AP Literature terms (12/14) Flashcards

12026519562	Local Color	a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape.	0
12026519563	Loose Sentence	one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units	1
12026519564	Lyric Poem	a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker	2
12026519565	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.	3
12026519566	Implied Metaphor	does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison	4
12026519567	Extended Metaphor	is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it. (conceit if it is quite elaborate).	5
12026519568	Dead Metaphor	is a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid: "The head of the house", "the seat of the government", "a knotty problem" are all dead metaphors.	6
12026519569	Mixed Metaphor	is a metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible. "The President is a lame duck who is running out of gas."	7
12026519570	Metonomy	A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").	8
12026519571	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	9
12026519572	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	10
12026519573	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	11
12026519574	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	12
12026519575	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	13
12026519576	Parallel Structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	14