AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 10874694189 | Prescient | - Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. | 0 | |
| 10874699345 | Rhetorical Question | - Asked to create a dramatic effect or make a point. - Example: Can't you do anything right? | 1 | |
| 10874705545 | Onomatopoiea | - Words sound like their meaning. - Examples: Buzz or Boom | 2 | |
| 10874708751 | Negation | - The contradiction or denial of something. - Example: She is a nice girl - She is not a nice girl | 3 | |
| 10874715171 | Topic vs. Theme | - Example: The topic of the story is about the types of endangered species around the world, but the theme is to protect the Earth and its organisms. | 4 | |
| 10874722297 | Characterization | - The creation or contruction of a fictional character. - Example: The patient, tall, and quiet boy. | 5 | |
| 10874728704 | Narrative | - Tell a story. - Examples: Poetry, song, dance, etc. | 6 | |
| 10874728705 | Allusion | - An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. - Example: When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge. | 7 | |
| 10874743431 | Existentialism | - Struggling with identity in the face of one's own mortality. | 8 | |
| 10874746031 | FOIL Characters | - Contrasting traits between characters. - Example: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy | 9 | |
| 10874751145 | Static | - A character that does not go through an important change. | 10 | |
| 10874758302 | Dynamic | - A character that goes through an important change. | 11 | |
| 10874764112 | POV/Perspective | - The "timing" of the point-of-view | 12 | |
| 10874767933 | Enjambment | - No punctuation at the end of a line. | 13 | |
| 10874772196 | Simile | - Comparison with like or as. - Example: As fast as a cheetah | 14 | |
| 10874776264 | Metaphor | - Stronger comparison with a much deeper meaning (does not use like or as). - Example: The curtain of night fell upon us | 15 | |
| 10874786792 | Alliteration | - Repetition of the same sound or syllables. - Example: Peter Piper picked a patch of pickled peppers. | 16 | |
| 10874792128 | Speaker | - The narrator | 17 | |
| 10874795269 | Structure | - How certain pieces of writing and rhyme schemes are made. | 18 | |
| 10874800682 | Diction | - The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 19 | |
| 11428019486 | Juxtaposition | - The fact of two things close together with contrasting effect. - Example: Heaven and Hell | 20 | |
| 11428024966 | Envoy | - A messenger | 21 | |
| 11428028338 | Elipsis | - A pause (longer pause) | 22 | |
| 11428032383 | Realism | - Accepting a situation as is and being prepared to deal with it. | 23 | |
| 11428040869 | "Problem Play" | - Characters deal with contention social issues through debates on stage. | 24 | |
| 11428054377 | Greek Tragedy | - Downfall - Suffering/insight - Pity/fear arroused | 25 | |
| 11428061632 | Hamartia | - A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 26 | |
| 11428069309 | Aristotle | Unities of: - Time: Less than 24 hours - Action: Few subplots - Place: One place | 27 | |
| 11428076690 | Motif | - Recurring symbol which takes on a figurative meaning. | 28 | |
| 11428082096 | Paradox | - A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow. | 29 | |
| 11428088581 | Sonnet | - 14 lines | 30 | |
| 11428091733 | Rhyming Couplet | - When 2 lines in a row rhyme | 31 | |
| 11428101980 | Apostrophe | - Address someone or something that isn't there. | 32 | |
| 11428110096 | Stanza | - "Paragraphs" in poetry | 33 | |
| 11428118625 | Quatrain | - 4 line stanza | 34 | |
| 11428128206 | End-Stopped Lines | - There's punctuation at the end of a line in poetry. | 35 | |
| 11428139501 | Denotation | - Dictionary definition of a word. | 36 | |
| 11428146170 | Connotation | - The "extra stuff" that comes with a word. - Example: Emotion | 37 | |
