AP Literature Terms Flashcards

6745748836	Allusion	reference to something outside of the piece of literature, especially something well-known from history or literature	0
6745748837	Attitude	opinion on a subject by a character or author	1
6745748838	Details	individual pieces or parts that make a picture or story	2
6745748839	Devices of sound	techniques around sound, especially in poetry, such as rhyme/alliteration/onomatopoeia	3
6745748840	Diction	word choice, often words with a similar effect	4
6745748841	Figurative language	figures of speech such as metaphor/simile/irony	5
6745748842	Foil	a character who serves to emphasize another's qualities by contrasts or similarities	6
6745748843	Irony	figure of speech in which the intended meaning and actual meaning differ	7
6745748844	Metaphor	figure of speech in which a comparison is stated as reality	8
6745748845	Narrative techniques	methods of telling a story such as point of view and dialogue	9
6745748846	Omniscient point of view	a narrator sees and tells all	10
6745748847	Point of view	a vantage point from which a story is told	11
6745748848	Resources of language	all techniques such as diction/figurative language/imagery	12
6745748849	Rhetorical techniques	devices such as contrast/paradox/repetition/sarcasm/rhetorical question	13
6745748850	Satire	using ridicule to arouse readers' disapproval	14
6745748851	Setting	background of a story	15
6745748852	Simile	directly expressed comparison	16
6745748853	Rhetorical strategy	also known as simply the second word, the management of language for a purpose, placing elements to achieve an effect	17
6745748854	Structure	arrangement or division of parts in relation to a whole, such as series/contrast /repetition or play/novel/poem	18
6745748855	Style	mode of expression, such as diction/figurative language/imagery	19
6745748856	Symbol	something both itself and a sign of something else, especially something tangible standing in for something intangible	20
6745748857	Syntax	the structure or arrangement of words/sentences/paragraphs, comes in types/length/order	21
6745748858	Theme	main thought expressed by a work	22
6745748859	Tone	manner in which an author expresses an attitude, described by adjectives and subject to change, a result of diction/figurative language/imagery	23
6745748860	Allegory	a story in which people/things/events have another extended meaning	24
6745748861	Ambiguity	multiple meanings, especially when two meanings are incompatible	25
6745748862	Analogy	a comparison, especially for clarification	26
6745748863	Apostrophe	direct address, especially to something not present	27
6745748864	Connotation	the implication of a word or phrase, not literal meaning	28
6745748865	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word or phrase as found in the dictionary, not implication	29
6745748866	Convention	a device of style used so often that it becomes a mean of expression	30
6745748867	Didactic	explicitly instructive	31
6745748868	Digression	material unrelated to the subject	32
6745748869	Euphemism	a figure of speech used to avoid bluntness and offensiveness	33
6745748870	Hyperbole	a deliberate exaggeration	34
6745748871	Jargon	the specialized language of a group	35
6745748872	Literal	the precise meaning, not figurative	36
6745748873	Lyrical	song-like, with emotion/subjectivity/imagination	37
6745748874	Oxymoron	a combination of opposites, two contradictions in unison	38
6745748875	Parable	an allegory which suggests a principle/moral/answer in the story	39
6745748876	Paradox	a statement that seems self-contradictory but is true	40
6745748877	Parody	a composition that imitates the style of another, especially for humor	41
6745748878	Personification	figurative language that makes the nonhuman seem human	42
6745748879	Reliability	whether a narrator can/should be trusted	43
6745748880	Rhetorical question	asked for effect expecting no answer	44
6745748881	Soliloquy	a speech in which a character who is alone voices thoughts	45
6745748882	Stereotype	a conventional pattern/expression/character/idea	46
6745748883	Thesis	the theme/meaning/position a writer tries to prove	47
6745748884	Slant rhyme	near or half rhyme	48
6745748885	Pentameter	a line with five feet	49
6745748886	Stanza	repeated grouping of three or more lines, especially with the same meter and rhyme scheme	50
6745748887	Sonnet	iambic pentameter poem, especially with fourteen lines	51
6745748888	English/Shakespearean sonnet	rhymed abab cdcd efef gg	52
6745748889	Italian/Petrarchan sonnet	rhymed abba abba cde cde	53
6745748890	Tetrameter	a line with four feet	54
6745748891	Ode	a poem composed in address to something, especially elevated in style/written in admiration/using irregular or varied meter	55
6745748892	Romantic	idealistic poetry written about the individual experience/nature/youth/emotion	56
6745748893	Neoclassical	poetry written about order/reason/society/balance	57
6745748894	Caesura	a break within a line	58
6745748895	Meter	rhythm within a poem determined by length and number of feet	59
6745748896	Metaphysical conceit	an analogy between spiritual qualities and a physical object, may control a poem's structure	60
6745748897	Meditative lyric	addressing an object or text to contemplate	61
6745748898	Alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the beginnings of words	62
6745748899	Assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	63
6745748900	Ballad	tells a story, narrative	64
6745748901	Ballad stanza	four-line section in iambic meter, lines 1 and 3 are unrhymed with four feet, lines 2 and 4 are rhymed with three feet	65
6745748902	Blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	66
6745748903	Dactyl	type of foot, accented unaccented unaccented (three syllables)	67
6745748904	End-stopped	line that stops at the end	68
6745748905	Enjambment	line that continues past the end	69
6745748906	Free verse	not written in traditional meter	70
6745748907	Heroic couplet	pair of end-stopped rhyming lines in iambic pentameter	71
6745748908	Hexameter	a line with six feet	72
6745748909	Iamb	type of foot, unaccented accented (two syllables)	73
6745748910	Internal rhyme	end sound repetition within a line	74
6745748911	Onomatopoeia	the sound suggests the meaning	75
6745748912	Bildungsroman	a coming-of-age story	76
6745748913	Doppleganger	an eerie double	77
6745748914	In medias res	a story that starts in the middle	78
6745748915	Dramatis personae	list of characters, especially at the beginning of a play	79
6745748916	Double entendre	two meanings, especially when one is sexual	80
6745748917	Pun	two meanings, especially when using homophones	81
6745748918	Deus ex machina	"God from the machine," sudden solving of a problem by a new character/event/ability	82
6745748919	Elegy	poem of serious reflection, especially lamenting the dead	83
6745748920	Eulogy	praises someone highly, especially someone who recently died	84
6745748921	Epithet	an adjective describing a quality, especially as a term of abuse	85
6745748922	Epistle	a letter or a poem in the form of a letter	86
6745748923	Epitaph	short text honoring the dead, especially on a tombstone	87
6745748924	Epigram	pithy remark that is funny, OR a short and blunt poem with a witty ending	88
6745748925	Entreaty	to earnestly or humbly make a request	89