CCCHS AP LITERATURE Flashcards

13593473800	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	0
13593473801	Anapest	three-syllable foot, stress on third	1
13593473802	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	2
13593473803	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	3
13593473804	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	4
13593473805	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	5
13593473806	Anti-hero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.	6
13593473807	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	7
13593473808	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	8
13593473809	Anachronism	something out of place in time	9
13593473810	Anagnorisis	recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to knowledge	10
13593473811	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	11
13593473812	Antithesis	Direct opposite	12
13593473813	Appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun.	13
13593473814	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	14
13593473815	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	15
13593473816	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story	16
13593473817	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	17
13593473818	Catharsis	a release of emotional tension	18
13593473819	Chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases	19
13593473820	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	20
13593473821	Catastrophe	a large-scale disaster, misfortune, or failure	21
13593473822	deus ex machina	an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.	22
13593473823	Diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.	23
13593473824	Dissonance	Unpleasant or unharmonious sound	24
13593473825	Dystopia	imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful	25
13593473826	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	26
13593473827	Dynamic Character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	27
13593473828	denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	28
13593473829	Dichotomy	a division into two parts	29
13593473830	Doppelgänger	an apparition or double of a living person	30
13593473831	Dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	31
13593473832	Elegy	a sad or mournful poem	32
13593473833	End rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	33
13593473834	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	34
13593473835	Epistolary	concerned with letters; through correspondence	35
13593473836	Epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.	36
13593473837	Eulogy	(n.) a formal statement of commendation; high praise	37
13593473838	Extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	38
13593473839	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	39
13593473840	Exposition	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.	40
13593473841	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	41
13593473842	Epitaph	(n.) a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone	42
13593473843	Ethos	credibility	43
13593473844	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	44
13593473845	Foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	45
13593473846	Frame story	a story within a story	46
13593473847	Falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	47
13593473848	Flat Character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	48
13593473849	Foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	49
13593473850	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	50
13593473851	Hamartia	tragic flaw	51
13593473852	Hubris	excessive pride	52
13593473853	Hyperbole	exaggeration	53
13593473854	Iamb	unstressed, stressed	54
13593473855	Illusion	(n.) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware that really does not exist	55
13593473856	Implied metaphor	Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly	56
13593473857	Internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	57
13593473858	Iambic pentameter	a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable	58
13593473859	in medias res	in the middle of things	59
13593473860	Intertextuality	the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.	60
13593473861	Inciting incident	event that introduces the central conflict	61
13593473862	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	62
13593473863	Kenning	A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean.	63
13593473864	Logos	Appeal to logic	64
13593473865	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	65
13593473866	Melosis	understatement, minimizing for effect (Perhaps I could eat a bite) ironic	66
13593473867	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	67
13593473868	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	68
13593473869	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	69
13593473870	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	70
13593473871	Maxim	a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying	71
13593473872	Memoir	A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources	72
13593473873	metaphysical	Concerned with abstract thought, related to metaphysics (branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of being and of the world); very subtle or abstruse	73
13593473874	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	74
13593473875	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	75
13593473876	Nemesis	someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy	76
13593473877	Naturalism	a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.	77
13593473878	non sequitur	something that does not logically follow	78
13593473879	Novella	a short novel	79
13593473880	Octave	8 line stanza	80
13593473881	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	81
13593473882	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	82
13593473883	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	83
13593473884	omniscient	all-knowing	84
13593473885	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	85
13593473886	Parataxis	writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions	86
13593473887	Pastiche	piece of literature or music imitating other works	87
13593473888	pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	88
13593473889	Persona	an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting	89
13593473890	Plot	Sequence of events in a story	90
13593474098	Pentameter	five feet	91
13593474099	parallel structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	92
13593474100	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	93
13593473891	poetic justice	When characters "get what they deserve" in the end of a story.	94
13593473892	Quatrain	A four line stanza	95
13593473893	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	96
13593473894	Rhetorical devices	literary techniques used to heighten the effectiveness of expression	97
13593473895	Rising action	Events leading up to the climax	98
13593473896	Round Character	A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work	99
13593473897	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	100
13593473898	Resolution	End of the story where loose ends are tied up	101
13593473899	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	102
13593474101	Static Character	A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end	103
13593474102	Superlative	Excellent; above all others	104
13593474103	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	105
13593474104	Sestet	6 line stanza	106
13593474105	Spondee	Two stressed syllables	107
13593474106	Synesis	the agreement of words according to logic, and not by the grammatical form; a kind of anacoluthon	108
13593474107	Sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet	109
13593474108	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	110
13593474109	stream of consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.	111
13593474110	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	112
13593474111	Trochaic	stressed, unstressed	113
13593474112	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	114
13593474113	Trope	The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor.	115
13593474114	Utopia	an ideal society	116
13593474115	Verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	117
13593474116	Voice	A writers distinctive use of language	118
13593474117	verisimilitude	the appearance of being true or real	119
13593474118	vignette	a short scene or story	120
13593474119	Vernacular	Everyday language of ordinary people	121