AP Lit Terms Review Flashcards

6680405265	allegory	a story/picture/poem that can be interpreted to have hidden meaning, usually moral or political	0
6680405266	alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to each other	1
6680405267	allusion	A reference to a historical event, a person, or something else outside the work of literature	2
6680405268	analogy	a comparison of a thing/idea to a different thing/idea; aims to explain the first thing by comparing it to something that is familiar to the reader	3
6680405269	anaphora	the repetition of a word/phrase at the start of sucessive clauses	4
6680405270	antagonist	The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work	5
6680405271	antithesis	two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.	6
6680405272	aphorism	a statement of truth expressed in a concise and witty manner.	7
6680405273	apologue	a moral fable, especially one with animals as characters.	8
6680405274	apostrophe	a literary device used when an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present.	9
6680405275	archetype	a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature in literture	10
6680405276	assonance	Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound; the words must be close enough for the repetition of the sound to be noticeable.	11
6680405277	asyndeton	the omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	12
6680405278	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	13
6680405279	bildungsroman	Coming of age story, specificaly dealing with the main character's formative years	14
6680405280	blank verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.	15
6680405281	cacophony	mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds	16
6680405282	caesura	a pause near the middle of a line	17
6680405283	canto	subdivision or part in a narrative or epic poem, consisting of five or more lines such, as a stanza	18
6680405284	caricature	Used in descriptive writing where aspects of characters are exaggerated to create a comedic effect	19
6680405285	carpe diem poem	"Carpe diem" means "Seize the day" in Latin, and this type of poetry involves inspirational poems about seizing life and not letting it pass you by	20
6680405286	catharsis	The release of emotions in either a character or a reader, often taking place at the end of tragedies	21
6680405287	chiasmus	words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order	22
6680405288	colloquialism	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.	23
6680405289	conceit	extended metaphor that compares two very unlike things	24
6680405290	conflict	a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.	25
6680405291	connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	26
6680405292	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase, line, or sentence	27
6680405293	couplet	Two successive rhyming lines in a verse with the same meter	28
6680405294	denotation	Refers to the dictionary meaning of a word and not the implied associations	29
6680405295	denouement	the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.	30
6680405296	deus ex machina	a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object (god from the machine)	31
6680405297	diction	the choice of words and style of expression that an author makes and uses in a work of literature	32
6680405298	didactic	intended for instruction, inclined to teach or lecture others too much	33
6680405299	direction characterization	writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.	34
6680405300	dynamic character	dramatic character that undergoes an important inner change	35
6680405301	elegy	a poem written in praise/sorrow for someone who is dead	36
6680405302	end-stopped line	when a pause comes at the end of a sentence, clause or phrase	37
6680405303	English sonnet	A sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet with the rhyme scheme "abab cdcd efef gg"	38
6680405304	enjambment	the meaning runs-over from one poetic line to the next without a terminating punctuation mark	39
6680405305	epic	A long poetic narrative about the exploits of a legendary hero	40
6680405306	epigram	rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement	41
6680405307	epiphany	that moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story.	42
6680405308	epitaph	Brief writing or saying honoring a deceased person; usually an inscription on a grave	43
6680405309	epithet	phrase used to express the characteristic of a person	44
6680405310	euphemism	polite, indirect expressions that used to replace those which may be considered harsh or unpleasant	45
6680405311	euphony	Very pleasing to the ear; an audibly nice combination of words	46
6680405312	fable	a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.	47
6680405313	farce	sub genre of comedy where humor is created by putting people in ridiculous and absurd situations. It is characterized by physical and slapstick humor and usually a lack of character development.	48
6680405314	foil	a character that contrasts with another to highlight their characteristics (can also be contrast of places or plots)	49
6680405315	foreshadowing	A warning or indication of a future event	50
6680405316	frame story	is a set story within a story, narrative or movie told by characters	51
6680405317	free verse	verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.	52
6680405318	gothic	a style of literature which suggests a dark or gloomy output and combines aspects of horror and romance to be included within its story combining both supernatural and real aspects	53
