AP Lang: Literature terms Flashcards

3521704330	Homily	A sermon of speech that a religious person or priest delivers before a group of people to offer them moral correction	0
3521704331	Genre	The type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style	1
3521951790	Extended metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem	2
3521951791	Synechdoche	A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part	3
3521951792	Elegy	A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased	4
3521951793	Epic	A long narrative poem	5
3521951794	Analogy	A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it	6
3521951795	Alliteration	A stylistic decide in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series	7
3521951796	Assonance	Two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds	8
3521951797	Diction	Word choice	9
3521951798	Aphorism	A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner; often applied to philosophical, moral, and literary principles	10
3521951799	Satire	A writing technique to expose or criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule	11
3521951800	Allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance	12
3521951801	Syntax	Sentence structure	13
3521951802	Theme	A main idea or underlying meaning of literary work	14
3521951803	Apostrophe	A writer or speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech	15
3521951804	Epigram	A rhetorical decvice that is memorable, brief, interesting; surprising satirical statement	16
3521951805	Motif	An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work	17
3521951806	Symbol	A word, phrase, or image that represents something else	18
3521951807	Dirge	A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work	19
3521951808	Consonance	Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	20
3521951809	Onomatopoeia	A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing	21
3521951810	Epitaph	An inscription written on a grave; usually brief, having figurative verse or in prose form	22
3521951811	Fable	A concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end	23
3521951812	Euphemism	Polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite	24
3521951813	Juxtaposition	Two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are places side by side in a narrative or a poem for comparison/contrast	25
3521951814	Metonymy	Figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else close associates with it	26
3521951815	Chiasmus	Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect	27
3521951816	Figurative language	Language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive, and impactful	28
3522225009	Denotation	Literary or diction meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative meaning	29
3522225010	Prose	Language with no formal metrical structure; natural flow of speech	30
3522225011	Structure	Relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature	31
3522225012	Imagery	Sensory details	32
3522225013	Caricature	Particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly/comical effect	33
3522225014	Didactic	Writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson	34
3522225015	Pathetic fallacy	Literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature	35
3522225016	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	36
3522225017	Litote	Employs an understatement by using double negatives	37
3522225018	Personification	A thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes	38
3522225019	Colloquialism	Use of informal words, phrases, or slang in writing	39
3522225020	Connotation	A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which is describes explicitly	40
3522225021	Pedantic	Someone who is concerned with precision, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning	41
3522225022	Predicate adjectives	Adjective that is used to modify an attribute of the subject of the sentence	42
3522225023	Predicate nominative	Noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb	43
3522225024	Anathema	Detested person or thing	44
3522225025	Myth	Legendary or traditional story w/o real evidence	45
3522225026	Novel	Any extended fiction prose narrative	46
3522225027	Parody	An imitation of a particular writer, artistic or genre; exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect	47
3522225028	Rhetoric	Technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form	48
3522225029	Subordinate clause	Clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence (dependent clause)	49
3522225030	Periodic sentence	Main clause or predicate is held at the end	50
3522225031	Rhetorical question	Question asked for effect or emphasis	51
3522225032	Allegory	Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events	52
3522225033	Simile	Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"	53
3522225034	Metaphor	Implicit/hidden comparison w/o "like" or "as"	54
3522225035	Conceit	Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors	55
3522225036	Epithet	Describes a place, thing, or person in that is helps make characteristics of them more prominent than they actually are	56
3522225037	Hyperbole	Exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis	57
3522225038	Tone	Attituden of the writer towards subject or audience	58
3522225039	Clause paradox	Statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include latent truth or value	59
3522225040	Inversion	(Anastrophe); literary technique which the normal order of words is reversed to achieve a particular effect	60
3522225041	Parallelism	Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in sound/meaning/meter	61
3522225042	Situational irony	(Cosmic irony); trope in which accidental events over that seem oddly appropriate	62
3522225043	Antithesis	Two opposite ideas are out together to achieve a contrasting effect	63
3522225044	Balanced sentence	A sentence so dusting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure	64
3522225045	Verbal irony	(Sarcasm); a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words express	65
3522225046	Dramatic irony	Situation in a narrative in which the reader m knows something about present or future circumstances that the character doesn't know	66
3522225047	Cumulative sentence	Main clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions that gather details about a person, place, event, etc	67
3522225048	Lyric	Short poem written in repeating form	68
3522225049	Antecedent	Literary device in which a word or pronoun in a line or sentence refers to an earlier word	69
3522225050	Subject complement	The adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb	70