical humor, and deliberate absurdity.	8
8280024645	Free Verse Poetry	A poetic style that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme.	9
8280024646	Lyric Poem	Type of poetry usually written in first-person POV in order to convey the speaker's thoughts and emotions. Include Odes and Sonnets	10
8280027989	Parody	A text that imitates another work or genre for the sole purpose of humor.	11
8280032207	Romantic Movement	Use of untamed emotion in a work of literature, Commonly used Nature, with the N capitalized to show emphasis and personification.	12
8280032208	Satire	A genre that sets out to improve bad behavior with the use of sarcasm and irony. Typically humorous.	13
8280039256	Stream-Of-Consciousness	A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters.	14
8280039257	Tragedy	A kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner.	15
8280043997	Anaphora	The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.	16
8280043998	Antithesis	A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.	17
8280047319	Apostrophe	A writer or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech.	18
8280056478	Cliche	An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty.	19
8280061546	Epithet	A descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are	20
8280061547	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.	21
8280064803	Understatement	A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.	22
8280064804	Enjambment	In poetry, the running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a major pause or syntactical break.	23
8280068069	Caesura	A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end.	24
8280068070	Conceit Metaphor	A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors.	25
8280072211	Dead Metaphor	A figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use.	26
8280076830	Mixed Metaphor	A succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons.	27
8280076831	Metonymy	A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.	28
8280081569	Synecdoche	A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.	29
8280085181	Synesthesia	A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time.	30
8280090122	Anthropomorphism	A literary device that can be defined as a technique in which a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects.	31
8280105241	Imagery	To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.	32
8280105242	Visual Imagery	Imagery that appeals to the visual senses.	33
8280108696	Auditory Imagery	Imagery that appeals to the sound senses.	34
8280113053	Kinesthetic IImagery	Imagery that appeals to the touch senses.	35
8280113054	Olfactory Imagery	Imagery that appeals to the smell senses.	36
8280120904	Gustatory Imagery	Imagery that appeals to the taste senses.	37