AP Language Literary Terms PROM Flashcards
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| 9656135234 | American Romantic hero | traits - knowledge based on intuition, not formal education, loves nature, quests for a higher truth | 0 | |
| 9656141864 | American Renaissance | "coming of age" in American Literature - many masterpieces written (1840-1860) Authors: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman | 1 | |
| 9697053416 | Dark Romanticism | traits of romanticism, but add good vs evil, guilt and sin, horror, insanity, supernatural (Poe, Hawthorne, Melville) | 2 | |
| 9785591639 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 3 | |
| 9785602470 | slant rhyme | refers to words that almost rhyme (farm, yard) or appear to the eye to do so (said, paid) | 4 | |
| 9785613790 | cadence | a regular beat or rhyme: the way a person's voice changes by gently rising and falling while he or she is speaking | 5 | |
| 9802396560 | Realism | depicts life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing contemporary life, often middle and lower classes | 6 | |
| 9802402444 | Naturalism | shows human behavior as determined by heredity, environment, and the laws of nature (very pessimistic) | 7 | |
| 9831860669 | local color | the customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character | 8 | |
| 9831867617 | regionalism | literature that uses local color | 9 | |
| 9831961211 | psychological realism | focus on the interior characterization, motives, thoughts, feelings | 10 | |
| 9877894243 | Modernism | experimentation with new styles (i.e. stream of consciousness, and nontraditional themes, asking questions about meaning and purpose). Influenced by ideas of Marx and Freud | 11 | |
| 9877969881 | Harlem Renaissance | cultural movement of African- American artists, writers, musicians, and performers- mostly located in Harlem in NYC | 12 | |
| 9906966637 | Postmodernism | post World War II literature- relying heavily on fragmentation, paradox questionable narrators, etc. - often doesn't have a neatly tied up ending - may be meta-fiction, magic realism (surrealism) | 13 | |
| 9906984839 | Beat generation | (1950's lit) celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. Kerouac and Ginsberg | 14 | |
| 9907047579 | Rationalism | The idea that humans can arrive at truth through reasoning | 15 | |
| 9907053015 | Romanticism | The idea that values feeling and intuition over reason- characterized by heroes and journeys, nature imagination | 16 |