AP Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

13635205756	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	0
13635205757	flashback/flashforward	A jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time.	1
13635205758	foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	2
13635205759	hyperbole	exaggeration	3
13635205760	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	4
13635205761	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	5
13635205762	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	6
13635205763	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	7
13635205764	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	8
13635205765	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	9
13635205766	oxymoron/paradox	Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level	10
13635205767	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	11
13635205768	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	12
13635205769	first person	"I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective.	13
13635205770	third person	Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	14
13635205771	objective	unbiased; not subjective	15
13635205772	omniscient	all-knowing	16
13635205773	limited	restricted	17
13635205774	Satire	a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change	18
13635205775	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	19
13635205776	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	20
13635205777	stream of consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.	21
13635205778	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	22
13635205779	mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	23
13635205780	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	24
13635205781	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	25
13635205782	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	26
13635205783	ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	27
13635205784	Sonnet	14 line poem	28
13635205785	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	29
13635205786	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	30
13635205787	Quatrain	A four line stanza	31
13635205788	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	32
13635205789	rhymed verse	Consists of a verse with end rhyme and regular meter	33
13635205790	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	34
13635205791	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	35
13635205792	Semantics	Meaning of words and sentences	36
13635205793	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	37
13635205794	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	38
13635205795	Syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language	39
13635205796	Rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	40
13635205797	end rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	41
13635205798	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	42
13635205799	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	43
13635205800	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	44
13635205801	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	45
13635209767	Diction	a writer's choice of words	46
13635209768	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	47