AP English Language Literary Terms Flashcards

4979781324	Allegory	a work that functions on a symbolic level	0
4979781325	Alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	1
4979781326	Allusion	a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	2
4979781327	Analogy	drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect	3
4979781328	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	4
4979781329	Anecdote	short story of an amusing or interesting event	5
4979781330	Antecedent	a preceding occurrence or cause or event	6
4979781331	Antithesis	an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses	7
4979781332	Aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	8
4979781333	Apostrophe	a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent	9
4979781334	Argument	a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true	10
4979781335	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	11
4979781337	Attitude	the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience	12
4979781338	Character	person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work	13
4979781339	Chiasmus	Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. It is often short and summarizes a main idea.	14
4979781340	Cliche	an overused saying or idea	15
4979781341	Colloquialism	characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech	16
4979781342	Connotation	a meaning or association suggested by a word beyond its definition	17
4979781343	Consonance	repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity, as in boost/best; it can also be seen within several compound words, such as fulfill and ping-pong	18
4979781344	Deduction	reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)	19
4979781345	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	20
4979781348	Diction	the author's choice of words	21
4979781349	Direct Object	the object that receives the direct action of the verb	22
4979781350	Dramatic Irony	occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening	23
4979781351	Ethos	the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	24
4979781352	Euphemism	an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	25
4979781353	Extended Metaphor	the comparison between two things is continued beyond the first point of comparison; this extends and deepens a description.	26
4979781354	Genre	type or category of literary work (e.g., poetry, essay, short story, novel, drama)	27
4979781355	Homily	a sermon, or a moralistic lecture	28
4979781356	Cacophony	harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance	29
4979781357	Hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	30
4979781358	Independent Clause	a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence	31
4979781359	Indirect Object	the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb	32
4979781360	Invective	An intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack	33
4979781361	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	34
4979781363	Metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)	35
4979781364	Mood	a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude	36
4979781365	Narration	the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence	37
4979781366	Narrative	consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story	38
4979781367	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that mimic sounds. they appeal to our sense of hearing and they help bring a description to life. a string of syllables the author has made up to represent the way a sound really sounds. example: caarackle!	39
4979781368	Oxymoron	a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms	40
4979781369	Paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	41
4979781370	Parallelism	refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	42
4979781371	Parody	a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way	43
4979781372	Pathos	quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness	44
4979781373	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	45
4979781374	Point of View	the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient)	46
4979781379	Prose	ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse	47
4979781380	Repetition	sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzaz are repeated for emphasis	48
4979781381	Rhetoric	the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion	49
4979781382	Sarcasm	from the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," ___ involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something; it may use irony as a device	50
4979781383	Satire	language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule	51
4979781384	Situational Irony	an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does	52
4979781385	Stream-of-consciousness	a narrative technique that places the reader in the mind and thought process of the narrator, no matter how random or spontaneous that may be	53
4979781386	Subject	tells whom or what the sentence is about	54
4979781387	Syllogism	deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises	55
4979781388	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	56
4979781389	Synecdoche	using a part of something to represent the whole thing	57
4979781390	Syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.	58
4979781391	Theme	central idea of a work of literature	59
4979781392	Thesis	an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument	60
4979781393	Third Person Limited	point of view which represents the feelings of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters	61
4979781394	Tone	the author's attitude toward the subject or audience, either stated or implied	62
4979781395	Understatement	the opposite of exaggeration; it is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended	63
4979781396	Verbal Irony	in this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning	64