AP Literature 6 Flashcards
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| 11417931390 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure | 0 | |
| 11417931391 | Anachronsim | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting | 1 | |
| 11417931392 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarity an action or a relationship | 2 | |
| 11417931393 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily steeping outside of the action on stage | 3 | |
| 11417931394 | Black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy | 4 | |
| 11417931395 | Burlesque | Broad parody, one that takes a style or from and exaggerates it into ridiculousness | 5 | |
| 11417931396 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase used everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English | 6 | |
| 11417931397 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhymes | 7 | |
| 11417931398 | Denotation | A word's literal meaning | 8 | |
| 11417931399 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use | 9 | |
| 11417931400 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed | 10 | |
| 11417931401 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 11 | |
| 11417931402 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 12 | |
| 11417931403 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase | 13 | |
| 11417931404 | Metonym | A word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with | 14 | |
| 11417931405 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds | 15 | |
| 11417931406 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play | 16 | |
| 11417931407 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 17 | |
| 11417931408 | Satire | Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common | 18 | |
| 11417931409 | Thesis | The main position of an argument. The central contention that will be supported. | 19 |