AP English Language Literary Terms Flashcards

6697090263	Allegory	a work that functions on a symbolic level	0
6697090264	Alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	1
6697090265	Allusion	a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	2
6697090266	Analogy	drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect	3
6697090267	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	4
6697090268	Anecdote	short story of an amusing or interesting event	5
6697090269	Antecedent	a preceding occurrence or cause or event	6
6697090270	Antithesis	an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses	7
6697090271	Aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	8
6697090272	Apostrophe	a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent	9
6697090273	Argument	a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true	10
6697090274	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	11
6697090275	Asyndeton	Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. Asyndeton takes the form of X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. Ex: "Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines." Marine Corps Ex: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." John F. Kennedy	12
6697090276	Attitude	the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience	13
6697090277	Character	person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work	14
6697090278	Chiasmus	Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. It is often short and summarizes a main idea.	15
6697090279	Cliche	an overused saying or idea	16
6697090280	Colloquialism	characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech	17
6697090281	Connotation	a meaning or association suggested by a word beyond its definition	18
6697090282	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	19
6697090283	Deduction	reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)	20
6697090284	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	21
6697090285	Dependent Clause	a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb	22
6697090286	Description	the purpose of this rhetorical mode is to re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that being described; sometimes an author engages all five senses.	23
6697090287	Diction	the author's choice of words	24
6697090288	Direct Object	the object that receives the direct action of the verb	25
6697090289	Dramatic Irony	occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening	26
6697090290	Ethos	the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	27
6697090291	Euphemism	an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	28
6697090292	Extended Metaphor	the comparison between two things is continued beyond the first point of comparison; this extends and deepens a description.	29
6697090293	Genre	type or category of literary work (e.g., poetry, essay, short story, novel, drama)	30
6697090294	Homily	a sermon, or a moralistic lecture	31
6697090295	Cacophony	harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance	32
6697090296	Hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	33
6697090297	Independent Clause	a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence	34
6697090298	Indirect Object	the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb	35
6697090299	Invective	An intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack	36
6697090300	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	37
6697090301	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity	38
6697090302	Metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)	39
6697090303	Mood	a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude	40
6697090304	Narration	the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence	41
6697090305	Narrative	consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story	42
6697090306	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!	43
6697090307	Oxymoron	a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms	44
6697090308	Paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	45
6697090309	Parallelism	refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	46
6697090310	Parody	a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way	47
6697090311	Pathos	quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness	48
6697090312	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	49
6697090313	Point of View	the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient)	50
6697090314	Predicate	tells what the subject is or does	51
6697090315	Predicate Adjective	follows a linking verb and describes the subject	52
6697090316	Predicate Noun	follows a linking verb and defines or renames the subject	53
6697090317	Prounoun/Antecedent	the antecedent is the word the pronoun replaces	54
6697090318	Prose	ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse	55
6697090319	Repetition	sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzaz are repeated for emphasis	56
6697090320	Rhetoric	the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion	57
6697090321	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	58
6697090322	Satire	language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule	59
6697090323	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	60
6697090324	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	61
6697090325	Subject	tells whom or what the sentence is about	62
6697090326	Syllogism	deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises	63
6697090327	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	64
6697090328	Synecdoche	using a part of something to represent the whole thing	65
6697090329	Syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.	66
6697090330	Theme	central idea of a work of literature	67
6697090331	Thesis	an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument	68
6697090332	Third Person Limited	point of view which represents the feelings of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters	69
6697090333	Tone	the author's attitude toward the subject or audience, either stated or implied	70
6697090334	Understatement	the opposite of exaggeration; it is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended	71
6697090335	Verbal Irony	in this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning	72
6697090336	Voice	can refer to two different areas of writing; one refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive); the second refers to the total "sound" of the writer's style.	73