AP Language lit terms Flashcards

7622633178	Allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known	0
8063127615	Allegory	Device using character and/ or story elements symbolically to represent an abstract and literal meaning	1
8063137324	Ambiguity	multiple meaning, intentional/ unintentional, word phrase sentence or passage	2
8063170494	analogy	A similarity or comparison between 2 things	3
8063174275	Anecdote	brief story used to illustrate an idea or make a point	4
8063183834	antecedent	word phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun (it)	5
8063193495	antithesis	opposite or contrast of ideas-direct opposite	6
8063197396	aphorism	a tense statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle	7
8063219638	Apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person of personified principle	8
8063242918	atmosphere	emotional background created by the entirety of a literary work, established by setting, choice of objects described	9
8063251012	Bathos	insincere/ overdone sentimentality	10
8063256915	Bombast	Inflated, pretentious language	11
8063267280	caricature	verbal description, exaggerate or distort for comic effect	12
8063272071	circumlocution	speech that avoids direct reflection to the subject	13
8063276144	clause	the grammatical unit contains subject and verb- independent, main expresses complete thought, can stand alone	14
8063306117	climax	high point, turning point	15
8063311615	colloquial/ colloquialism	use of slang or informalities	16
8063314793	conceit	fanciful expression- extended metaphor	17
8063322665	concrete detail	highly specific detail, tangible detail	18
8063329160	connotation	non-literal meaning, associative meaning	19
8063333521	deductive reasoning	method of reasoning by which conclusions are drawn from general principals	20
8063341291	denotation	strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of emotion or color	21
8063348347	diction	writers word choice	22
8063351279	didactic	using words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing	23
8063356694	digression	a portion of discourse or narrative that departs from main subject	24
8063363293	elliptical construction	omitting a word or phrase used to describe a person	25
8063371427	euphemism	more agreeable or less offensive substitute for unpleasant word	26
8063401216	extended metaphor	developed at great length, occuring frequently	27
8063410895	figurative language	writing or speech not to carry literal meaning	28
8063416403	genre	major category which a literary work fits best-prose (fiction/ non-fiction), poetry, drama	29
8063425354	harangue	forceful sermon or lecture	30
8063428719	homily	sermon on moral theme	31
8063431851	Hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	32
8063436233	imagery	sensory details- arouse emotion or represent abstractions- visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory	33
8063446733	inductive reasoning	specific facts used to make generalization	34
8063456469	infrence/ infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion based on the info presented	35
8063471527	invective	emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack with strong, abusive language.	36
8063480873	Irony/ ironic	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant	37
8063487392	verbal irony	when the words literally state the opposite of writers meaning	38
8063491066	situational irony	events turn out opposite of what was expected	39
8063495239	dramatic irony	facts or events are unknown to the character but known to the reader or other characters	40
8063501697	litotes	understatement which uses negative to affirm positive	41
8063519213	loose sentence	where main idea is presented first and other follow	42
8063526077	malapropism	confused use of words, appropriate word replaced by one that sounds the same	43
8063536398	metaphor	a figure of speech used to imply comparison of unlike things	44
8063541299	mood	emotional amtompshere in a work	45
8063544507	motif	unifying phrase presented throughout an entire work	46
8063547781	myth	a story that has become an accepted part of the culture often an allusion	47
8063555967	onomatopoeia	figure of speech in which natural sounds are limited in the sounds of words	48
8063559866	oxymoron	figure of speech wherein the author groups- contradictory terms	49
8063565920	paradox	a self-contradictory statement or opposed to common sense	50
8063572220	parallelism	structural similarity in writing	51
8063587716	anaphora parallelism	exact repetition of words or phrases beginning	52
8063599338	isocolon parallelism	series of clauses of same length	53
8063601972	chiasmos parallelism	two clauses related by reversal of structure	54
8063606519	parody	work closely imitates style or content of another ex: SNL	55
8063612247	pastoral	a work or literature dealing with rural life	56
8063617329	pedantic	an adjective describes words, phrases or general tone- overly scholarly	57
8063622302	periodic sentence	the sentence that presents its central meaning in the main clause	58
8063629654	personification	giving objects human- like attributes	59
8063632883	point of view	perspective in which story is told	60
8063636935	first person point of view	I, character in the story	61
8063639934	omniscient third person point of view	he, she, it, narrator in the story- inside heads	62
8063655716	limited third person point of view	presented thoughts by narrator- actions	63
8063658953	objective third person point of view	present thoughts and feeling- no character, narrator not in the head	64
8063664604	second person point of view	you	65
8063667396	polysydeton	using many coordinating conjunctions in a sentence- and	66
8063681087	pun	humorous play on words using similar sounds words to suggest different meanings	67