AP Literature Flashcards

2441035806	poetry	rhythmic expression of feelings and ideas (song), may or may not rhyme	0
2441037192	prose	generally broken into fiction and nonfiction (narrative)	1
2441038622	drama	a play; intended to be acted out; written in verse or conversational style	2
2441040491	allegory	story using underlying symbols that really represent something else; may be a a character	3
2441042650	allteration	repeated use of a consonant sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words	4
2441044386	allusion	indirect reference to something or someone, usually literary	5
2441047322	anacrhonism	placing a person or an object in an appropriate historical situation, either deliberately or unintentionally	6
2441050055	analogy	comparison used to explain something	7
2441050711	anecdote	short narrative, story, or tale	8
2441052699	antagonist	major character opposing protagonist; usually the villain	9
2441053751	anthropomorphism	assigning human attributes to non human things; usually applied to animals	10
2441148992	diction	author's choice of words and sentence structure (correctness, clearness, effectiveness)	11
2441150542	levels of diction	1. formal 2. informal 3. colloquial 4. slang	12
2441152546	elegy	mournful and melancholy poem or song, usually paying tribute to a deceased person	13
2441153803	emphasis	special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out	14
2441155498	fable	story that has a moral, usually involving animals as the main characters	15
2441157460	figurative language	characterized by figures of speech (metaphors, similes); elaborate expression through imagery	16
2441159515	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration	17
2441159910	imagery	author's use of descriptive and figurative language used to create a picture in the reader's imagination	18
2441162346	indirect dialogue	language that communicates what was expressed in the dialogue, without using direct quotation	19
2441164567	irony	expression of meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning	20
2441165842	meaning	something that one wishes to convey	21
2455136504	metaphor	comparison, like a simile (doesn't use like or as); sometimes confusing because an author will include like	22
2455146704	meter	rhythm of a poem; most common is iambic (sounds like a galloping sound)	23
2455159931	narrative	literary representation of an event or story; the actual text used	24
2455176254	onomatopoeia	word intended to stimulate the actual sound of the thing or the action the thing takes	25
2455188952	oxymoron	phrase in which the words are contradictory	26
2455190935	paean	expression of joyful praise	27
2455191990	parable	story with a moral; Good Samaritan	28
2455195600	paradox	phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction	29
2455215648	parallelism	repetition of sounds, meanings, or structures to create a certain style	30
2455218892	parody	literary work in which the style of an author is imitated for comic effect or ridicule	31
2455223950	pastoral	work that deals with the lives of people, especially shepherds, in the country or in nature (as opposed to the city)	32
2455232279	pathos	something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy; a pathetic person adds feelings to the story	33
2455237812	personification	assigning human attributes to something nonhuman	34
2455242246	perspective	viewpoint from which the narrator or character sees things	35
2455274017	point of view	vantage point from which a story is presented to a reader; most common: first and third person	36
2455290307	protagonist	main character of a story; usually the hero	37
2455295309	rhyme scheme	way a poem's rhymes are arranged; think of a sonnet, for example	38
2455302491	satire	ridicule of a subject; often humorous and intended to point out something about a serious subject	39
2455309851	simile	comparison of two things using "like" and "as"; used in poetry to evoke an idea through an image	40
2455314820	stanza	divisions in a poem (like a paragraph in prose)	41
2455317654	structure	framework of a work of literature; organization or overall design; provides clues to character and action	42
2455325291	style	author's unique manner of expression; the author's voice	43
2455329544	syntax	ordering of words into meaningful patterns (phrases, clauses, and sentences); poets manipulate syntax changing traditional word order in an attempt to draw attention to particular words or phrases	44
2455337450	theme	central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work; provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements are organized	45
2455344311	tone	style or manner of expression	46