6680405319	hamartia	A hero's tragic flaw that leads to their downfall	54
6680405320	heroic couplet	a pair of rhymed lines with iambic pentameter	55
6680405321	Horatian satire	Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist Horace, playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor	56
6680405322	hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence.	57
6680405323	hyperbole	exaggerated statements.	58
6680405324	imagery	Figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas, usually creating visual representations in the reader's mind	59
6680405325	in medias res	"in the midst of things"/in the middle of things. The story begins in the middle of a crisis or crucial situation that is related to a chain of events.	60
6680405326	indirect characterization	-showing a character's personality through thoughts, speech, actions, appearance, and effect	61
6680405327	internal conflict	a struggle within the mind of a character; the resloution creates the plots suspense	62
6680405328	Italian sonnet	A sonnet with octave rhyming such as abba abba or a sestet with any rhyme scheme such as cdc dcd	63
6680405329	Juvenalian satire	Bitter and ironic criticism of current persons and institutions that is filled with anger and pessimism	64
6680405330	litote	An understatement that expresses a positive by using a negative (usually with double negatives)	65
6680405331	lyric poem	A poem that speaks of personal and emtional feelings with a song-like quality	66
6680405332	magical realism	a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy	67
6680405333	metaphor	Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.	68
6680405334	meter	pattern of stressed and unstressed syallables	69
6680405335	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	70
6680405336	motif	an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.	71
6680405337	narrative poem	Poetry that tells a story, includes epics and ballads	72
6680405338	octave	a poem or stanza of eight lines	73
6680405339	ode	a lyrical stanza written in praise for a person, event, or thing	74
6680405340	omniscient	a literary technique of writing narrative in third person in which a narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story.	75
6680405341	onomatopoeia	a word that imitates the natural sounds of thing	76
6680405342	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictionary terms are used in conjunction	77
6680405343	paradox	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but has hidden truth	78
6680405344	parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	79
6680405345	parody	a humorous imitation of a serious work	80
6680405346	pastoral poem	works that idealize rural life and landscapes (simple life)	81
6680405347	peripeteia	a reversal of circumstances, or turning point in a story	82
6680405348	personification	a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.	83
6680405349	protagonist	the main character in any story, such as aliterary work or drama	84
6680405350	psalm	a sacredsong, hymn, or poem	85
6680405351	quatrain	a verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme	86
6680405352	refrain	a repeated line or number of lines in a poem , typically at the end of each verse	87
6680405353	repetition	a word, phrase, full sentence, or poetical line repeated to emphasie its significance in the entire text	88
6680405354	rhyme scheme	A pattern of rhyme that typically manifests at the end of lines in poetry	89
6680405355	rhythm	Recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables	90
6680405356	romance	Tale based on legend, chivalric love and adventure, or the supernatural	91
6680405357	sestina	A type of poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines.It does not rhyme and the end word of the poem repeat.	92
6680405358	similie	comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"	93
6680405359	soliloquy	An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.	94
6680405360	stanza	a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme	95
6680405361	suspense	The feling of anxiety or excitment about what might happen next or an upcomming event.	96
6680405362	syllogism	starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific.	97
6680405363	symbol	Signifying ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different than their literal definitions	98
6680405364	synecdoche	Part of something is used to represent the whole of something in a description of that object.	99
6680405365	synesthesia	describes things using more than one sense (sight, smell, etc.)	100
6680405366	syntax	words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.	101
6680405367	terza rima	rhyming verse stanza form consisting of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme; often in iambic pantemeter. aba bcb cdc.	102
6680405368	theme	a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly	103
6680405369	tone	The writer's attitude toward the attitude and/or the audience	104
6680405370	tragic flaw	The writer's attitude toward the attitude and/or the audience	105
6680405371	villanelle	19 line poem with 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains made up of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain at the end with the refrains being the first and third lines and alternating at the end of the tercets and both repeated at the end of the quatrain	106