AP Literature Terms Flashcards

8333699914	allegory	story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures	0
8333715180	antecedent	word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces	1
8333775301	bildungsroman	novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity	2
8333794252	canon	works of a writer	3
8333795943	catharsis	emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy	4
8333824734	colloquialism	informal speech	5
8333828408	connotation	implied meaning of a word	6
8333832729	denotation	literal meaning of a word, dictionary definition	7
8333841049	diction	word choice	8
8333844618	farce	extremely broad humor	9
8333848052	foil	character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits	10
8333862538	foreshadowing	event or statement that suggests a future event	11
8333876727	hubris	excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall	12
8333887082	hyperbole	exaggeration or overstatement, opposite of understatement	13
8333927171	implicit	implied meaning, opposite of explicit	14
8333931074	metaphor	analogy that states one thing is another	15
8333945487	motif	recurring or dominant element in a work	16
8333968035	objectivity	impersonal view of events	17
8333987158	paradox	seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection	18
8334001175	parallelism	repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect	19
8334009626	personification	giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects	20
8334019155	protagonist	main character	21
8334024022	satire	genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change	22
8334046443	simile	"weak" metaphor, often uses "like" or "as"	23
8334060947	subjectivity	personal view of events	24
8334064481	symbol	word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level	25
8334078849	syntax	word order	26
8334083553	theme	central idea of a work	27
8334088146	tragic flaw	weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall	28