AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

9646769578	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	0
9646769579	Melodrama	A form of theater in which the hero is very good, the villain is very evil, and the heroine is very pure	1
9646769580	Metaphor	A comparison or analogy that states one thing is another	2
9646769581	Meter	Rhythmic patterns of stressed and un-stressed syllables	3
9646769582	Metonymy	A word that is used to stand for something else that it is associated with	4
9646769583	Motif	A recurring element or device	5
9646769584	Nemesis	The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	6
9646769585	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like they mean	7
9646769586	Opposition	To have a pair of elements that contrast sharply, not necessarily in conflict	8
9646769587	Oxymoron	A phrase-like contradiction	9
9646769588	Palindrome	A word or phrase that reads the same forward and back	10
9646769589	Parable	A story that instructs	11
9646769590	Paradox	A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not	12
9646769591	Parallelism	Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect	13
9646769592	Parenthetical phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some added detail	14
9646769593	Parody	The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness	15
9646769594	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, about shepherds	16
9646769595	Pathos	Literature that seeks to arouse and intensify sorrow, pity, or sympathy	17
9646769596	Personification	Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form	18
9646769597	Plaint	A poem or speech expressing sorrow	19
9646769598	The omniscient narrator	A third-person narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters	20
9646769599	The limited omniscient narrator	A third-person narrator who only reports what one character sees and thinks	21
9646769600	The objective, or camera-eye narrator	A third-person narrator who tells a story without knowing the character's thoughts unless the character speaks of it	22
9646769601	The first-person narrator	A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view	23
9646769602	The stream consciousness technique	Like a first-person narration, but instead of the characters telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's mind, making them know about all the character's thoughts	24
9646859021	Similie	A direct comparison between two things introduced by "like" or "as"	25