AP Literature Definitions Flashcards

13307518744	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	0
13307525130	Attitude	The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author, or character.	1
13307542100	Details	the individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.	2
13307549810	Devices of sound	the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry, such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc.	3
13307572816	Diction	word choice	4
13307584789	Figurative language	writing that uses figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, and irony.	5
13307616673	Imagery	the images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.	6
13307632500	Irony	a figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning different, characteristically using praise to indicate blame or using blame to indicate praise;	7
13307668247	Metaphor	a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as", "like", or "than."	8
13307696227	Narrative techniques	the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts.	9
13307711720	Omniscient point of view	vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses.	10
13307723529	Point of view	any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told.	11
13307748122	Resources of language	a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use.	12
13307773491	Rhetorical techniques	The devices used in effective or persuasive language.	13
13307796284	Satire	writing that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject.	14
13307807120	Setting	the background of a story; the physical location of a play or story.	15
13307815110	Simile	a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like", "as", or "than".	16
13307832651	Strategy (or rhetorical stragegy)	the management of language for a specific effect.	17
13307848134	Structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	18
13307854498	Style	the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author.	19
13307864688	Symbol	something that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else.	20
13307883888	Syntax	the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence	21
13307889464	Theme	the main thought expressed by a work	22
13307895681	Tone	the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning.	23