AP Literature Vocab List One Flashcards

4888185709	language describing qualities that are rarefied and theoretical	abstract diction	0
4888185710	a complete narrative that can also be applied to a parallel set of situations that may be political, moral, religious, or philosophical	allegory	1
4888185711	the repetition of identical consonant sounds in close proximity	alliteration	2
4888187620	unacknowledged references and quotations. Authors assume that readers will recognize the original sources and relate their meaning to the new concept	allusion	3
4888189248	Aristotle's term describing the point in a play when a character experiences understanding	anagnorisis	4
4888189249	the repetition of the same word or phrase throughout a work	anaphora	5
4888189250	characters who set off or highlight the protagonist and who provide insight on the action	ancillary characters	6
4888190707	the person, idea, force, or general set of circumstances opposing the protagonist	antagonist	7
4888190708	a rhetorical device of opposition in which one idea or word is established, and then the opposite idea or word is expressed	antithesis	8
4888192931	the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; also a speech to an abstraction	apostrophe	9