AP Literature Terms Flashcards

7413154361	allusion	a reference to history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture.	0
7413154362	ambiguity	Deliberately suggesting two or more differenct, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work.	1
7413154363	anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row	2
7413156262	antimetabole	Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (e.g. "One should eat to live, not live to eat."	3
7413157853	antithesis	Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	4
7413157854	asyndeton	Commas used without conjuction	5
7413159042	direct characterization	Author tells us directly what the character is like. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this	6
7413159043	dynamic character	a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action	7
7413160179	indirect characterization	the author reveals what the character is like through the character's words, actions, and thoughts. Common in modern literature	8
7413160180	round character	a character that has more dimensions to their personalities - they are complex, just like real people	9
7413160181	static character	a characterthat does not change much in the course of the story	10
7413161361	connotation	the implied meaning of words through associations and emotional overtones	11
7413161362	metaphor	a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison	12
7413161363	mood	An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected	13
7413161364	motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work that ties ideas to the theme	14
7413162593	personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	15
7413162594	polysyndeton	sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas	16
7413162595	simile	a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using comparison words	17
7413163977	synecdoche	a part repreasents the whole (e.g. 100 head of cattle)	18
7413163978	theme	the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work	19
7413165821	tone	an attitude that a wrtier takes towardd the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization	20
7741432127	Allegory	story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.	21
7741450350	Anastrophe	Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony	22
7741458191	antagonist	the opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story.	23
8568630437	chiasmus	In poetry, a second sentence is syntactically balanced against a first, but reversed. "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike" In prose, called antimetabole.	24
8568639014	confessional poetry	a 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.	25
8568641634	couplet	two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry	26
8568642924	elegy	a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.	27
8568645169	Eulogy	a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died	28
8568647318	epic	a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society.	29
8568650960	free verse	poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.	30
8568654327	lyric poem	a poem that doesn't tell a story bu expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker.	31
8568657511	quatrain	a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit	32
8568661403	refrain	a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem	33
8568663506	style	the distinctive way in which a writer uses language: a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax.	34
8568665175	syntactic fluency	ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length.	35