AP Literature Flashcards

9615000308	accent	stressed portion of words	0
9615000894	anachronism	a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned	1
9615003143	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces	2
9615004679	anthropomorphism	inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation	3
9615007404	anticlimax	an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect	4
9615010228	aphorism	short and witty saying	5
9615014270	assonance	repeated use of vowel sounds	6
9615014271	bathos	when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup	7
9615017106	bombast	pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	8
9615018724	burlesque	broad parody, one that takes a style or a form such a tragic drama and exaggerates it into ridiculousness	9
9615021559	cacophony	using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds	10
9615022335	canto	the name for a section division in a long work on poetry	11
9615023035	coinage/neologism	new word, invented on the spot	12
9615025291	decorum	when a character's speech is style according to their social standing and in accordance with the occasion	13
9615026646	dirge	a song for the dead	14
9615027168	doggerel	crude, simplistic verse	15
9615027882	elegy	type of poem that meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful maner	16
9615028719	epitaph	lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place	17
9615029229	farce	something funny	18
9615030095	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	19
9615030817	foil	a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character	20
9615032248	in medias res	in the midst of things	21
9615032955	inversion	switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase	22
9615034879	lament	poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	23
9615035883	loose and periodic sentences	loose sentence = complete before its end periodic sentence = not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase	24
9615038744	masculine rhyme	a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	25
9615040736	metonym	a word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with	26
9615043217	plaint	a poem or speech expressing sorrow	27
9615044010	requiem	a song of prayer for the dead	28
9615045240	suspension of disbelief	accept the limitations of staging and supply the deals with imagination	29
9615047538	syncope	contracting words by removing internal sounds, syllables, or letters and inserting an apostrophe	30
9615049923	traversty	distortion, corruption, or terribly false representation of something	31
9615052333	truism	a way too obvious truth	32
9615053645	verisimilitude	appearance of being real or true	33
9615053646	zeugma	the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings	34