AP English Terms for Pre-AP Flashcards

14011596318	metaphor	comparison of two seemingly unlike things	0
14011596319	simile	comparison using like or as	1
14011596320	personification	characteristics of humans given to non-humans	2
14011596321	synecdoche	giving the part for the whole	3
14011596322	metonymy	substitution of associated word for word itself	4
14011596323	allusion	reference to well-known being or event	5
14011596324	symbol	is what it is and something more	6
14011596325	image	sensory detail	7
14011596327	abstract	language that represents emotions or experiences with no physical parallel	8
14011596329	motif	recurrent image, idea, or theme in a specific piece of literature	9
14011596330	verbal irony	say one thing, mean another	10
14011596331	dramatic irony	audience knows, character doesn't	11
14011596332	situational irony	unexpected result	12
14011596333	understatement	making big things seem small/saying less than you mean	13
14011596334	hyperbole	exaggeration	14
14011596335	paradox	an apparent or seeming contradiction, that is somehow true- long style	15
14011596336	oxymoron	an apparent or seeming contradiction, that is somehow true- short style	16
14011596339	diction	word choice	17
14011596341	antithesis	balancing of contrasting ideas	18
14011596342	polysyndeton	stringing a sentence out with conjunctions	19
14011596344	parallelism	repetition of similar syntactical structure	20
14011596345	point of view	narrative perspective- 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person	21
14011596346	apostrophe	addressing a person or entity not present	22
14011596347	analogy	extended comparison of similar things	23
14011596348	colloquialism	informal diction	24
14011596349	alliteration	repetition of consonant sound in initial position	25
14011596350	assonance	repetition of vowel sound	26
14011596351	consonance	repetition of consonant sound in any position	27
14011596352	euphony	soft, pleasing sounds	28
14011596354	onomatopoeia	word whose sound suggests meaning	29
14011596358	stanzas	The division of lines in a poem. Some examples are couplet, quatrain, octave	30
14011596360	rhyme scheme	end rhyme expressed alphabetically (ex. abbacdcd)	31
14011596361	naturalism	extreme realism in literature	32
14011596362	existentialism	a form of literature where humans inadequate to explain complex world	33
14011596363	magical realism	a form of literature that begins real, gets weird	34
14011596364	expressionism	a form of literature that objectifies inner experience	35
14011596365	tragedy	a story that starts good, gets bad, hero destroyed	36
14011596366	comedy	a story that starts bad, gets good, hero triumphs	37
14011596371	allegory	persons equated with meanings beyond the narrative	38
14011596372	satire	improving human conditions through exaggeration, comedy	39
14011596373	novel	extended fictional narrative	40
14011596376	parody	ridicule of a serious work by exaggerated imitation	41
14011596382	Myth	traditional story explaining natural phenomena or cultural practice	42
14011596383	didactic literature	a work on literature that seeks to instruct	43
14011596385	central idea	core of a writer's assertion	44
14011596387	topic sentence	focus of paragraph	45
14011596388	structure	introduction, body and conclusion	46
14011596400	free verse	poetry with no regular rhyme or rhythm	47
14011596411	atmosphere	effect of physical environment	48
14011596412	tone	author or speaker's attitude	49
14011596413	conflict	interplay of oppssing forces	50
14011596414	comic relief	lightens narrative	51
14011596418	flashback	device to supply background	52
14011596419	foreshadowing	hints at coming events	53
14011596421	theme	central idea	54
14011596422	plot	exposition, rising action, climax, falling action	55
14011596429	protagonist	character around which the action is centered	56
14011596430	antagonist	person or force working against the protagonist	57
14011596440	Denotation	The Dictionary definition of a word	58
14011596441	Connotation	The meaning beyond the dictionary meaning	59
14011596442	Figurative Language	language that cannot be taken literally- metaphors, similes, symbols, etc.	60