AP Literature Terms Flashcards

9611072652	Allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	0
9611085692	Alliteration	Repetition of sounds, especially in a row "bleed blue"	1
9611100082	Allusion	reference back to something presumably well known(bible)	2
9611142896	Ambiguity	multiple meanings, intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentance or passage	3
9611192730	Analogy	similarity or comparison between two different things	4
9611206368	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.	5
9611268256	Anecdote	A short story about a real indecent or person	6
9611280069	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	7
9611331526	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship, which expresses a general truth or moral principle; can be a memorable summation of the author's point.	8
9611419928	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity.	9
9611437403	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.	10
9611450512	Atmosphere	emotional mood of a literary work	11
9611465099	colloquialism	slang or informalities in writing	12
9611480478	conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between dissimilar objects.	13
9611728604	connotative	non literal meaning of a word	14
9611771170	denotation	literal meaning of a word	15
9611779681	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	16
9611797788	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	17
9611807773	Extended Metaphor	metaphor that reoccurs throughout a literary work	18
9611829376	Figurative Language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	19
9611969099	figure of speech	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense	20
9611976498	hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement	21
9612007810	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	22
9612116904	verbal irony	the words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) true meaning.	23
9612125258	situational irony	events turn out the opposite of what was expected.	24
9612127689	dramatic irony	facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but is known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work.	25
9612169101	juxtaposition	Putting two different ideas, things, and/or images side-by-side to compare and contrast.	26
9612202860	litotes	form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite	27
9612215226	loose sentence	A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.	28
9612224583	metaphor	figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	29
9612237645	metonymy	figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	30
9612258398	mood	grammatical and deals with verbal units and a speaker's attitude.	31
9612287213	narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	32
9613375456	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	33
9613383728	oxymoron	figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.	34
9613400045	paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.	35
9613401895	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	36
9613413047	parody	work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	37
9613427100	periodic sentence	sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.	38
9613488350	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	39
9613494465	first-person narrator	tells the story with the first-person pronoun, "I"	40
9613521830	second-person narrator	a narrator who tells a story using "you"	41
9613534724	third-person narrator	a narrator who tells the story using "he/she/they"	42
9613549092	polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	43
9613565429	prose	refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech.	44
9613582003	pun	either plays on multiple meanings of a word or replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but very different in meaning.	45
9613594353	repetition	duplication, either extract or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.	46
9613643911	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	47
9613647314	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	48
9613650690	sarcasm	involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something.	49
9613680830	satire	work that targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule.	50
9613685256	simile	comparison using like or as	51
9613721414	symbol/symbolism	anything that represents itself and stands for something else	52
9613723619	synechdote	a part of something that represents the whole	53
9613732046	syntax	sentence structure	54
9613733461	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	55
9613735299	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	56
9613810227	understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	57