AP Flashcards

5713771184	active voice	the subject of the sentence performs the action	0
5713815359	allusion	an indirect reference to something the readers are supposed to know	1
5713822800	alter ego	a character that is used by the author to speak the authors own thoughts	2
5713838858	anecdote	brief recounting of a relevant episode	3
5713842934	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	4
5713858773	classicism	art or literature characterized by a realist view of people in the world; it sticks to traditional themes or structures	5
5713883622	comic relief	when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story	6
5713903505	diction	word choice	7
5713906802	colloquial	ordinary or familiar type of conversation	8
5713915128	jargon	the diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity	9
5713929572	connotation	implied meaning, rather than literal meaning	10
5713934710	denotation	the literal meaning	11
5713939501	vernacular	language or dialect of a particular country, group, or clan	12
5713951692	didactic	a term used to describe fiction, non-fiction, or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral, or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking	13
5713971752	adage	a folk saying with a lesson	14
5713976700	allegory	a story in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts	15
5713986066	aphorism	a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle	16
5713999119	ellipsis	the deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author	17
5714030173	euphemism	a more agreeable, or less offensive, substitute for generally unpleasant words	18
5714045417	figurative language	writing that is not meant to be taken literally	19
5714048925	analogy	a comparison to one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables	20
5714059776	hyperbole	exaggeration	21
5714064422	idiom	a common, often used expression that does not make sense if you take it literally	22
5714073761	metaphor	making an implied comparison, not using 'like' or 'as'	23
5714090062	metonymy	replacing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept	24
5714103428	synectoche	a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice-versa	25
5714143660	simile	a direct comparison using 'like' or 'as'	26
5714151901	synesthesia	a description involving the crossing of the senses	27
5714164970	personification	giving human like qualities to something that is not human	28
5714174021	foreshadowing	when an author gives hints about what will occur later in the story	29
5714184092	genre	the major category into which a literary work fits	30
5714193353	gothic	writing that is characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and or death	31
5714203597	imagery	word or word that create a picture in the reader's mind	32
5714211311	invective	a long emotionally violent attack, using string abusive language	33
5714232665	irony	when the opposite of what you expect to happen does	34
5714240937	verbal irony	when you say something and mean the opposite	35
5714243887	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something that the character does not and would be surprised to find out	36
5714254890	situational irony	found in the plot or story line of a book, story, or movie	37
5714265968	juxtaposition	placing things side by side with the purpose of comparison	38
5714273433	mood	the atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished by word choice	39
5714283042	motif	a recurring theme or idea	40
5714290379	oxymoron	when apparently contradictory terms are paired together and suggest a paradox	41
5714301976	pacing	the speed or tempo of an authors writing	42
5714312099	paradox	a seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true	43
5714319862	parallelism	sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns	44
5714338020	anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clause in a row	45
5714353130	chiasmus	when the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time the order of the words is reversed	46
5714376987	anithesis	two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses with parallel structure	47
5714386399	zuegma	when a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words that it governs or modifies	48
5714410723	parenthetical idea	when parenthesis are used to set off ideas from the rest of the sentence	49
5714421768	parody	an exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes	50
5714433518	persona	the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story	51
5714439402	poetic device	device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences, or lines	52
5714473012	assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowels	53
5714498440	alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words	54
5714509625	consonance	repetition of the same consonants at the end of a word or within words	55
5714522522	onomatopoeia	the use of a word which imitates or suggests how it will sound	56
5714533256	internal rhyme	a line of poetry that contains a rhyme within the same rhyme	57
5714545824	slant rhyme	when a poet creates a rhyme but two words do not rhyme exactly, they are merely similar	58
5714564958	end rhyme	when the last word of the two different lines of poetry rhyme	59
5714573981	rhyme scheme	pattern of a poem's end rhymes	60
5714581755	stressed and unstressed syllables	in every word of more than one syllable one of the syllables is stressed or is said with more force than the other syllable(s)	61
5714600925	meter	regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry	62
5714607227	free verse	poetry that does not have much meter or rhyme	63
5714613493	iambic pentameter	a line of poetry that has ten syllables alternating with stressed and unstressed	64
5714626313	sonnet	a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter	65
5714637106	polysyndeton	when a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjuctions	66
5714644567	pun	a play on words; when a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way	67