| 11982280003 | Bildungsroman | - A "coming of age" story (child's growth in life) | 38 | |
| 11982287683 | Gothic Novel | - Have an element of horror and/or suspense - Example: Main character in danger, haunted houses, etc. | 39 | |
| 11982312644 | Symbolism | - Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities | 40 | |
| 11982340083 | Byronic Hero | - A rebel, outcast, extremely proud to the point of arrogance, past is tainted, always striving for atonement | 41 | |
| 11982363135 | Romanticism | - Placed freedom of the individual more important than societal standards | 42 | |
| 11982385347 | Inexorable | - Something that's impossible to stop or prevent | 43 | |
| 11982393804 | Impute | - To attribute or give credit to | 44 | |
| 11982398831 | Syntax | - Word order | 45 | |
| 11982410646 | Oxymoron | - Two words close together that are paradoxical - Example: calmly running | 46 | |
| 11982422836 | Ode | - A poem that's a tribute and glorifies what it's writing about | 47 | |
| 11982432132 | Ballad | - A narrative poem | 48 | |
| 11982501828 | Concessions | - When you admit the other person's point is correct | 49 | |
| 11982513232 | Laudatory | - Commendable; congratulatory | 50 | |
| 11982521120 | Superficially | - On the surface | 51 | |
| 11982528558 | Assonance | - Repetition of vowels | 52 | |
| 11982559600 | Consonance | - Repetition of constants | 53 | |
| 11982576494 | Internal Rhyme | - A rhyme inside one line - Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary | 54 | |
| 11982582342 | Eulogy | - A formal expression of praise | 55 | |
| 11982588800 | Parable | - A very short moral story | 56 | |
| 12831274831 | Dramatic Monologue | - A poem in which a character is talking about someone, but said person isn't there. | 57 | |
| 12831279712 | Sardonic | - Ironically humerous with a bit of edge; disdainful. | 58 | |
| 12831294212 | Fawning | - Flattering someone in order to win their favor. | 59 | |
| 12831296932 | Indolence | - Sluggish, slow, inactive | 60 | |
| 12831302837 | Wanton | - Loose with themselves; promiscuous | 61 | |
| 12831307795 | Ingenuous | - Innocent and unsuspecting. | 62 | |
| 12831311112 | Intractable | - Hard to control or deal with | 63 | |
| 12831315232 | Pretension | - A claim or the assertion of a claim to something. | 64 | |
| 12831334519 | Metonymy | - Substitute a factor of who someone is as their name. - Example: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears | 65 | |
| 12831363100 | Litotes | - Understatement | 66 | |
| 12831393021 | Conceit (Metaphysical Conceit) | - An extended metaphor (very unique) | 67 | |
| 12831402974 | English (Shakespearean) Sonnet | - Sonnet that always ends in a rhyming couplet | 68 | |
| 12831445351 | Italian Sonnet | - Sonnet that has much more rhyming | 69 | |
| 12831449171 | Rhyme Scheme | - Follows a sequence of (ABAB) (CDCD) | 70 | |
| 12831460774 | Shift/Turn | - A "shift" in thinking/A "turn" in thought | 71 | |
| 12831520312 | Laity | - The average person; NOT a person of the ministry | 72 | |
| 12831531391 | Blank Verse | - Iambic pentameter that does not rhyme (5 per line); "iam" = unstressed syllable followed by stressed (unrhymed) - Example: Shakespearean poems | 73 | |
| 12831545512 | Pun | - A play on words - Example: I was struggling to figure out how lightning works, but then it struck me. | 74 | |
| 12831549284 | Dramatic Conventions | - Tools that Shakespeare and actors used to help the audience | 75 | |
| 12831556523 | Irony (All 3) | - Verbal, situational, dramatic | 76 | |
| 12831560868 | Soliloquy | - A longer speech (alone, and comes out and starts talking) | 77 | |
| 12831595809 | Aside | - A character turns to the audience and says something about another character (internal monologue). | 78 | |
| 12849966675 | Frame Story | - A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story. | 79 |