AP Literature Terms Flashcards

7602710763	Five Branches of Philosophy	MEEPA Metaphysics: existence Epistemology: how we know about universe Ethics: how do we act in this world Politics: ethics applied to group of people Aesthetics: beauty	0
7602764581	Great Chain of Being	Every existing thing has its place in a divinely planned hierarchical order.	1
7602788849	Doctrine of Correspondences	humans are microcosms that reflect the structure of the macrocosm	2
7602816294	Four Major Themes	Human Nature Nature of Society Human Freedom Ethics	3
7602835814	Six types of Irony	VCRDSS Verbal - what is said is not what is meant Cosmic - falsely believe in freewill Romantic - audience is misled Dramatic - audience has more info Situational what happens is not what was expected Structural - structure does not match purpose	4
7602973040	Metonym	replace by association	5
7602976237	Synecdoche	when a part is made to represent the whole, or a whole to represent the part	6
7603036868	Hero Cycle	Departure Initiation Return	7
7603072263	Three Types of Poetry and Subtypes	NARRATIVE: -Ballad // song-like -Epic // hero of poem embodies the values of the poet's culture DRAMATIC: -monologue -dialogue LYRIC: -Elegy // laments a loss -Ode // dignifies noble subject -Sonnet -->Shakespearean//3 quatrains, couplet -->Italian//octave, sestet	8
7603114087	Stanza	group of lines that work together to present an idea	9
7603119455	Enjambment	when the physical end of a line of poetry does not match the grammatical end of the line	10
7603127154	End Stopped Line	Physical end of a line of poetry matches the grammatical end of a line of poetry	11
7603136115	Concrete Poetry	When the shape of the poem enhances the meaning of the poem	12
7603141196	Poetic Shift	When a poem moves from tone to tone	13
7603149508	Unstressed Syllable	makes voice go down	14
7603154189	Stressed Syllable	makes voice go up	15
7603156960	Scansion	when you read through a poem to analyze its rhythm	16
7603244730	Four types of Setting	Sensuous World Time and Chronology Social Environment Emotional Environment	17
7603303046	Four Character Types	Round, Flat, Static, Dynamic	18
7603326051	Archetype	Symbol that transcends time and culture	19
7603393374	Sign	object, picture, or word that signifies something else but with no deeper meaning	20
7603399492	Symbol	object, place, character or event that signifies something other than itself	21
7603421814	Plot Structure	Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement	22
7603492285	Four Points of View	!st person 2nd person 3rd person omniscient 3rd person subjective	23
7603630510	Unobtrusive Narrator	no commentary or bias from the narrator	24
7603634731	Unreliable Narrator	seems trustworthy at first, but has audience questioning the validity of the story	25
7946746741	Zeitgeist	the general philosophic, religious, cultural, and artistic climate of an era.	26
7946753065	Dialectical Clash	Two opposing views that clash Theis: main idea Antithesis: new main idea Synthesis: combination of the ideas	27
7946782787	Renaissance	Rebirth; renewal of interest in and study of classical antiquity Great Chain of Being Humanism Imitation Reformation *Doctrine of Correspondences	28
7946820340	Humanism	regarded humans as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings	29
7946831577	Imitation (Renaissance)	it was the task of the writer to translate for present readers the moral vision of the past by "imitating" great works	30
7946841247	Reformation (on literature)	Protestants stretched the need for all believers to read the bible. The Bible became a renewed source of literary inspiration	31
7946856753	The Wheel of Fortune	The wheel belongs to the Goddess Fortuna, who spins the wheel at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel	32
7946911304	Enlightenment	"the mirror" reasoning, interacting with the world but limiting imagination, scientific, did not want religion to interfere with the way they view the world	33
7946926537	Romanticism	"the lantern" interacting with the world around you through imagination, creativity, religion as a source of inspiration	34
7946960508	Conceit	a controlling piece of figurative language	35
7946979106	Anadiplosis	take the word from the end of sentence and repeat it at the beginning of the next sentence	36
7946984928	Antithesis	Redefining a word or a concept showing two things in contrast	37
7946989274	Anaphora	The repetition of beginning phrases	38
7947010078	Polysyndeton	placing a conjunction between every element in a series	39
7947016786	Asyndeton	no conjunction between any elements in a series	40
7947021436	Chiasmus	form of parallelism "X" "you have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man	41
7947032680	Apothegmatic	a very short sentence surrounded by longer sentences, dramatic ending	42
7947043903	Periodic Sentence	Sentence that is not grammatically correct until the very end of the sentence	43
7947047924	Loose Sentence	sentence that is grammatically correct until the end of the sentence	44
7947055442	Juxtaposition	putting two things side by side to compare and contrast	45
7947059129	Litotes	Negation of a positive "that was no easy journey" "it wasn't a bad day"	46
7947079197	Zeugma	when the verb in a sentence applies to more than one noun "John lost his coat and his temper."	47
7947112331	Kenning	two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors "whale road" (represents the sea)	48
7947195135	Apostrophe	when the speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present	49
7947201534	Aside	a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage *used to give the audience special information	50
7947211079	Allusion	writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.	51
7947218157	Paradox	a statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow	52
7947239489	Literal Imagery	When the descriptions are supposed to be taken as reality	53
7947242182	Figurative Imagery	when a description is also supposed to be taken metaphorically and symbolically	54
7947253183	Soliloquy	when a character, alone on stage, delivers a speech	55
7947283846	Metaphysical Conceit	a conceit which draws a shocking or unconventional comparison	56
