AP Literature Terms Flashcards

7526591082	Allusion	A reference to something outside the work	0
7526594092	Attitude	A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject	1
7526606428	Details (also choice of details)	Items or parts that make up a larger picture or story	2
7526684959	Devices of Sound	The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Ex: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, later defined under metrical terms.	3
7526695940	Diction	Word choice. Specific word choices that are central to the meaning of a sentence	4
7526710575	Figurative Language	Writing that uses figures of speech (metaphor, simile, irony)	5
7526729443	Imagery	The images of a literary work, including sensory details and figurative language	6
7526747381	Irony	A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame and blame for praise.	7
7526765387	Metaphor	Figurative language that expresses a comparison without the use of comparative terms like "as," "like," or "than"	8
7526825495	Narrative Techniques	The methods used in telling a story (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, interior monologue)	9
7526861906	Omniscient Point of View	The vantage point of a story in which a narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses.	10
7526871377	Point of View	Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told.	11
7526877060	Resources of Language	General phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. Style and rhetoric (diction, syntax, figurative language etc...)	12
7526891456	Rhetorical Techniques	Devices used in effective or persuasive language. Includes many including contrast, repetitions, paradox	13
7526908158	Satire	Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule	14
7526922959	Setting	The background to a story, physical location	15
7526925825	Simile	A directly expressed comparison, usually with "like," "as," or "than"	16
7526942137	Strategy	Management of language for a specific effect.	17
7526966370	Structure	Arrangement of materials within a work, relationship of the parts of a work to the whole	18
7527009536	Style	The mode of expression in language, characteristic manner of expression of an author	19
7527033960	Symbol	Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something elese.	20
7527108895	Syntax	The structure of a sentence	21
7527111809	Tone	The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude.	22
7527136985	Allegory	A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning	23
7527141679	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings a literary meaning may communicate, particularly incompatible ones	24
7527155295	Apostrophe	Direct address, usually to something not presents ("Bright star! Would I were steadfast.")	25
7527165400	Connotation	Implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning ("China" v. "The orient")	26
7527173496	Convention	A device of style or subject matter so often used it becomes a recognized means of expression	27
7527190604	Denotation	Dictionary meaning of a word	28
7527193360	Didactic	Explicitly instructive	29
7527199430	Digression	The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work.	30
7527206008	Epigram	A pithy saying, often using contrast	31
7527220853	Euphemism	A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness	32
7527224663	Grotesque	Characterized by distortions or incongruities	33
7527259747	Hyperbole	Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement	34
7527262933	Jargon	The special language of a profession or group	35
7527266514	Literal	Not figurative	36
7527314264	Lyrical	Songlike	37
7527317104	Oxymoron	A combination of opposites	38
7527320941	Parable	A story designed to suggest a principle or moral	39
7527323933	Paradox	A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but is true	40
7527339603	Parody	A composition that imitates the style of another composition for comic effect	41
7527347314	Personification	Figurative language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics	42
7527357129	Reliability	A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust	43
7527365323	Rhetorical question	A question asked purely for effect	44
7527402341	Soliloquy	A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud	45
7527409756	Stereotype	A conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea	46
7527415645	Syllogism	A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them ("All tragedies end unhappily." - "Hamlet is a tragedy" - "Hamlet end unhappily")	47
7527660708	Thesis	The theme, meaning, or poisiton that a writer undertakes	48
7527665503	Alliteration	The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words	49
7527690305	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	50
7527692947	Ballad Meter	A four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines 1 & 3, three feet in lines 2&4	51
7527700956	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentatmeter	52
7527766487	Dactyl	A metrical foot of three syllables, accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables	53
7527778545	End-stopped	A line with a pause at the end (period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, question mark)	54
7527787201	Free verse	Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmic	55
7527797898	Heroic couplet	Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc	56
7527807433	Hexameter	A line containing six feet	57
7527810018	iamb	A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. Most common foot	58
7527838748	Internal rhyme	Rhyme that occurs within a line	59
7527846174	Onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	60
7527849577	Pentameter	A line containing five feet	61
7527861528	Rhyme royal	A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc	62
7527865517	Sonnet	Fourteen line iambic pentameter poem	63
7527869178	Stanza	Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme	64
7527895048	Terza Rima	Three-line stanza rhymed aba	65
7527898000	Tetrameter	A line of four feet	66
7527898001	Antecedent	That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to whihc a pronoun refers. In "The witches cast their spells," the antecedent of "their" is "witches"	67
7527938069	Clause	A group of words containing a subject and its verb	68
7527981510	Ellipsis	The omission of a word necessary for complete construction that is still meaningful "If rainy, bring an umbrella	69
7527990239	Imperative	The mood of a verb that gives an order	70
7528000891	Modify	To restrict or limit in meaning.	71
7528005946	Parallel structure	A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or paragraph	72
7528010621	Periodic sentence	A sentence grammatically complete only with the last word.	73
7528013637	Syntax	The structure of a sentence	74