AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

12200557918	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
12200557919	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
12200557920	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
12200557921	Ambiguity	uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language	3
12200557922	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	4
12200557923	anapestic foot	Three syllables with the stress on the last syllable	5
12200557924	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	6
12200557925	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	7
12200557926	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	8
12200557927	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	9
12200557928	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	10
12200557929	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	11
12200557930	Archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	12
12200557931	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	13
12200557932	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	14
12200557933	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	15
12200557934	direct character	Author directly describes character	16
12200557935	indirect character	the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.	17
12200557936	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	18
12200557937	Classicism	A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms	19
12200557938	cliche	a worn-out idea or overused expression	20
12200557939	comedy	A humorous work of drama	21
12200557940	Confessional Poetry	a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.	22
12200557941	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	23
12200557942	internal and external	the two major types of conflict	24
12200557943	person vs person	The character struggles against the will or actions of another character.	25
12200557944	person vs society	struggle between a character and a group of people or society as a whole	26
12200557945	person vs self	the type of struggle in which an individual is in direct conflict with his own desires or beliefs	27
12200557946	person vs nature	a struggle between a character, and a force of nature	28
12200557947	person vs fate	A problem or struggle that appears to be well beyond a character's control.	29
12200557948	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	30
12200557949	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	31
12200557950	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	32
12200557951	dactyllic foot	a three-syllable foot that consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables	33
12200557952	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	34
12200557953	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	35
12200557954	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	36
12200557955	epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.	37
12200557956	Ethos	ethical appeal	38
12200557957	fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	39
12200557958	farce	A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose.	40
12200557959	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	41
12200557960	foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	42
12200557961	Foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	43
12200557962	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	44
12200557963	hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	45
12200557964	iambic foot	an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	46
12200557965	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	47
12200557966	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	48
12200557967	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	49
12200557968	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	50
12200557969	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	51
12200557970	situational irony	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	52
12200557971	logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	53
12200557972	Lyric poetry	A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings	54
12200557973	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
12200557974	extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	56
12200557975	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	57
12200557976	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	58
12200557977	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	59
12200557978	Monologue	A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group.	60
12200557979	motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	61
12200557980	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	62
12200557981	narrative poetry	poetry that tells a story	63
12200557982	naturalism	a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.	64
12200557983	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	65
12200557984	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	66
12200557985	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	67
12200557986	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	68
12200557987	parallel structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	69
12200557988	parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	70
12200557989	pathos	a quality that evokes pity or sadness	71
12200557990	persona	an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting	72
12200557991	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	73
12200557992	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	74
12200557993	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	75
12200557994	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	76
12200557995	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	77
12200557996	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	78
12200557997	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	79
12200557998	protagonist	Main character	80
12200557999	pyrrhic foot	two unstressed syllables	81
12200558000	quatrain	A four-line stanza	82
12200558001	Realism	A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be	83
12200558002	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	84
12200558003	Rhetoric	the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.	85
12200558004	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	86
12200558005	Romanticism	19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason	87
12200558006	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	88
12200558007	sextet	six-line stanza	89
12200558008	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	90
12200558009	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	91
12200558010	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	92
12200558011	spondaic foot	Two stressed syllables	93
12200558012	sterotype	A generalized belief about a group of people	94
12200558013	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	95
12200558014	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	96
12200558015	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	97
12200558016	thesis	a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.	98
12200558017	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	99
12200558018	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	100
12200558019	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	101
12200558020	trochaic foot	A two syllable foot with the stress on the first syllable	102
12200558021	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	103
12200558022	versimilitude	the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable	104
12200558023	voice	A writers distinctive use of language	105