AP Literature Terms Flashcards

11336955765	Abstract Language	Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places.	0
11336967274	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
11336967275	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	2
11336971795	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	3
11336988696	Anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	4
11337000085	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	5
11337000086	Archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	6
11337002736	Attitude	Perspective or tone of the writer he adopts in a certain work. Way in which an author develops his characters and stories	7
11337056790	Bildungsroman	A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character.	8
11337059691	Caricature	a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.	9
11337095483	Catharsis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.	10
11337100266	Concrete Language	describes specific, observable things rather than ideas or qualities	11
11337100267	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	12
11337103138	Convention	defining features of particular literary genres	13
11337103139	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	14
11337107118	Denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	15
11337116336	Dialogue	Conversation between two or more characters	16
11337122440	Didactic	Novel, play, poem or other literary work that intends to to teach the reader some sort of lesson or thing	17
11337122441	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	18
11337125349	Ennui	weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom	19
11337125350	Epigram	witty comment that points out a truth of mankind	20
11337156482	Epigraph	the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme	21