AP Literature Terms Flashcards

8160969485	Epitaph	A short text on a tombstone/plaque to honor the dead	0
8160969486	Enigma	a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand	1
8160969487	Heroic Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter	2
8160969488	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which one part is used as a whole (new set of wheel:represents a car)	3
8160969489	Paradox	Phrases or ideas that contradict	4
8160969490	Oxymoron	Two words back to back that's contradict one another (jumbo shrimp, deafening silence)	5
8160969491	Antithesis	A statement that joins opposing or contradictory ideas	6
8160969492	Dramatic irony	When the audience has more knowledge than a character on stage	7
8160969493	Verbal irony	Saying one thing but meaning another	8
8160969494	Irony of situation	When you EXPECT one thing or event to happen and OPPOSITE happens	9
8160969495	Pathetic Fallacy	Human qualities/emotions are given to inanimate objects in nature	10
8160969496	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. For satirical or comedic effect	11
8160969497	Flashback	a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.	12
8160969498	Motif	A repeated element that usually has a symbolic significance in a story	13
8160969499	Tragic Hero	a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction	14
8160969500	Epiphany	A character's transformative moment of realization	15
8160969501	Exposition	The contextual background information at the beginning of literary work	16
8160969502	Foil	A contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctly	17
8160969503	Requiem	An act, a song, a service, or a remembrance for a person who has died	18
8160969504	Alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	19
8160969505	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	20