AP Literature Terms Flashcards

10743936528	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	0
10743936529	Mood	a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions	1
10743936530	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	2
10743936531	Syntax	the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing	3
10743936532	Diction	style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer	4
10743936533	round character	complex and undergo development	5
10743936534	flat character	two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work	6
10743936535	Allusion	a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds	7
10743936536	Apostrophe	A figure of speech sometimes represented by a exclamation	8
10743936537	Syncedoche	A part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part	9
10743936538	extended metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.	10
10743936539	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	11
10743936540	Onomatopoeia	a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds	12
10743936541	Understatement	a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is	13
10743936542	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	14
10743936543	Paradox	a statement that contradicts itself	15
10743936544	Analogy	a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it	16
10743936545	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	17
10743936546	Anaphora	the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech	18
10743936547	Alliteration	Two or more words in a phrase that share the same beginning consonant sound	19
10743936548	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	20
10743936549	Rythm	a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.	21
10743936550	Rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.	22
10743936551	Ballad	a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB	23
10743936552	English Sonnet (Shakespearean)	fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet	24
10743936553	blank verse	a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter	25