AP Literature 2 Flashcards

7847895161	Allegory	A story with two levels of meaning. The surface story and the symbolic level.	0
7847904018	Alliteration	When two or more words in a phrase have the same beginning sound	1
7847914292	Allusion	Refers to a well known story, event, or person to make a comparison	2
7847952964	ambiguity	A word, phrase, or statement that has more than one meaning. can lead to vagueness or confusion	3
7847956186	anthropomorphism	Giving human traits, behaviors, ambitions, and/or emotions to something non-human	4
7847959586	assonance	The repetition of a vowel sound	5
7847963992	ballad	A poetic narrative that usually follows an ABAB rhyme scheme	6
7847970028	catharsis	An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of renewal or liberation	7
7847977184	conceit	A type of metaphor that compares two very different things in a clever way	8
7847980265	consonance	Repetitive sounds made by consonants in a phrase	9
7847985395	didactic	A type of writing that aims to teach us something	10
7848014675	dramatic convention	A set of rules that both the audience and the actors are familiar with and acts as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action of a character	11
7848022206	dramatic irony	Irony expressed through a works structure	12
7848027810	elegy	A poem of song in the form of "elegiac" couplets, written in the honor of someone that has died	13
7848043625	end rhyme	When a poem that has lines that end in words that rhyme	14
7848048623	end-stopped line	When a line in poetry ends with a definite punctuation mark	15
7848062537	euphony	"euphonos" means sweet-voiced. The use of melody or "loveliness" in the manner of speech	16
7848085499	farce	Type of comedy that uses exaggeration and funny situations	17
7848105023	hyperbole	An extreme exaggeration to make a point	18
7848111426	irony of situation	Irony involving a situation where actions have the opposite of the intended effect	19
7848238891	litotes	A figure of speech that uses understatement via double negatives	20
7848303264	metaphor	Like a simile but without using like or as	21
7848308273	metonymy	A figure of speech where yo replace the name of a thing with that of something that is closely related	22
7848312892	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates a sound	23
7848315455	oxymoron	Two contradictory words being used together (cold sweat)	24
7848318609	paradox	A statement that contradicts itself, but still seems to be true	25
7848326128	parody	Imitating someone or something else in a way that makes fun of it/them	26
7848329680	personification	Giving an object or creature human characteristics	27
7848336208	phonetic intensive	A word whose sound somewhat suggests its meaning, but does not explicitly refer to sounds	28
7848339586	prose	A form of language without a formal metrical structure	29
7848358329	protagonist	The main character of a story	30
7848361063	refrain	A phrase or verse that recurs repeatedly throughout a passage	31
7848369237	run-on line	A phrase, clause, or thought that does not finish at the line break	32
7848386519	satire	using humor, irony, exaggeration and/or ridicule to expose a fault in someone/something	33
7848395804	simile	Compares two things, similar to a metaphor, but uses "like" or "as" so it is a direct comparison	34
7848400344	sustained figure (extended metaphor)	A story that as a whole is actually a metaphor that is symbolizing a concept	35
7848416548	symbol	Usually an object of some form that stands for a greater idea or concept	36
7848421657	synecdoche	When you use something to represent a whole, or to represent a piece of the whole	37
7848439615	theme	The underlying meaning or central idea of a work	38
7848442470	tone	The manner of speaking or attitude of the writer toward a subject or to the audience	39
7848445851	understatement	To make a situation seem less important than it actually is	40
7848449691	verbal irony	When someone says the opposite of what they actually mean. Usually sarcastic	41