Literary Terms - AP Literature Flashcards
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| 5734758054 | Oxymoron | Jumbo Shrimp |  | 0 |
| 8574551558 | Omniscient Narrator | Third person point of view where the narrator is like god, can see into all the characters' minds and knows what is going on. | 1 | |
| 8574568110 | Doggerel | "There was an Old Man of Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. His daughter, called Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket." | 2 | |
| 8574575819 | Dramatic Irony | *Bob gets murdered* Steve, Bob's friend in a later scene: Oh boy, I can't wait to see my friend Bob alive and well! |  | 3 |
| 8574588199 | Analogy | Just as a dog chases squirrels until it has it up a tree, the police chase criminals until they have the criminals caught. |  | 4 |
| 8574598907 | Gothic Novel | Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" |  | 5 |
| 8574613645 | Hyperbole | I could eat a horse right about now |  | 6 |
| 8574618250 | Genre | Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery, etc. |  | 7 |
| 8574622139 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall (Another term from Aristotle's discussion of tragedy). |  | 8 |
| 8574633816 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. |  | 9 |
| 8574649986 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Typically slow, heavy, and melancholy. |  | 10 |
| 8574655797 | Apostrophe | Bill turned to the mop and said, "Wow, you've been working really hard, I can't believe we mopped this whole floor. You need to take a break, I'll set you up against the wall. I', glad I'm the only one home or else people would think that I'm crazy for talking to an inanimate object." |  | 11 |
| 8574675761 | Colloquialism | What are these phrases examples of? go nuts - go insane or be very angry to bamboozle - to deceive gonna - going to | 12 | |
| 8574680754 | Caricature | What is this an example of? Her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me. Her ears were smoking, and her hair was on fire. Mom was mad. |  | 13 |
| 8574690086 | Euphemism | What is this an example of? We are sorry to say that your grandfather passed away earlier today |  | 14 |
| 8574708914 | Epics | What are these examples of? The Odyssey, the Iliad, and Paradise Lost. |  | 15 |
| 8574715008 | Metonym | What is this an example of? "Could you lend me a hand?" (Instead of "Could you help me?") |  | 16 |
| 8574724496 | Nemsis | Voldemort is THIS to Harry Potter |  | 17 |
| 8574740295 | Melodrama | Cheesy theater (hero is very good, villain is mean and rotten) | 18 | |
| 8574752481 | Simile/Metaphor | Both are a comparison or analogy; One uses like or as, and the other says something is something else. |  | 19 |
| 8574767581 | Neologism/Coinage | New/invented word on the spot. |  | 20 |
| 8574783290 | Irony | What is this an example of? An ambulance driver speeds to the scene of a road accident. The victim isn't badly hurt until the ambulance driver whips around a corner and runs over the victim's legs, not realizing she'd crawled to the center of the road. | 21 | |
| 8574789867 | Lament | What is this an example of? Summer's thousand shades of green Roses cruel scent Show no sorrow at your death |  | 22 |
| 8574792409 | Implicit | Something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. | 23 | |
| 8574800376 | Interior Monologue | Writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head |  | 24 |
| 8574804797 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. | 25 | |
| 8574809420 | Lampoon | A satire. | 26 | |
| 8574820067 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 27 | |
| 8574824393 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. |  | 28 |
| 8574829995 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | 29 | |
| 8574835959 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation. |  | 30 |
| 8574843520 | Aphorism | Short and usually witty saying. |  | 31 |
| 8574849346 | Anachronism | Misplaced in time. |  | 32 |
| 8574868250 | Black Humor | What is this an example of? "The Truman Show" finding comedy in completely exploiting someone's life or "American Psycho" discovering the humorous parts of the life of a psychopath. Serious topics but with comedic factors. | 33 | |
| 8574873405 | Bombast | What is this an example of? Words like alacrity, ebullient, embezzlement, evanescent are all pretentious, and exaggerated speech. " I'm very fractious today." Someone using this kind of language is said to be... |  | 34 |
| 8574889311 | Bathos/Pathos | What is this an example of? The movie Marley and Me would evoke strong emotions in the viewer/reader. |  | 35 |
| 8574903530 | Foreshadowing | What is this an example of? They clipped along nicely on the tiny, fixer-upper of a boat, but there was a storm brewing on the horizon. |  | 36 |
| 8574909467 | Free Verse | What is this an example of? Foiled again. Rough weather on the horizon. Elect a nice lady. Enact a small play of words. Very Cold. Extremities fall off. Raise kids. Silence. End | 37 | |
| 8574912631 | Farce | Extremely broad humor. | 38 | |
| 8574918833 | Feminine Rhyme | Rhyming the last two syllables of words. | 39 | |
| 8574925901 | Foot | Basic rhyming unit of poetry, usually two to three syllables. | 40 | |
| 8574936644 | First Person Narrator | Narrator is speaking from a first person point of view, usually a character in the story. |  | 41 |