AP Literature Flashcards

9905448325	paradox	a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth	0
9905448326	enjambent	a poetic statement that spans more than one line; their sense is not complete without the following line(s)	1
9905453223	surrealism	a literary and artistic movement whose proponents view the unconscious as a source of imaginative expression and seek to liberate the mind	2
9905454775	apostrophe	a literary device in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent	3
9905457483	catharsis	the emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience.	4
9905459837	conceit	a figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things	5
9905461749	idyll	a narrative work, usually short, that depicts and exalts pastoral scenes and themes	6
9905463156	lyric	a brief, imaginative and melodic poem characterized by the fervent expression of personal feelings of a single, first person speaker	7
9905464595	leitmotif	an image or phrase that recurs throughout a work, each time evoking past associations in such a way as to be a unifying element	8
9905466382	hegemony	the dominance or dominant influence of one nation, group, or class over another or others.	9
9905468269	cliche	an expression used so often (and so often out of context) that it has lost its original impact	10
9905469977	aubade	a lyric or song delivered at dawn, generally involving lovers who must part	11
9905471040	aphorism	a concise, pointed statement that purports to reveal a truth or principle.	12
9905475529	omniscient	point of view that permits the author to present not only external details but also inner thoughts of all the characters of a work.	13
9905477230	stream of conciousness	a narrative mode featuring an individual's subjective, ongoing, and often jumbled mental observation and commentary	14