AP Lit Vocabulary Words 1-50 Flashcards

7764001371	Aesthetic	pertaining to beauty	0
7764011683	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	1
7764015346	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	2
7764019251	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	3
7764023404	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	4
7764026506	Anecdote	A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.	5
7764034372	Aside	A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	6
7764038505	Atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene.	7
7764045754	Cadence	Rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words	8
7764051280	Catharsis	Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play	9
7764061458	Colloquialism	A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English.	10
7764067972	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	11
7764071695	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	12
7764071696	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	13
7764073479	Diction	word choice	14
7764073480	Dramatic Monologue	a long speech or poem in which one person speaks reflecting on a problem or situation.	15
7764081743	Enjambment	The continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line.	16
7764086744	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	17
7764086745	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	18
7764086746	Foil	to thwart, frustrate, defeat	19
7764092055	Foreshadowing	suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative	20
7764092056	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	21
7764093582	Genre	Type of literature	22
7764093583	Hubris	Excessive pride	23
7764101424	Hyperbole	An exaggeration	24
7764101425	Irony	the opposite of what one expects	25
7764103966	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	26
7764103967	Objectivity	neutral, fact-based approach	27
7764113332	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	28
7764113333	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	29
7764115705	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	30
7764115706	Paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	31
7764124998	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	32
7764124999	Parody	a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	33
7764126413	Pastoral	Having to do with the country	34
7764133064	Persona	An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.	35
7764133065	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	36
7764135494	Point of View	The perspective from which a story is told	37
7764135495	Protagonist	Main character	38
7764137566	Pun	A play on words	39
7764147803	Satire	A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness	40
7764147804	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	41
7764150401	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	42
7764155403	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	43
7764155404	Subjectivity	Expressions of the individuality and personal experiences and perceptions of an artist	44
7764166143	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	45
7764166144	Syntax	Sentence structure	46
7764168084	Tragic Flaw	A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.	47
7764168085	Unreliable narrator	an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story	48
7764169571	Utopia	an ideal society	49