AP Literature Terms Flashcards

8402192726	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story	0
8402197287	Genre	A category or type of literature	1
8402201981	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	2
8402210573	Protagonist	the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.	3
8402221805	Flat Character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	4
8402228031	Round Character	A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work	5
8402282902	Doppelgänger	Double	6
8402294715	Foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	7
8402298319	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	8
8402313528	Climax	the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.	9
8402316510	Closure	An ending or completion, or something that gives a sense of finality.	10
8402323713	Syntax	Sentence structure	11
8402327686	Asyndeton	A sentence construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	12
8402339540	Polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	13
8402348101	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	14
8402351744	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	15
8402355949	Metonymy	Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole.	16
8402367237	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	17
8402371052	Parallel structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	18
8402378176	Antithesis	Opposite	19
8402382186	Ellipsis	...	20
8402386210	Vignette	A short scene or story	21
8402404338	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	22
8402408520	Omniscient Narration	Narration from someone who can see and feel each one of the character's thoughts and emotions.	23
8402412064	Parody	A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	24
8402412065	Satire	A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness	25
8402416423	Interior Monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head	26
8402430485	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	27
8402447565	Denoument	Resolution	28
8402452106	Exposition	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.	29
8402455102	Titular/Eponymous	in title or name; nominal	30
8402462694	Xenia	Hospitality	31
8402480896	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	32
8402486811	Endstop	a pause at the end of a line often marked by punctuation	33
8402491063	Discursive	Rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly	34
8402496060	Elegy/Elegiac	a sorrowful poem or speech	35
8402499391	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	36
8402503431	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	37
8402506703	End Rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	38
8402512032	Internal Rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	39
8402516089	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	40
8402519639	Masculine Rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	41
8402527568	Half Rhyme	Rhyme only occurs on the first syllable of the rhyming word	42
8402536464	Epigram	A witty saying expressing a single thought or observation	43
8402545090	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	44
8402554998	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	45
8402554999	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	46
8402558426	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself; oxymoron	47
8402566820	Litotes	Understatement; double negative	48
8402574360	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	49
8402574361	Ethos	Ethical appeal	50
8402578393	Logos	Logical appeal	51
8402583495	Pathos	Emotional appeal	52
8402587210	Rhetoric	The art of using language effectively and persuasively	53
8402609221	Apostrophe	Poem adressed to an inanimate object	54
8402626238	Epigraph	A brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme.	55
8402632153	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	56
8402636054	Allegory	A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities; characters contain the name referring to the ideas	57
8402652705	Gustatory Imagery	descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste	58
8402657150	Olfactory Imagery	descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell	59
8402657151	Tactile Imagery	descriptive language that appeals to the sense of touch	60
8402661105	Auditory Imagery	descriptive language thats appeal to the sense of sound	61
8402670927	Visual Imagery	descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight	62
8402676199	Colloquial	characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation	63
8402680193	Pedantic	something marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects; stuffy, boring	64