AP Literature Prep Flashcards

7682102681	Adage	A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language	0
7682102682	Anachronism	A person, scene, event, or other element that fails to correspond to the time period the work is set in	1
7682102683	Annotation	A brief explanation or summary about a text	2
7682102684	Antithesis	A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of grammatical structure	3
7682102685	Apollonian	The most noble/godlike qualities of human nature	4
7682102686	Archetype	An original form of an object	5
7682102687	Bathos	The use of insincere or overdone sentimentality	6
7682102688	Belle-Lettres	French term for the world of literature	7
7682102689	Bildungsroman	German title for a book that follows a series of events as the hero travels in quest of his/her goal	8
7682102690	Bombast	Inflated or pretentious language	9
7682102691	Burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject	10
7682102692	Cacophony	Inharmonious sounds	11
7682102693	Caesura	A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often marked by punctuation	12
7682102694	Canon	Works widely read and studied	13
7682102695	Caricature	A grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons and things	14
7682102696	Deus ex machina	In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem.	15
7682102697	Dionysian	As distinguished from Apollonian, the word refers to sensual, pleasure-seeking impulses	16
7682102698	Elegy	A poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing or death of something or someone of value	17
7682102699	Elliptical Construction	A sentence containing a deliberate omission of words.	18
7682102700	Empathy	A feeling of association or identification with an object or person	19
7682102701	End-stopped	A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation.	20
7682102702	Epigram	A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement	21
7682102703	Euphony	Pleasing, harmonious sounds	22
7682102704	Epithet	An adjective or phrase that expresses a striking qualification of a person or thing.	23
7682102705	Eponymous	A term for a title character of a work of literature.	24
7682102706	Euphemism	A mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term	25
7682102707	Exegesis	A detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of literature	26
7682102708	Expose	A piece of writing that reveals weakness, faults, frailties, or other short-comings	27
7682102709	Explication	The interpretation or analysis of a text	28
7682102710	Farce	A comedy that contains an extravagant or nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose.	29
7682102666	Harangue	A forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade	30
7682102667	Heroic couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse	31
7682102668	Humanism	A belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity	32
7682102669	Idyll	A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place	33
7682102670	In medias res	A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point	34
7682102671	Invective	A direct verbal assault; a denunciation	35
7682102672	Kenning	A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities	36
7682102673	Lampoon	A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation	37
7682102674	Litotes	A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity	38
7682102675	Loose sentence	A sentence that follows the customary word order of English sentences. The main idea of the sentence is presented first and is then followed by one or more subordinate clauses	39
7682102676	Maxim	A saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth	40
7682102677	Melodrama	A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response	41
7682102678	Metaphysical poetry	The work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life	42
7682102679	Mock epic	A parody of traditional epic form, it usually treats a frivolous topic with extreme seriousness, using convictions such as invocations to the Muse, action-packed battle scenes, and accounts of heroic exploits	43
7682102680	Montage	A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea	44
7682102718	Naturalism	A term often used as a synonym for realism, also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic	45
7682102719	Non sequitur	A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before	46
7682102720	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings towards the subject.	47
7682102721	Ottava rima	An eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem	48
7682102722	Parody	An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject	49
7682102723	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	50
7682102724	Pathetic fallacy	Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects	51
7682102725	Pathos	An element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	52
7682102726	Pentameter	A verse with five poetic feet per line	53
7682102727	Periodic sentence	A sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thoughts only at the end	54
7682102728	Picaresque novel	An episodic novel about a rogue-like a wanderer who lives off his wits	55
7682102729	Prosody	The grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry	56
7682102730	Pulp fiction	Novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots	57
7682102731	Rhetoric	The language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience	58
7682102732	Rhetorical stance	Language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject	59
7682102711	Roman a clef	French for a novel in which historical events and actual people appear in a fictional story	60
7682102712	Sentiment	A synonym for view or feeling or a refined and tender emotion in literature	61
7682102713	Stream of consciousness	A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	62
7682102714	Trope	The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, or metaphor	63
7682102716	Versification	The structural form of a line of verse as compared to the number of feet it contains	64
7682102715	Verisimilitude	Similar to the truth or the quality of realism that persuades readers to believe that they are getting a vision of life as it is	65
7682102717	Villanelle	A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines in a prescribed pattern of rhymes	66