AP Literature Flashcards
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| 10960110428 | Allegory | Story or Poem or Picture that can have a hidden meaning. EX: Political Cartoons | 0 | |
| 10960115807 | Allusion | Expression made to call something to the reader attention without being explicit. EX: Different areas cultural background may determine the areas names | 1 | |
| 10960123499 | Apostrophe | Writer or Speaker backs away from reality and speaks on an imaginary character. EX: Oh, Time, has no will. | 2 | |
| 10960131311 | Connotation | Idea or feeling that relates to another meaning besides its literal one. EX: Illegal | 3 | |
| 10960144425 | Denotation | Literally what the word means. EX: Splash | 4 | |
| 10960149945 | Diction | Authors choice of wording or phrases in their speech/writing. EX: A characters diction may determine their background. | 5 | |
| 10960155378 | Euphemism | Indirect word or expression that isn't to blunt but refers to something unpleasant. EX: Pushing Daises | 6 | |
| 10960163663 | Foreshadowing | When the author hints at an upcoming event or other in the story. EX: East of Eden hints a lot at Cathy murdering people | 7 | |
| 10960169971 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated claims not to be taken literally. EX: Grandparents as old as dirt | 8 | |
| 10960174845 | Imagery | Usage of figurative language to help the reader depict an object or scene in a story very well. EX: The counter tops were of polished granite and the lights dimmed very low. | 9 | |
| 10960183959 | Irony | Figure of speech where words are used in a way that they mean something else. EX: Silence speaks louder than words | 10 | |
| 10960192569 | Metaphor | Figure of speech which makes a hidden comparison between things very different from one another. EX: The papers stacked mountain high. | 11 | |
| 10960198070 | Mood | Making readers feel a certain way through descriptions and words. EX: The people mindlessly grazed to their jobs with no feelings at all | 12 | |
| 10960206120 | Simile | Figure of speech that compares two things and shows similarities using the words 'like' or 'as'. EX: The shoes were as expensive as gold | 13 | |
| 10960225080 | Metonymy | Figure of speech that replaces names of things names of things like it. EX: The government worries over______. | 14 | |
| 10960234560 | Paradox | Statement that may seem silly but has some truth to it. EX: This statement is false | 15 | |
| 10960242595 | Parody | Imitation of a specific writer, or artist, or genre, that exaggerates deliberately for comic like effect. EX: Many people parody music songs | 16 | |
| 10960252155 | Point of View | Angle at which things are considered by the individual/s in the story. EX: The Lord of the Rings is through Frodo's point of view. | 17 | |
| 10960257882 | Personification | Figure of speech where a thing is given human like qualities that isn't human. EX: The glass cried out when scratched | 18 | |
| 10960267811 | Onomatopoeia | Word that sounds like it says. EX: POW, POP | 19 | |
| 10960270934 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech that combines two opposite ideas and creates an effect. EX: Awfully good | 20 | |
| 10960276932 | Satire | Technique used to expose or criticize foolishness or corruption. EX: Having an opinion does not make you right but if your loud enough it does. | 21 | |
| 10960284875 | Symbolism | Use of symbols to express certain things in a story. EX: Flags or banners in fantaasty/sc-fi shows or movies | 22 | |
| 10960287508 | Synecdoche | Literary device where something represents the whole or whole for a part. EX: Dough, as in money | 23 | |
| 10960291822 | Tone | Device used to establish authors attitude towards the subject and notify the audience of it. EX: Formal and Informal vocabulary | 24 |