AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

8239417220	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	0
8239417221	Antihero	Protagonist of a drama or narrative who is notably lacking heroic quality	1
8239417222	Apotheosis	When a character in a piece of literature shows nonhuman abilities and appearances	2
8239417223	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	3
8239417224	Foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	4
8239417225	Inversion	A change of position, order, or relationship, of things so that they are the opposite of what they had been	5
8239417226	Protagonist	Central character or leading figure in any story	6
8239417227	Stock Characters	A dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works	7
8239417228	Batho/Patho	When an author goes into a phase in the story that is metaphors, descriptions, or ideas to show deep emotions	8
8243239227	Catharsis	A release of emotional tension	9
8243239228	Hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence	10
8243239229	Objectivity	Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts	11
8243239230	Subjectivity	based on or influenced by the authors personal feelings, tastes, or opinion	12
8243239231	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	13
8243239232	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	14
8243239233	Travesty	An absurd or inferior imitation	15
8243239234	Aesthetic	Ship to human emotion or to "reality" or "the world"	16
8243239235	Ambiguity	A word, phrase, or statement with more than one meaning	17
8260440239	Analogy	A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it	18
8260440240	Anthromorphism	attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personification)	19
8260440241	Bombast	To make something sound much more important than it is	20
8260440242	Colloquialism	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	21
8260440243	Conceit	A type of metaphor that compares 2 unlike things in a surprising and clever way	22
8260440244	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	23
8260440245	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	24
8260440246	interior monolouge	A literary technique used in poetry and prose to reveal a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings	25
8260440247	Metaphor	A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison	26
8260440248	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	27
8260440249	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	28
8260440250	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	29
8260440251	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	30
8260440252	Pun	A play on words	31
8260440253	rhetorical questions	a question that doesn't invite an actual response but just makes the audience think	32
8260440254	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	33
8260440255	disbelief	doubt about the truth of something	34
8260440256	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities	35
8260440257	Synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	36
8260440258	Synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	37
8260440259	Classic (novel)	Expresses life, truth, and/or beauty; stands the test of time; often has a universal appeal	38
8260440260	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	39
8260440261	Melodrama	A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions	40
8260440262	Prelude	An introduction	41
8260440263	Utopia	an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect	42
8260440264	Denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	43
8260440265	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	44
8260440266	Genre	a kind of literary or artistic work	45
8260440267	in medias res	in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things	46
8260440268	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	47
8260440269	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	48
8260440270	dissonance	harsh, inharmonious, or discordant words	49
8260440271	Lament	to express sorrow; to grieve	50
8260440272	Lyric	Expressing the writer's emotions in a collection of verses and choruses making a complete song or poem	51
8260440273	Masculine rhyme	A line of final stressed syllables	52
8260440274	Plaint	A formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests misfortune	53
8260440275	Pastoral (poetry)	Class of literature that represents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life	54
8260440276	Refrain	a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song	55
8260440277	Requiem	A song of prayer for the dead	56
8260440278	Rhapsody	An epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time	57
8276203362	Stanza	a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.	58
8276203363	Versification	The adaptation of verses; a particular metrical structure or style	59
8276203364	Aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	60
8276203365	Chorus (theatre)	A summary or an introduction to a story or play	61
8276203366	Aphorism	An opinion or observation being told in a witty or comprehensive way	62
8276203367	Explicit	Clear, precise, plain to see	63
8276203368	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	64
8276203369	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	65
8276203370	Voice	The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author.	66
8276203371	Loose periodic sentence	A sentence where the main clause comes at the beginning	67
8276203372	Paradigm (structure)	a widely accepted example, belief or concept.	68
8276203373	parallelism (parallel structure)	Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other	69
8276203374	Trope	A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression	70
8276203375	Zeugma	a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways	71
8777176054	Academic	Forms of expository and argumentative prose used by universities and researchers to convey info	72
8777176055	Accent	In poetry, the stressed portion of a word.	73
8777176056	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	74
8777176057	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	75
8777176058	Allusion	an indirect reference	76
8777176059	Anachronism	something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context	77
8777176060	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	78
8777176061	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	79
8777176062	Anticlimax	A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	80
8777176063	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	81
8777176064	Apostrophe	Grammatical convention used to combine 2 words into a contraction	82
8777176065	Archaism	use of an older or obsolete form	83
8777176066	Aspect	a particular part or feature of something	84
8777176067	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	85
8777176068	Atmosphere	Tone or mood of a place or situation.	86
8777176069	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	87
8777176070	Black humor	Use of disturbing themes in comedy	88
8777176071	Burlesque	Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject	89
8777176072	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	90
8777176073	Cadence	rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words	91
8777176074	Canto	Division of a long poem	92
8777176075	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	93
8777176076	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	94
8777176077	Coinage	A newly invented word or phrase	95
8777176078	Complex/dense	Uses a lot of information or complicated language	96
8777176079	Conceit	Extended metaphor	97
8777176080	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	98
8777176081	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	99
8777176082	Decorum	appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety	100
8777176083	Diction/syntax	The authors choice of words	101
8777176084	Didactic verse	A term for a poem that teaches, almost preaches	102
8777176085	Dirge	Funeral song	103
8777176086	Doggerel	Loosely structured verse of a humorous or trivial nature	104
8777176087	Dramatic monologue	Poem in the form of a speech	105
8777176088	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	106
8777176089	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	107
8777176090	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	108
8777176091	Epitaph	A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone	109
8777176092	Euphemism	Words or phrases inserted in place of other words or phrases that may be thought of as rude or impolite	110
8777176093	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	111
8777176094	Farce	a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations	112
8777176095	Feminine rhyme	Lines rhymed by their final two syllables	113
8777176096	Figurative language	Make writing more effective, persuasive, and impactful	114
8777176097	Flashback	Interruptions that consist of past events with the purpose to provide background info	115
8777176098	Foot	Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured	116
8777176099	Foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	117
8777176100	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	118
8777176101	Gothic	Style of writing categorized by fear, horror, death, and gloom	119
8777176102	Implicit	Implied though not plainly expressed	120
8777176103	Irony		121