AP Literature Vocabulary List Flashcards

7259978782	abstract	general term, referring to a broad concept	0
7259979792	allegory	a literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely	1
7259981122	alliteration	the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables	2
7259982441	allusion	a reference to another work of literature, or art, history, or current events	3
7259983706	analogy	in literature, a comparison between two things that helps explain or illustrate one or both of them	4
7259984623	anaphora	repetition of an initial word or words to add emphasis	5
7259985249	annotation	the act of noting observations directly on a text, especially anything striking or confusing, in order to record ideas and impressions for later analysis	6
7259986897	antagonist	character in a story or play who opposes the protagonist	7
7259987597	apostrophe	a direct address to an abstraction, a thing, an animal, or an imaginary or absent person	8
7259989345	archaic language	words that were once common but that are no longer used	9
7259989686	ars poetica	literally "the art of poetry"; a form of poetry written about poetry	10
7259991830	assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words	11
7259992874	atmosphere	the feeling created for the reader by a work of literature	12
7259993586	ballad	sung poem that recounted a dramatic story	13
7259994973	beat movement	a movement of American writers in the 1950s who saw American society as oppressively conformist	14
7259998359	bildungsroman	a novel that explores the maturation of the protagonist, with the narrative usually moving the main character from childhood into adulthood	15
7259999605	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	16
7260000289	cadence	quality of spoken text formed from combining the text's rhythm with the rise and fall in the inflection of the speaker's voice	17
7260001604	caesura	a pause within a line of poetry	18
7260002122	caricature	a character with features or traits that are exaggerated so that the character seems ridiculous.	19
7260004580	carpe diem	a widespread literary theme meaning "Seize the day" in Latin and found especially in lyric poetry	20
7260006017	catharsis	emotional release felt by the audience at the end of a tragic drama	21
7260006923	character	a person depicted in a narrative	22
7260007288	flat character	a character embodying only one or two traits and who lacks character development	23
7260007948	round character	a character exhibiting a range of emotions and who evolves over the course of the story	24
7260008864	secondary character	a supporting character	25
7260009290	stock character	a type of flat character based on a stereotype	26
7260009759	characterization	the method by which the author builds, or reveals, a character	27
7260010507	chorus	a large group of participants in a play who deliver commentary on the play's action	28
7260011454	climax	the point in a story when the conflict reaches it's highest intensity	29
7260012725	colloquial language/colloquialism	an expression or language construction appropriate only for casual, informal speaking or writing	30
7260014079	colonialism	the occupation of one country by another	31
7260014479	comedy	a dramatic work that has a light, amusing plot	32
7260015236	comedy of manners	a satiric dramatic form that lampoons social conventions	33
7260015915	concrete	a specific particular thing rather than an broad concept	34
7260017435	conflict	tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot	35
7260018110	connotation	meanings or associations readers have with a word or item beyond it's dictionary definition	36
7260019333	consonance	an instance in which identical final consonant sounds in nearby words follow different vowel sounds	37
7260020474	denotation	the literal definition of a word	38
7260021069	denouement	conflict has been resolved at the end of the story	39
7260021775	dialect	dialogue or narration written to stimulate regional or cultural speech patterns	40
7260023339	dialogue	the written depiction of conversation between characters	41
7260023745	diction	a writer's choice of words	42
7260024159	dramatic monologue	a type of poem in which the speaker addresses an audience that is present in the poem	43
7260025416	ekphrastic poetry	a form of poetry that comments on a work of art in another genre	44
7260026037	elegy	a contemplative poem on death and mortality	45
7260027285	end-stopped line	poetry line that concludes with a punctuation that marks a pause	46
7260028341	enjambment	a poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue onto the next line to complete it's meaning	47
7260030006	epigram	a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or a reader	48
7260030712	epigraph	a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggest it's themes	49