AP Literature Vocabulary Set 17 Flashcards

13283289221	Lampoon	Writing that ridicules and satirizes a person in a bitter, scurrilous manner in verse or prose.	0
13283290021	Legend	A fictional event based on real places and real events of historical importance.	1
13283290738	Litote	A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite.	2
13283290739	Limerick	A form of light verse that follows a definite pattern: five anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth, consisting of three feet, rhyme; and the third and fourth lines, consisting of two feet, rhyme.	3
13283292729	Local color	Writing that exploits the speech, dress, mannerisms, habits of thought, and topography peculiar to a certain region.	4
13283292730	Loose Sentence	A sentence grammatically complete before the end.	5
13283293967	Low comedy	Comedy that lacks seriousness of purpose or subtlety of manner and has little intellectual appeal.	6
13283295251	Lyric	A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, creating a single, unified expression.	7
13283296128	Magical Realism	A type of writing where postmodern writers mingle and juxtapose realistic events with fantastic ones or they experiment with shifts in time and setting.	8
13283296627	Malapropism	An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another.	9
13283297422	Masculine Rhyme	Rhyme that falls on the stressed concluding syllable of the rhyme words.	10
13283301463	Meiosis	Intentional understatement for humorous or satiric effect.	11
13283302506	Melodrama	A work, usually a play, based on a romantic plot and developed sensationally with little regard for motivation and with an excessive appeal to the emotions of the audience.	12
13283302509	Memoir	A form of autobiographical writing dealing with the recollections of one who has been a part of or who has witnessed significant events.	13
13283305513	Metafiction	A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of the fiction itself.	14
13283306601	Metaphor	An analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second.	15
13283307153	Meter	The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern, or the rhythm established by the regular occurrence of similar units of sound.	16
13283308081	Mock epic	A literary form that makes fun of the epic by treating a trivial subject in a serious manner or uses the epic formula to make a trivial subject ridiculous by overstating it.	17
13283309136	Metonymy	The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself.	18
13283311554	Monologue	Refers to a character speaking aloud to himself or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage	19
13283311555	Mood	A feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind-especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of a literary work.	20
13283313070	Motif	A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature.	21
13283313852	Motivation	The reasons, justifications, and explanations for the actions of a character.	22
13283314504	Mystery	A work in which mystery or terror plays a controlling part.	23
13283315603	Myth	A traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms of ritual practice, or models of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. It often (but not always) deals with gods, supernatural beings, or ancestral heroes.	24
13283316889	Mythology	A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally true by their descendants.	25
13283319976	narrative poem	An account of events; anything that is narrated.	26
13283321866	Nonfiction	An account, narrative, or representation of a subject which an author presents as fact.	27
13283323021	Novel	Any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters.	28
13283324312	Novella	An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel.	29
13283324819	Octave	An eight-line stanza.	30
13283325821	Octet	A group of eight lines of verse.	31
13283325822	Ode	A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme.	32
13283327669	Onomatopoeia	Words that by their sound suggest their meaning.	33
13283328439	Overstatement	General or specific exaggeration; hyperbole.	34
13283329168	Oxymoron	A self-contradictory combination of words.	35