AP Literature Terms and shit Flashcards

4373460116	Allegory	work in which characters, settings, and events stand for an abstract idea or something greater than the original meaning (EX. Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies).	0
4373478404	Alliteration	repeated sound at the beginning of words (EX. Morgan makes music).	1
4373511501	Allusion	Reference to history, literature, religion, politics, or other culture based topics.	2
4373521278	Ambiguity	Deliberate suggestion of two or more different (often conflicting) pieces of work. Leaves room for a variety of interpretations.	3
4373542414	Analogy	comparison made between two things to show similarities.	4
4373550012	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.	5
4373562580	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea (EX. "bright star!" opening Keats' poem)	6
4373578573	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds within words (not necessarily at the beginning of the word).	7
4373592498	Indirect characterization	the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action.	8
4373645588	Direct characterization	Character is revealed by the author telling us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, etc... Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form.	9
4373678125	Colloquialism	a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. (EX. "He's out of his head if he thinks I'm gonna go for such a stupid idea).	10
4373690339	Connotation	the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.	11
4373701446	Elegy	poem of mourning for someone who has passed (not to be confused with eulogy, a piece aimed to praise the dead)	12
4373745488	Epistrophe	repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a line (opposite of anaphora)	13
4373778214	Farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.	14
4373782277	Foil	a character to contrast another, usually a sidekick type	15
4373787517	Hyperbole	an exaggeration or overstatement for effect	16
4373793964	Imagery	use of descriptive language to evoke a picture or a concrete image of a person, place, or thing.	17
4373801254	Irony	Discrepancy between appearance and reality	18
4373808712	Verbal irony	when someone says one thing but means another	19
4373814526	Situational Irony	takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.	20
4373820582	Dramatic irony	created by the character knowing one truth, while the reader or audience knows better (knows the real truth)	21
4373828775	Litotes	is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form	22
4373836674	Lyric poetry	expression of the personal thoughts or feelings of the speaker	23
4373840054	Metaphor	a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.	24
4373856203	Implied metaphor	does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water.	25
4373888070	Extended metaphor	is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.	26
4373895825	Dead metaphor	is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid: "The head of the house", "the seat of the government", "a knotty problem" are all dead metaphors.	27
4373898915	Mixed metaphor	A metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas."	28
4373907725	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch.	29
4373912845	Mood	Atmosphere created by the writer's diction and the details selected	30
4373921802	Motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme	31
4373929995	Oxymoron	figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. (EX. "Jumbo shrimp.")	32
4373934192	Parable	short story with a moral lesson on life	33
4373939074	Paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. Koan is a type of paradox in Buddhism that is used to gain intuitive knowledge ("what is the sound of one hand clapping?")	34
4373958647	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.	35
4373981072	PLOT: 1. Exposition 2. rising action 3. climax 4. resolution	series of related events in a work 1. Intro of characters, situation, and setting 2. complications in circumstance (conflict) 3. that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called "turning point" 4. the conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the "dénouement"(french).	36
4374166149	Simile	comparison of two unlike things using like or as	37
4374184703	Style	the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax.	38
4374188047	Symbol	a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.	39
4374192389	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." (wheels representing the entire car)	40
4374212829	Telegraphic sentence	sentence shorter than 5 words in length	41
4374215215	Theme	the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.	42
4374220024	Tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.	43
4374228203	Tragedy	in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end.	44
4374234247	Modernism	a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century.	45
4374253148	Realism	a style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.	46
4374239007	Important timeline for writing styles:	TIME LINE: Puritanism 1620 - 1770s Neoclassic 1770s - early 1800s Romanticism early 1800s - 1870s Realism 1850s -early 1900s Regionalism 1884 - early 1900s Naturalism - late 1800s - mid 1900s Modernism - 1920s - [1945] [Post-Modernism - 1945 - ]	47