AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

7765469795	Adjectives	A word that describes someone or something.	0
7765474650	Allegory	A story in which people things and actions represent an idea or generalization about life.	1
7765491968	Aside	A dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud.	2
7765505432	Assonance	a repetition of vowel sounds without consonant repetition.	3
7765513770	Ballad	Poem in verse form that tells a story	4
7765541063	Clause	A group of related words that has both a subject and a predicate.	5
7765552874	Climax	the high point	6
7765556588	Conflict	the struggle between opposing forces	7
7765561476	connotation	the attitudes and feelings associated with a word	8
7765568517	denotation	the literal dictionary definition	9
7765574720	Description	how the author creates a scene	10
7765582714	Dialect	a particular variety of language spoken in one place	11
7765597712	Diction	an authors choice of words based on their correctness	12
7765605255	Discourse	formal extended expression of though on a subject	13
7765613298	Epic	a long narrative that tells of deeds and adventures of a hero	14
7765622275	Essay	brief work of nonfiction that offer an opinion on a subject	15
7765637011	Extended metaphor	a comparison of unlike things that is long	16
7765642947	fable	a short simple story that teaches a lesson	17
7765648540	fairy tale	a story written for children that includes magic	18
7765676853	figurative language	language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning	19
7765690159	foreshadowing	a writers use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later.	20
7765699248	Genre	a category of literature	21
7765704525	Homograph	one of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning	22
7765732568	Hyperbole	an intentional exaggeration for effect	23
7765748864	Idiom	a phrase that means something different from the words	24
7765759782	Independent clause	presents a complete thought and can alone as a sentence	25
7765765834	Irony	the contrast between expectation and reality	26
7765775453	Jargon	Language used in certain profession or by a particular group of people	27
7765783945	Main Character	leading character	28
7765790886	main idea	overall thought or position	29
7765796115	metaphor	figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 different things but have one thing in common	30
7765807114	Meter	in poetry the re-occurrence or rhythmic pattern	31
7765817969	Monologue	* soliloquy	32
7765830378	Mood	the feeling the writer creates	33
7765836951	Moral	the lesson of a story	34
7765840029	Myth	a traditional story that explains the way the world is	35
7765848656	narrator	person telling the story	36
7765851272	noun	a word that is the name of something	37
7765855202	novel	an extended work of fiction	38
7765861976	onomatopoeia	a word that sounds like its meaning	39
7765866718	oral	spoken word	40
7765869254	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself	41
7765875521	parody	a work that mocks another work	42
7765881510	Prose	writing or speaking in the normal way	43
7765886564	Protagonist	the main character	44
7765890116	pun	a joke that is created by words	45
7765902984	Resolution	when the problem is solved	46
7765907327	Rhetoric	the art of effective expression	47
7765918728	Rhythm	the pattern of stressed syllables	48
7765932814	Rising action	the events of the story that move the plot forward	49
7765951701	Satire	a literary technique ridiculing to improve society	50
7765959605	Scaffolding	assistance by a teacher or peer	51
7765968759	Script	the text of a play	52
7765973602	Sentence	a group of words expressing one or more thoughts	53
7765983132	setting	the time and place	54
7765983133	simile	a comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as	55
7765994147	soliloquy	a speech in dramatic work when the character speaks aloud	56
7765999718	sonnet	a poem consisting of fourteen line of iambic pentameter	57
7766008259	source	a text used for information	58
7766013325	symbol	a thing that represents something beyond itself	59
7766018543	symbolism	the heavy use of symbols	60
7766023555	syntax	the way words are put together to make sentences	61
7766031033	tall tale	an American story characterized by exaggeration	62
7766040237	Text complexity band	a range of text difficulty corresponding to grade spans within the standards	63
7766051282	textual evidence	same as evidence	64
7766055366	theme	a central idea that is represented in a person or action and image	65
7766066286	Thesis	the attitude of the writer who will support it	66
7766075195	tone	an expression of a writers attitude towards a subject	67
7766091803	understatement	a technique of creating emphasis by saying less than is true	68
7766102518	verse	a unit of poetry	69
7766112287	voice	the order of words that indicates whether the subject is acted or being acted on	70