AP Literature Flashcards

10753511078	prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	0
10753511690	novel	extended work of prose fiction, an attempt to represent the world.	1
10753523418	piqaresque	episodic satire (in case of don quixote), goes through series of adventures, the picar is the jaunty character who travels from area to area and has the misadventures	2
10753530282	bildungsroman	A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character- a novel of education	3
10753532597	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	4
10753533585	allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions; a related set of symbols intended to work together to provide additional meaning	5
10753539878	stanza	group of lines in a poem	6
10753539879	canto	group of stanzas in a poem	7
10753540780	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	8
10753542589	antiquity	the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe (pre-435)	9
10753542590	classical	typically Greek or Roman works that are commonly categorized as noteworthy	10
10753544002	lyric	A short poem that expresses a moment of insight, a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, poem of song-like quality	11
10753544003	free verse	poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	12
10753546488	fixed form	A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas.	13
10753547697	end rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	14
10753548454	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	15
10753549773	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	16
10753549774	diction	word choice	17
10753550906	voice	The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker.	18
10753551518	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	19
10753552200	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	20
10753553732	rhetorical	relationship between writer/speaker and reader/audience	21
10753557797	pathos	Appeal to emotion	22
10753557798	logos	Appeal to logic	23
10753558500	ethos	appeal to authority	24
10753559336	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	25
10753561958	hyperbole	exaggeration, overstatement for effect	26
10753563503	expressionism	20th century movement in art and literature where one explicitly says and names what's going on	27
10753565552	impressionism	A set of seemingly unrelated images is given in order to create an impression of what's going on. This term is much more commonly used in literature than Expressionism.	28
10753566679	periodic sentance	A sentence that holds the thought/reader in suspense until the end of the sentence. The main clause/predicate isn't revealed until the end of the sentence.	29
10753566680	loose sentance	The main clause is at the start of the sentence and the phrases/clauses that modify the main clause follow	30
10753568079	imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	31
10753568703	compare	Similarity between things	32
10753568704	contrast	Difference between things	33
10753571451	utopia	an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect	34
10753572595	dystopia	a failed attempt at an utopia which is often worse than things currently are	35
10753574563	science fiction	Speculative extrapolation in narrative form	36
10753575517	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality, tension between opposites	37
10753579428	verbal irony	sarcasm	38
10753580174	dramatic irony	irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.	39
10753580862	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	40
10753581873	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	41
10753582837	moral	A practical lesson about right and wrong	42
10753583676	comedy	A humorous work of drama that traditionally ends in marriage	43
10753587295	tragedy	a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character, typically ends in death	44
10753589088	exposition	A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.	45
10753589931	charecterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	46
10753591075	chorus	A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.	47
10753592002	protagonist	main character	48
10753592003	antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	49
10753593190	foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story, sometimes serves to provoke action in protag.	50
10753595726	flat character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	51
10753598561	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	52
10753600330	tragic hero	a protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to their demise	53
10753602613	hamartia	Quality/strength of a character that, when applied in the wrong situation, leads to that character's downfall	54
10753604678	classical tragic structure	the way that a typical greek tragedy is structured, including complication, climax, and then unraveling.	55
10753612892	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	56
10753612893	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	57
10753613579	mixed metaphor	a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect	58
10753615086	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	59
10753615708	Metonomy	A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").	60
10753616524	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies often through mocking and humor	61
10783739071	line break	Where a line of poetry ends	62