AP Literature Vocabulary #2 Flashcards

11156213715	Antithesis	Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	0
11156219291	Antithesis	"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." (Paradise Lost)	1
11156233268	Antihero	Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or morals	2
11156239836	Antihero	Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby	3
11156249052	Anthropomorphism	attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object	4
11156259768	Anthropomorphism	"A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents." (Aesop's Fables)	5
11156274815	Aphorism	Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life or a principle or accepted general truth (a.k.a Maxim or Epigram)	6
11156303274	Aphorism	"Lord, what fools these mortals be." (A Midsummer Night's Dream)	7
11156288368	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea	8
11156309439	Apostrophe	"O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" (Julius Caesar)	9
11156321842	Assonance	The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together	10
11156329008	Assonance	"Poetry is old, ancient, gOEs back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that nO man knOWs how and why the first pOEms came." (Early Moon)	11
11156345769	Asyndeton	Commas used without conjunctions to separate a series of words thus emphasizing the parts equally	12
11156354138	Asyndeton	"An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish." (Heart of Darkness)	13
11156371082	Indirect characterization	The author reveals to the reader what the character is like through: speech, thoughts, effect on other characters, actions and looks. (STEAL)	14
11156397919	Indirect characterization	"First of all," he said, "if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from their points of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around it." (To Kill A Mockingbird)	15
11156390248	Direct characterization	The author directly tells us what the character is like.	16
11156427782	Direct characterization	"Bill was short and fat, and his bald spot was widening with every passing year."	17
11156442077	Static character	One that does not change much over the course of the story	18
11156445398	Static character	Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird	19