AP Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

4805294569	Allegory	a story poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	0
4805294570	Alliteration	repetition of same letter or sound at beginning	1
4805294571	Allusion	expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	2
4805295485	Analogy	comparison between two things	3
4805295486	Anaphora	repetition of phrases at the beginning	4
4805305908	Anastrophe	the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.	5
4805305909	Anectode	short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.	6
4805305910	Antagonist	a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something	7
4805306805	Anticlimax	disappointing end to series of events	8
4805306806	Antihero	central character who dosent have hero characteristics	9
4805306807	Anthithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.	10
4805306808	Aphorism	if it ain't broke, don't fix it."	11
4805308663	Apostrophe	a punctuation mark ( ' )	12
4805308664	Aside	passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play	13
4805308665	Assosnance	repetition of the sound of a vowel	14
4805308708	Asydeton	absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	15
4805309726	Aubade	poem for early morning	16
4805309727	Ballad	poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	17
4805309728	Bathos	an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood	18
4805309729	Black humor	comic that makes fun of serious matters	19
4805311498	Blank verse	poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter	20
4805312886	Cacophony	disturbance of sounds	21
4805346873	Cadence	a modulation or inflection of the voic	22
4805347723	Caricature	picture and imitation of a person to create comic or grotesque	23
4805347724	Characterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	24
4805349497	Chiasmus	grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form;	25
4805349498	Colloquialism	a word or phrase that is not formal or literary	26
4805350731	Cliche	overused phrase	27
4805372723	Comedy	professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.	28
4805376772	Conceit	excessive pride	29
4805378738	Conflict	disagreement between characters, can be internal, self or external with another character	30
4805383190	Connotation	feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.	31
4805385637	Consonance	agreement between opinions or actions.	32
4805387489	Couplet	two lines of verse joined by rhyme that form a unit.	33
4805390470	Denotation	literal meaning of a word	34
4805394571	Dialect	particular form of language	35
4805395905	Diction	choice of words used	36
4805396922	Didactic	intended to teach	37
4805398772	Dirge	lament for the dead	38
4805402047	Dissonance	lack of harmony	39
4805403297	Elegy	sad poem	40
4805405271	Enjambment	continuation of sentence without pause	41
4805410572	Epic	long poems with heroic characters and adventures	42
4805412831	Epigraph	a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.	43
4805414245	Epiteth	phrase discussing quality of person mentioned	44
4805417210	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	45
4805422973	Euphemism	You aren't poor, you are economically disadvantaged.	46
4805427511	Euphony	quality of being pleasing to the ear,	47
4805430444	Explication	literary criticism	48
4805433734	Exposition	introduce background information about events, settings, characters	49
4805438202	Fable	short story containing moral	50
4805443699	Farce	joke and mockery	51
4805448966	Femminine ryme	stocking shocking, glamorous amorous	52
4805453368	Figurative language	Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, allusions, beyond literal meaning	53
4805459294	Flashback	back and set in time	54
4805472057	Foil	prevent something from succeeding	55
4805475297	Foot	measuring unit in poetry	56
4805478668	Foreshadowing	warning of future event	57
4805480516	Free verse	poetry with no rhyme or regular meter	58
4805483872	Genre	category of literature	59
4805488890	Heroic Couplet	pair of rhyming iambic pentameters	60
4805512450	Hubris	excessive pride	61
4805514851	Hyperbole	exeggaration	62
4805516036	Imagery	visually descriptive, smell, touch, sight, feel	63
4805518285	Interior monologue	piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts	64
4805521812	Internal rhyme	rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.	65
4805523095	Inversion	order of words is reversed to create emphasis on meter	66
4805527410	Irony	Dramatic audience knows character dosent, verbal what you say isn't really what you mean, situational irony, dosent seem right for the situation	67
4805539167	Juxtaposition	two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	68
4805557670	Kenning	oar-steed = ship.	69
4805559919	Litotes	You are not the worse dancer I have seen	70
4805585918	Local color	customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character.	71
4805587778	Loose sentence	I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, and shopped at the mall.	72
4805589993	Lyric Poem	emotionanal and rhyming poem	73
4805594324	Masculine rhyme	a rhyme of final stressed syllables	74