7947288945	Carpe Diem	seize the day	57
7947297745	Canto	a major division of poetry, usually containing multiple stanzas and normally designated by roman numerals	58
7947323987	Assonance	repetition of vowel sounds between dissimilar consonant sounds "two turtles burning"	59
7947337076	Consonance	repetition of consonant sounds by dissimilar vowel sounds "Rattle the kettle"	60
7947358701	Deus Ex Machina	Machine of the Gods when an author brings in a device to solve a problem but it doesn't organically come from the plot	61
8476304621	The Human Condition	the state of being human	62
8476318071	Teleological	a philosophical belief that there is a purpose to time and the universe. Hegel	63
8476344876	Puritanism	"city upon a hill" government based upon religion Predestination	64
8476356297	Predestination	what people are going to do in their lives has already been determined	65
8476364148	Deism	God created the universe humans are free agents who control their own destinies no holy trinity God as a "giant clock-maker"	66
8476387974	4 Categories of Existentialism	Choice and Commitment Subjectivity Moral Individualism Dread and Anxiety	67
8476425185	Existence Precedes Essence	The idea that a human can develop their essence through their actions. They create their own values and give meaning to life in a meaningless world.	68
8476440600	Fundamentalists	belief literally in religious text	69
8476445186	Liberal Believers	Religious text contains metaphors and stories but do not represent realistic truth. Still believe in religion	70
8476459666	Scholars/ Non-Believers	Do not believe in religion	71
8476474908	Political Nihilism	belief that you should do away with all forms of government	72
8476482289	Philosophical Nihilism	there is no God, atheistic, there is nothing, we are all just animals	73
8476499161	Nietzsche 3 periods that civilization has gone through	Pre-moral stage: master morality, most powerful takes control Moral Stage: slave morality, everyone is equal under bigger idea Supra-moral Stage: rise of the ubermensch	74
8476533851	Ubermensch	a man who shapes the world based upon their own moralities in a meaningless world	75
8476545752	Trope	twisting of language and syntax to give words a different meaning	76
8476549807	Metaphor	comparing two things without using "like" or "as"	77
8476558864	Simile	comparing two things using "like" or "as"	78
8476566760	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	79
8476585149	Understatement	the force of a descriptive statement is less than one would expect	80
8476590867	Personification	giving life-like descriptions to something non-living	81
8476599853	Synesthesia	confusion of the senses "stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."	82
8476611487	Connotation	a word's cultural and emotional attachments	83
8476614801	Denotation	dictionary definition of a word	84
8476621064	Poetic Diction	when someone's level of writing reaches a level of poetry	85
8476628194	Onomatopoeia	when a word sounds like what it is ex: crunch, zip, buzz	86
8476639958	Cliche	overused expression that has lost its power	87
8476645837	Euphemism	softening of language used to cover up reality or shed light on a new reality	88
8476654910	Pun	a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings	89
8476676622	Anachronism	something that does not fit the time and place	90
8476733918	Motif	repeated element in a work of art	91
8476740094	Oxymoron	two dissimilar words next to each other	92
8476760361	Feet/foot	a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables	93
8476769212	Meter	the number of feet in a line of poetry	94
8476772742	Blank Verse	Un-rhymed iambic pentameter	95
8476782913	Iambic Pentameter	a line of poetry that has 5 feet and its feet are iambs	96
8476793495	Caesura	a break or pause in the middle of the line of poetry	97
8476918219	Internal Rhyme	when a word rhymes in the middle of line of poetry	98
8476949738	Epistolary	when a work is told through letters	99
8476970858	Utopic	perfect society	100
8476974583	Dystopic	exact opposite of utopic	101
8476988732	Frame Story	a novel in which you have one story within another story (Frankenstein)	102
8476999939	Point of View	1st person - character tells 2nd person - places reader into the narrative 3rd person - omniscient: all-knowing limited	103
8477020058	Atmosphere	created by the sensuous world, the emotional reaction the reader and characters have to the setting	104
8477039334	Round Character	complex character	105
8477039451	Flat Character	a stereotypical character	106
8477046722	Static Character	character who does not change	107
8477048454	Dynamic Character	character who does change throughout the story	108
8477056266	FOIL character	character who has similar attributes to the main character, but one primary difference that highlights a characteristic of the main character	109
8489811080	Dualism	the belief that humans have two natures: 1. Physical body 2. Spiritual soul	110
8489909178	Collective Unconscious	the idea that humans have common experiences registered as common images we call archetypes	111
8489937654	Tone	the author's attitude toward the subject in which he/she is writing about	112
8489963039	Alliteration	repetition of the beginning sounds of words	113
8489973022	In Medias Re	a story that begins in the middle of the plot and goes backwards to show how it got to this point	114
8489984174	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	115
8489989611	Pastoral	Religious story	116
8490016396	Anagnorisis	character makes a critical discovery	117
8490018655	Hamartia	a fatal error that the protagonist makes	118
8490023135	Hubris	excessive pride of the protagonist that ultimately brings about their downfall	119
8490026029	Nemesis	punishment for acts of hubris	120
8490030166	Peripeteia	shift of the protagonist's fortune from good to bad	121
8490033562	Character Arc	way to describe the changes of characters in a novel	122
9081512289	Modernism	A time of great change Movement into big cities but increased sense of isolation Break with tradition Decay and alienation	123
9081553915	Free Verse	poetry that has no meter or rhyme scheme	124
9081571513	Refrain	a phrase or line that is repeated frequently throughout a poem	125