AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

9559743225	Accent	Refers to the stressed portion of a word	0
9559743226	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbol meaning outside of the tale itself	1
9559743227	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds	2
9559743228	Allusion	A reference to another work or famous figure	3
9559743229	Anachronism	A misplacement in time	4
9559743230	Analogy	A comparison, usually involving different things	5
9559743231	Antagonist	The force or character opposing the protagonist	6
9559743232	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to	7
9559743233	Anticlimax	When an action produced far smaller results than one has been led to expect	8
9559743234	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman	9
9559743235	Archaism	The use of deliberately old-fashioned language	10
9559743236	Archetype	A pattern, symbol, or other element that recurs in far-flung and mythic literature	11
9559743237	Assonance	The repeated use of vowel sounds	12
9559743238	Atmosphere	The emotional tone/feeling or background that surrounds a scene, poem, or work	13
9559743239	Ballad	A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically having a naive folksy quality	14
9559743240	Bathos	When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every moment	15
9559743241	Blank verse	Poetry in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, usually	16
9559743242	Bombast	Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	17
9559743243	Bildungsroman	A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	18
9559743244	Caesura	A song pause build into the middle of a poetic line	19
9559743245	Cacophony	Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds	20
9559743246	Cadence	The beat of rhythm of a poem in a general sense	21
9559743247	Canto	The name for a sectional division in a long work of poetry	22
9559743248	Caricature	A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality	23
9559743249	Catharsis	The cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage	24
9559743250	Chorus	The group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it	25
9559743251	Coinage (neologism)	When a new word is invented on the spot	26
9559743252	Colloquialism	A word or phrases that is used in conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English	27
9559743253	Conceit	Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines	28
9559743254	Denotation and Connotation	The __________ of a word it its literal meaning. The _________ are everything else that the word might suggest or imply	29
9559743255	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds within words	30
9559743256	Couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	31
9559743257	Denouement	The final part of a narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved	32
9559743258	Deus ex machina	The unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel	33
9559743259	Dead metaphor	An implied figurative comparison that through frequent use no longer evokes a picture	34
9559743260	Decorum	In order to observe this, a character's speech must be styled according to their social situation, and in accordance with the occasion	35
9559743261	Didactic	Instructive, intent on imparting a moral, something excessively so	36
9559743262	Diction	A writer's selection of words	37
9559743263	Dirge	A song for the dead	38
9559743264	Dissonance	The grating of incompatible sounds	39
9559743265	Doggerel	Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme	40
9559743266	Dramatic irony	When the audience knows something the character in the drama do not	41
9559743267	Dramatic monologue	When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	42
9559743268	Elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner	43
9559743269	Eulogy	Remarks in praise of someone who has died	44
9559743270	End-rhyme	Rhyme at the ends of poetic lines	45
9559743271	End-stopped	Poetic lines whose sense concludes as the line concludes	46
9559743272	Anthropomorphism	When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation	47
9559743273	Enjambment	The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause	48
9559743274	Epic	A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style	49
9559743275	Epitaph	Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place	50
9559743276	Epigraph	A quotation at the beginning of a piece or writing	51
9559743277	Euphemism	A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality	52
9559743278	Euphony	When sounds blend harmoniously	53
9559743279	Farce	A funny play or a comedy	54
9559743280	Feminine rhyme	Rhymes involving words of one stressed and then one slack or unstressed syllable	55
9559743281	Foil	A secondary character whose purpose is the highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast	56
9559743282	Foot	The basic unit of measurement of meter, usually containing one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable	57
9559743283	Foreshadowing	An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later	58
9559743284	Free verse	Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical platter	59
9559743285	Genre	A subcategory of literature	60
9559743286	Gothic novel	An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting	61
9559743287	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall	62
9559743288	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement	63
9559743289	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things." When a narrative begin in the middle of the action	64
9559743290	Irony	A discrepancy between what is states and what is implied	65
9559743291	Verbal irony	Saying one thing while meaning the opposite	66
9559743292	Cosmic irony	When fate dashes the protagonist's false hopes	67
9559743293	Situational irony	When events turn out to be the opposite of what one would reasonably expect	68
9559743294	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one	69
9559743295	Lampoon	A satire	70
9559743296	Lyric	A type of poem that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world	71