AP Literature Terms Flashcards

10859780405	Diction	Word choice	0
10859780406	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	1
10859783550	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	2
10859827789	Shift	indicate some type of change. usually the speaker's perspective	3
10859829851	tone	emotional coloring of a work. Direct reflection of the speaker's attitude. Primarily diction	4
10859834002	Mood	the feeling a reader gets from a story as a result of the tone	5
10859839760	Simile	comparing two things using like or as	6
10859839761	Metaphor	a direct comparison of two different things *Extended metaphor	7
10859841571	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	8
10859846671	imeragy	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	9
10859846689	syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	10
10859850370	Inversion	maintain rhyme but also emphasize a point	11
10859852102	Enjambment	(run on line) one line ends without pause and must continue into the next line to complete the meaning	12
10859857293	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	13
10859858893	Elegy	contemplative poem, usually for someone who died	14
10859862265	Lyric	a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker	15
10859864396	Ode	a form of poetry used to meditate on or address a single object or condition	16
10859865963	Villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)	17
10859870832	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	18
10859872778	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	19
10859872779	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	20
10859874554	Onomatopeia	formation or use of words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to	21
10859876001	Rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	22
10859876002	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	23
10859877814	Internal Rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	24
10859879407	Near Rhyme (Slant rhyme)	poetic license to rhyme works that do not quite sound the same.	25
10859882988	Quatrain	A four line stanza	26
10859882989	Couplet	rhyme aabb	27
10859885240	Oxymoron	paradoxes made up of 2 seemingly contradictiory words	28
10859887579	Parallel structure	repeating words and sounds	29
10859889188	conflict	A struggle between opposing forces	30
10859890985	exposition	Background information presented in a literary work.	31
10859893016	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	32
10859893017	Climax	Most exciting moment of the story; turning point	33
10859894651	Falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	34
10859898095	Denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	35
10859899430	In media res	in the middle of things	36
10859899433	flashback	a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.	37
10859900590	foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	38
10859901616	protagonist	main character	39
10859901617	antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	40
10859904661	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story	41
10859904662	round character	A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work	42
10859906015	flat character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	43
10859906016	foil character	a character's whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of another character	44
10859907291	Stock character	a stereotypical character	45
10859909562	Characterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	46
10859909563	Direct	straightforward and honest	47
10859912639	indirect	not directly caused by or resulting from something.	48
10859914159	historical context	the historical period that shapes a work of literature and allows the reader to understand important issues in a given time period	49
10859914160	cultural environment	institutions and other forces that affect society's basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors	50
10859915853	narrative voice	the attitude, personality or character of the narrator as it is revealed through dialogue or descriptive and narrative commentary	51
10859915854	first person	the narrator is a character in the story	52
10859917491	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	53
10859919602	third person omniscient	the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a work	54
10859919604	third person limited	Narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts.	55
10859923632	objective narrator	recounts only what characters say and do, offering no insight or judgement into their thinking or analysis of events	56
10859924941	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	57
10859926336	allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	58
10859928458	Theme	1) subject and theme are not the same 2) Avoid cliches 3) Do not ignore contradictory details 4) Theme is not a moral 5) Literary work almost always has more than one theme	59