AP Literature Terms Flashcards

8637308664	Allegory	Appears to be one thing but something else	0
8637308665	Ambiguity	suggesting two or more meanings in one work	1
8637308666	anecdote	short account of event	2
8637308667	Antihero/Antiheroine	A protagonist who is not admirable or who challenges notions of what should be considered admirable	3
8637308668	aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	4
8637308669	indirect characterization	we find out about characters indirectly through thoughts, comments, or actions of the characters	5
8637308670	direct characterization	Author directly describes character	6
8637308671	static character	A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end	7
8637308672	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	8
8637308673	flat character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	9
8637308674	round character	A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work	10
8637308675	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	11
8637308676	comedy	light and humorous drama with a happy ending	12
8637308677	comic relief	A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood	13
8637308678	conceit (n)	an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.	14
8637308679	Confessional Poetry	A twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.	15
8637308680	didactic poetry	poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching	16
8637308681	Epigraphs	a motto or quote at the start of a literary work	17
8637308682	Epithets	Abusive words or phrases	18
8637308683	casual relationship	when a writer asserts that one thing results from another	19
8637308684	Hypotactic	Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences	20
8637308685	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	21
8637308686	juxtaposition (n)	the act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison	22
8637308687	litnotes	understatement	23
8637308688	local color	the use of language and details that are common in a certain region of the country	24
8637308689	lyric poem	A short poem of songlike quality	25
8637308690	implied metaphor	Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly	26
8637308691	extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	27
8637308692	dead metaphor	a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid	28
8637308693	mixed metaphor	a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect	29
8637308694	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	30
8637308695	koan	a paradoxical annecdote or a riddle that has no solution	31
8637308696	periodic	describes something that occurs or repeats at regular intervals	32
8637308697	pun	a play on words	33
8637308698	satire (n)	a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision	34
8637308699	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	35
8637308700	stream of consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.	36
8637308701	tragedy (n)	a work of fiction with an unhappy ending	37
8637308702	Vernacular	Everyday language of ordinary people	38