AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5274484838	vernacular	language spoken by people who live in a particular locality	0
5274487652	unity	unified parts of writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle	1
5274496146	tricolon	sentence of three parts of equal importance	2
5274498896	telegraphic sentence	sentence shorter than five words	3
5274500786	syntactic permutation	sentence structure is very complex and difficult to follow	4
5274504910	syntactic fluency	ability to create variety of sentence structures	5
5274507403	romance	idealized hero undertake a quest and is successful	6
5274511392	rhetoric	art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse	7
5274512982	refrain	word, phrase, line, or group of lines that are repeated several times in a poem	8
5274516956	quatrain	poem of four lines/ four lines of poem that can be considered a unit	9
5274522372	periodic	main idea is at end of sentence	10
5274525685	paratactic sentence	juxtaposes clauses or sentences	11
5274532391	motif	recurring image, word, phrase, idea unifying the work	12
5274535800	metonymy	something is referred to by something closely associated with it	13
5274540600	mixed metaphor	mixes its terms so they are visually incompatible	14
5274547082	dead metaphor	overused metaphor; no longer vivid	15
5274550124	implied metaphor	metaphor without stating two terms of comparison	16
5274552161	lyric poem	poem that expresses personal feelings/ thoughts of speaker	17
5274554794	loose sentence	main clause comes first	18
5274557280	local color	fiction/poetry; place emphasis on setting (customs, clothing, dialect, etc)	19
5274563893	litotes	understatement where positive is emphasized through negation of negative	20
5274567236	irony	discrepancy between appearance and reality	21
5274571111	inversion	reversal of normal word order in sentence or phrase	22
5274572866	hypotactic	sentence marked by use of connecting words between clauses; shows relationship	23
5274576722	free verse	poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme	24
5274579316	foil	character who acts as contrast to another character	25
5274580800	farce	comedy with exaggerations/stereotypes	26
5274583755	explication	act of interpreting or discovering meaning of text	27
5274585742	fable	short story in poetry or prose that teaches practical lesson about succeeding in life	28
5274588446	exposition	discourse where something is explained	29
5274590664	narrative	discourse that tells series of event	30
5274591828	description	discourse that uses language to create mood	31
5274594201	casual relationship	writer claims one thing is result from another	32
5274595697	persuasion	relies more on emotion	33
5274595698	essay	non fiction prose where writer discusses aspect of subject	34
5274599396	epithet	adjectives/ phrase applied to person that is used to emphasize a quality (father of our nation=washington)	35
5274606272	epistrophe	repetition occurs at end of more than two lines	36
5274610121	epic	long narrative poem which recounts deeds of hero and embodies value of society	37
5274782104	epanalepsis	device of repetition in which same expression is repeated both at beginning and end of line	38
5274789433	elegy	poem of mourning	39
5274790954	eulogy	great praise about someone who has died	40
5274792525	didactic	form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches specific lesson or moral or provides model of correct behavior	41
5274797836	dynamic character	character who changes in important ways	42
5274799659	flat character	has only one or two personality traits	43
5274801572	round character	many dimensions to personality	44
5274802792	chiasmus	rhetorical balance where second part is syntactically balanced with first (antimetabole for poetry)	45
5274808180	conceit	elaborate metaphor that compares things that are really different	46
5274810282	confessional poetry	poetry that uses intimate material from poet's life	47
5274813987	static character	doesn't change in story	48
5274816662	indirect characterization	reveals personality by description and thoughts	49
5274821761	apostrophe	calling out to imaginary, dead, absent person	50
5274823651	invocation	asking god or goddess for inspiration	51
5274825602	aphorism (maxim, epigram)	brief, clever worded statement that makes observation about life	52
5274830996	anthropomorphism	attributing human characters to animals or inanimate	53
5274834581	antihero	central character who lacks traditional qualities of hero (courage, etc)	54
5274838746	anastrophe	inversion of usual, logical order of parts of sentence	55
5274843015	ambiguity	suggesting two or more different sometimes conflicting meanings in work on purpose	56
5274846020	allegory	story or poem in which characters. settings, stand for people or events or abstract ideas or qualities	57