Ap Literature Vocabulary terms. Flashcards

10206136359	Abstract	Expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed.	0
10206136360	Adage	A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation	1
10206141186	Allegory	Figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.	2
10206142868	Alliteration	Commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group	3
10206147811	Allusion	An indirect or passing reference	4
10206148150	Ambiguity	Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.	5
10206153127	Anachronism	Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time.	6
10206153128	Analogy	A correspondence or partial similarity.	7
10206155502	Anecdote	A short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.	8
10206155550	Antagonist	A person who is opposed to.	9
10206158607	Antithesis	The direct opposite.	10
10240538516	Aphorism	A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation.	11
10240539199	Apostrophe	The sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word.	12
10240539200	Archetype	The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based.	13
10240539843	Assonance	Resemblance of sounds.	14
10240539844	Ballad	Any poem written in similar style.	15
10240540345	Bathos	Triteness or triviality in style.	16
10240540346	Blank verse	Unrhymed Verse.	17
10240555997	Caesura	Any break, pause or interruption.	18
10240555998	Canon	The body of ecclesiastical law.	19
10240557024	Caricature	The art or process of producing such pictures, descriptions, etc.	20
10240579723	Climax	A decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.	21
10240580879	Colloquial	Involving or using conversation.	22
10240581373	Conceit	An excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.	23
10240581872	connotation	The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.	24
10240581873	consonance	Accord or agreement.	25
10240582521	Couplet	A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.	26
10240582530	Diction	style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.	27
10240583381	Deus ex machina	Any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.	28
10240583716	Elegy	A poem written in elegiac meter.	29
10240605408	Ellipsis	Printing a mark or marks as ——, ..., or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.	30
10240605409	Enjambment	The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.	31
10240607651	Epic	resembling or suggesting such poetry.	32
10240623653	Epigram	A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.	33
10240624148	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.	34
10240624404	Exposition	writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain.	35
10240624405	Fable	A story not founded on fact.	36
10240625141	Falling action	The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.	37
10240625142	Farce	Humor of the type displayed in such works.	38
10240626601	First person - narrative	A literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself.	39
10240627068	Flashback	A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.	40
10240627416	Foil	To keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc.	41
10240627744	Foreshadowing	To show or indicate beforehand.	42
10240627745	Free verse	verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.	43
10240628326	Genre	A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique.	44
10240630864	Hyperbole	obvious and intentional exaggeration.	45
10240630865	Imagery	The use of rhetorical images.	46
10240631329	In medias res	In the middle of things.	47
10240631330	Irony	The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Example- the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.	48
10240726020	Juxtapose	To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.	49
10240727884	Litotes	understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."	50
10240727885	Lyric	Pertaining to or writing lyric poetry.	51
10240728660	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. Example - "A mighty fortress is our God."	52
10240728661	Meter	The fundamental unit of length in the metric system.	53
10240729464	metonymy	A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related. Example - "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people."	54
10240729968	Mood	A distinctive emotional quality or character. Example - The mood of the music was almost funereal.	55
10240735045	Motif	A recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. Example - the profit motif of free enterprise.	56
10240735046	Narrator	A person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.	57
10240735389	Ode	A poem intended to be sung.	58
10240735390	Omniscient point of view	Method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.	59
10240736124	Onomatopoeia	The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.	60
10240786656	Oxymoron	A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. Example - "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."	61
10240786657	Parable	A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.	62
10240787385	paradox	A self-contradictory and false proposition.	63
10240787386	Parody	A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. Example - his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.	64
10240794029	Pastoral	pertaining to the country or to life in the country; rural; rustic. Example - pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.	65
10240794030	Pathos	The quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.	66
10240794836	Persona	The narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author.	67
10240794837	Personification	The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.	68
10240805796	Plot	Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.	69
10240806876	Protagonist	The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.	70
10240806877	Quatrain	A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.	71
10240807507	Realism	The tendency to view or represent things as they really are.	72
10240807508	Refrain	To abstain from an impulse to say or do something. Example - I refrained from telling him what I thought.	73
10240807948	Rhetorical question	A question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. Example - "What is so rare as a day in June?"	74
10240809561	Rhyme	Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.	75
10240809562	Rising action	A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.	76
10240809982	Sarcasm	A sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark. Example - a review full of sarcasms.	77
10240809983	Satire	a literary genre comprising such compositions.	78
10240810917	Setting	the act of a person or thing that sets.	79
10240853895	Shakespearean Sonnet	A sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg	80
10240857610	Simile	A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. Example - "she is like a rose."	81
10240857611	Soliloquy	The act of talking while or as if alone.	82
10240888777	Stanza	An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.	83
10240888778	Stereotype	a set form; convention.	84
10240889280	Structure	A complex system considered from the point of view of the whole rather than of any single part. Example - the structure of modern science.	85
10240895508	Style	A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character. Example - the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.	86
10240895509	Syllogism	an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument.	87
10240896073	symbolism	The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.	88
10240896529	synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part.	89
10240896530	syntax	A system or orderly arrangement.	90
10240898169	Terza rima	An Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets	91
10240898526	Theme	A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition. Example - The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.	92
10240898527	Tone	quality or character of sound.	93
10240899307	Tragedy	A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster. Example - stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.	94
10240899308	voice	A range of such sounds distinctive to one person, or to a type of person or animal. Example - Her voice is commanding.	95