AP Literature Vocab 2 Flashcards

7328890117	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme	0
7328918232	bombast	elevated language, often pompous and overdone	1
7328921915	cacophony	a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds which create an effect of discordance.	2
7328934101	caesura	a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry	3
7328950609	canon	works considered by scholars & teachers to be the most important to study/read, constitutes "classics"	4
7349764229	carpe diem	a latin phrase which translated means "seize (catch) of the day"	5
7349768259	catharsis	aristole's word for the pity and fear an audience experiences upon viewing the downfall of a hero	6
7349771173	cause and effect relationships	a dominant technique in which the author analyzes reasons for a chain of events	7
7349779047	characterization	the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work	8
7349789504	chiasmus	repetition in successive clauses which are usually parallel in syntax	9
7349812562	classicism	an approach to literature which emphasizes reason, harmony, clarity, and the imitation of ancient writers and philosophers	10
7349816485	climax	the turning point, or crisis, in a play or other piece of literature	11
7349819052	colloquial expressions	informal, not always grammatically correct expressions that find acceptance in certain geographical areas and within certain groups of people	12
7349832012	comedy	a work which strives to provoke smiles and laughter	13
7349839290	comic relief	something of humor interrupts an otherwise serious, often tragic, literary work; a humorous scene or incident that alleviates tension in an otherwise serious work	14
7349847584	complication	the part of a plot in which the entanglement caused by the conflict is developed	15
7349849526	conceit	an extended metaphor, two unlike things are compared in several different ways	16
7349903967	concrete poetry	where the actual typeset layout of the poem suggests the topic	17
7349907454	conflict	a struggle between opposing forces	18
7349908155	connotation	emotional implications that a word may carry; implied or associated meaning for a particular word	19
7349914062	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowels in words near each other or in a line or lines of poetry	20
7349917022	couplet	pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter, may be a separate stanza	21
7349919086	crisis	climax or turning point of a story or play (may have more than one)	22
7349923489	dactyl	three syllable foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by the unaccented syllables	23
7349927105	denotation	the specific, exact meaning of a word; dictionary definition	24
7349933519	denouement	resolution of a plot after the climax	25
7349934410	deus ex machina	unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly to resolve a situation/untangle a plot	26
7349943209	dialect	speech peculiar to a region; exhibits distinctions between two groups or even two persons	27
7349945506	dialogue	conversation between two or more characters, usually set off with quotation marks	28
7349949588	diction	an author's choice of words	29