4805595643	Types of Metaphor	Mixed metaphor: Mismatched combination of metaphors. Dead metaphor - normal language, no longer recognizes as metaphor. Extended metaphor: One subject, many sub-elements. Implied- Does it without mentioning	75
4805721453	Meter	Anapestic meter - "I must finish my journey alone." Dactylic meter - three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables Iambic meter - A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	76
4806594679	Metonymy	the track for horse racing, replacing word by attributed	77
4806597881	Mood	evoking emotions or atmosphere	78
4806600512	Monologue	a long speech by one actor	79
4806601864	Motif	recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story, purpose	80
4806604092	Motivation	reasons behind character action	81
4806609797	Narrative poetry	Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story	82
4806609798	Frame narrative	serves as a companion piece to a story within a story,	83
4806612218	Nemesis	good is rewarded and bad is punished	84
4806615323	Onomatopia	BOOM	85
4806621180	Oxymoron	two words with opposing meanings are used together	86
4806626936	Parable	simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	87
4806628527	Parallel structure	using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance	88
4806634745	Parody	imitation of the style of a particular writer	89
4806636192	Pastoral Poetry	utopian idealistic view of life	90
4806641902	Pathos	appeal to emotion	91
4806641903	Periodic sentence	In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued.	92
4806646509	Persona	aspect of someones character	93
4806653010	Plot	Exposition - background info Rising action - series of events that create suspense Resolution - story is resolved Climax - highest point in development of story	94
4806661917	First person point of view	I	95
4806663287	Third person point of view	He	96
4806664149	Omniscient point of view	all seing	97
4806665381	Objective point of view	without stating more than can be infered	98
4806668983	Polysdeton	and and and	99
4806672037	Protagonist	leading character central character	100
4806674299	Pun	joke	101
4806676358	Pyrrhic meter	two unstressed syllables	102
4806679038	Quatrain	Four lines	103
4806680035	Refrain	lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas or sections of the same poem	104
4806681896	Slant Ryhme	words with similar but not identical sounds	105
4806686260	Eye Rhyme	similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation	106
4806687790	End Rhyme	ending with words that sound the same.	107
4806690972	Rhetoric	art of persuasion	108
4806692225	Rhetorical Question	Really?	109
4806693345	Horatian Satire	Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty.	110
4806696899	Juvenalian	addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule	111
4806698715	Setting	time and place in which story takes place	112
4806700411	Similie	like or as	113
4806700412	Soliloquy	speaking one's thoughts by themselves	114
4806704339	Stanza	group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem	115
4806705689	Stock character	stereotypical person who audience regonizes	116
4806707344	Style	describes the way author uses certain word choice and diction	117
4806709361	Suspense	emotion of anticipation and excitement	118
4806713110	Symbol	represents idea	119
4806714309	Synecdoche	part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	120
4806716402	Synesthesia	ideas that appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell	121
4806719087	Syntax	arrangment of words and phrases	122
4806720083	Tall Tale	unbelievable elements	123
4806724119	Theme	central topic of piece	124
4806725371	Tone	attitude of author towards subject	125
4806728145	Tragedy	character is brought to ruin, experiences tragic flaw	126
4806731525	Tragic irony	occurs when there is a greater meaning in a characters words or actions understood by the audience only	127
4806732628	Understatement	making ideas appear less important than they actually are	128
4806736464	Utopia	perfect society	129
4806739582	Vernacular	using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary cultured, or foreign language	130
4806741745	Imperssonisim	19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists Mo	131
4806744225	Modernism	origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing	132
4806746641	Naturalism	style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail	133
4806748520	Plain style	shorter sentences, concrete rather than abstract	134
4806751221	Rationalism	belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response	135
4806752951	Realism	denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life	136
4806754990	Regionaislm	fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs to specific region	137
4806757336	Romanticism	artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe	138
4806758908	Surrealism	20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind	139
4806760448	Symbolism	use of symbols to represent ideas	140
4806762359	Transcendentalism	reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality.	141