AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 7160857023 | adage (noun) | A saying/proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language. | 0 | |
| 7160857024 | Aphorism (n) | A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment. | 1 | |
| 7160857025 | Apollonian (adj) | In contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior. | 2 | |
| 7160857026 | Asyndeton (n) | Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses (as in "I came, I saw, I conquered") | 3 | |
| 7160857027 | Bildungsroman (n) | A German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal; a coming-of-age story. | 4 | |
| 7160857028 | Bathos (n) | The use of insincere or overdone sentimentality; the sudden appearance of a silly or commonplace idea ir event in a book, movie, discussion, etc., that is serious in tone. | 5 | |
| 7160857029 | Bombast (n) | Inflated, pretentious language used for trivial subjects. | 6 | |
| 7160857030 | cacophony (n) | Grating, inharmonious sounds. | 7 | |
| 7160857031 | Canto (n) | A divider in long poems, much like chapters in a novel. | 8 | |
| 7160857032 | Dionysian (adj) | As distinguished from Apollonian, the word refers to sensual, pleasure seeking impulses. | 9 | |
| 7160857033 | Doggerel (adj) | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme. | 10 | |
| 7160857034 | Epitaph (n) | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place; usually a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious, but sometimes witty and even irreverent. | 11 | |
| 7160857035 | epigram (n) | A concise but ingenious, witty and thoughtful statement. | 12 | |
| 7160857036 | Eponymous (adj) | A term for the title character of a work of literature; of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named. | 13 | |
| 7160857037 | Exegesis (n) | A detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of literature. | 14 | |
| 7160857038 | In Medias Res | Latin for "in the midst of things"; a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point. | 15 | |
| 7160857039 | archetype (n) | An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model/form. | 16 | |
| 7160857040 | Black Humor (n) | This is the use of disturbing themes in comedy .e.g. two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight. | 17 | |
| 7160857041 | Classicism (n) | Deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity and restraint. | 18 | |
| 7160857042 | Conceit (n) | A diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language; a startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines. | 19 | |
| 7160857043 | Denouement (n) | The resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work or fiction. | 20 | |
| 7160857044 | Deus Ex Machina (n) | In literature, a character or thing that suddenly enters the story in a novel, play, movie, etc., and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve. | 21 | |
| 7160857045 | harangue (n) | A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade. | 22 | |
| 7160857046 | Lampoon (n) | A satire. | 23 | |
| 7160857047 | Litotes (n) | A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity. | 24 | |
| 7160857048 | motif (n) | A phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 25 | |
| 7160857049 | Non Sequitur (n) | A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before. | 26 | |
| 7160857050 | pathetic fallacy (n) | Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects. | 27 | |
| 7160857051 | Rhetoric (n) | The language of a work and it's style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience. | 28 | |
| 7160857052 | Stock Characters (n) | Standard character types; the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc. | 29 | |
| 7160857053 | Subtext (n) | The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature. | 30 | |
| 7160857054 | Synecdoche (n) | A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part. | 31 |