WCS AP Literature and Composition: Lit Terms 1 Flashcards

7406577764	Allegory	A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or a personified abstraction	0
7406577765	Alliteration	The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables	1
7406577766	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work	2
7406577767	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses	3
7406577768	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	4
7406577769	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief	5
7406577770	Appeals to... authority, emotion, logic	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason	6
7406577771	Apostrophe	An address or invocation to something inanimate	7
7406577772	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words	8
7406577773	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose	9
7406577774	Attitude	The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader	10
7406577775	Begging the question	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question	11
7406577776	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic	12
7406577777	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second	13