AP Literature 4 Flashcards
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| 11212004898 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. | 0 | |
| 11212004899 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste | 1 | |
| 11212004900 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time". An aspect of a story that doesn't belong to its supposed time setting | 2 | |
| 11212004901 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 3 | |
| 11212004902 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 4 | |
| 11212004903 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 5 | |
| 11212004904 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 6 | |
| 11212004905 | Burlesque | Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into rediculousness | 7 | |
| 11212004906 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 8 | |
| 11212004907 | Conceit | A startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines | 9 | |
| 11212004908 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks | 10 | |
| 11212004909 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 11 | |
| 11212004910 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 12 | |
| 11212004911 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed. | 13 | |
| 11212004912 | Parable | A story that instructs. | 14 | |
| 11212004913 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 15 | |
| 11212004914 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds. | 16 | |
| 11212004915 | Stock character | Standard or cliched character types | 17 | |
| 11212004916 | Tragic flaw | In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise | 18 | |
| 11212004917 | Utopia | An idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace. | 19 |