AP Literature Terms Review Flashcards

8438221409	Dramatic Irony	Expectations are different from reality	0
8438229896	Simile	Comparing something with like or as	1
8438235192	Free Verse	Form of poetry with no rules whatsoever	2
8438238764	Satire	Ridiculing Flaws	3
8438245783	Juxtaposition	Contrasting two things side by side for emphasis and effect	4
8438249708	Paradox	Apparent contradiction that actually makes sense	5
8438254044	Foreshadowing	Hinting about an event that may happen in the future for dramatic effect	6
8438257016	Repetition	Repeating for literary effect	7
8438260566	Personification	Attributing human qualities to inanimate objects	8
8438266625	Rhetorical devices	Methods and tools of persuasion that a rhetorical discourse should consist of.	9
8438286171	Epigram	A witty remark	10
8438288453	Symbol	Own meaning and a separate meaning	11
8438300398	Figurative Language	Figures of Speech	12
8438306975	Imagery	Language that appeals to the senses	13
8438324419	Archetype	Human pattern that occurs in Literature	14
8438331061	Rhetorical Question	Not meant to be answered	15
8438334838	Foil	A character who contrast with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.	16
8438413905	Syntax	Sentence Structure	17
8438434306	Litotes	Understatements for intensification by ignoring the contrary	18
8438522935	Syllogism	a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific.	19
8438544136	Quintessential	A perfect example	20
8438552949	Sonnet	A 14 line poem	21
8438563290	Metaphor	Direct comparison with no word inbetween	22
8438567251	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds	23
8438573228	Allegory	Extended metaphor	24
8438608980	Comparison to opposing viewpoints	Acknowledgment of arguments and apeals	25
8438648255	Stylistic Maturity	Growth of a writer's or authors writing and its advancement	26
8438676957	Allusion	A Reference to something in history	27
8438689509	Euphemism	Polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or harsh.	28
8438721152	Iambic Pentameter	An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	29
8438836393	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds	30
8438842326	Ambiguity	An idea or situation that can be interpretated in multiple ways	31
8438853133	Apostrophe	When a speaker directly addresses someone or something not present in the poem	32
8438864601	Connotation	A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing in which it describes explicitly	33
8438869060	Denotation	Dictionary definition of a word	34
8438882341	Diction	A writers choice of words	35
8439166269	Irony	When there are two contradicting meanings of the same situation, event, image,phrase, or story	36
8439196969	Hyperbole	An extreme exageration	37
8439306467	Motif	Any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story	38
8439318013	Narrative Pace	The speed at which the story is told	39
8439325141	Tone	The speakers attitude shown in the work	40
8439345826	Consonance	The repetitive sounds produced by consonants with a sentence or phrase	41
8439361497	Understatement	Intentionally making a situation seem less important	42
8439364015	Parallel Structure	the repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.	43
8439400932	Protagonist	Main character in a literary work	44
8439405178	"Defend,challenge, or qualify"	Ways to attack a specific prompt	45