AP Literature Vocabulary Set 7 Flashcards

11683758963	Metafiction	Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself, either by reinterpreting a previous fictional work or by drawing attention to its own fictional status. Examples of the former include John Garderner's Grendel, which retells the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf from a new perspective.	0
11683777940	Bildungsroman	A German term, meaning "formation novel," for a novel about a child or adolescent's development into maturity, with special focus on the protagonist's quest for identity. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a notable example.	1
11683792140	Novel of Manners	A novel that focuses on the social customs of a certain class of people, often with a sharp eye for irony. Jane Austen's novels are a prime example of this genre.	2
11683809562	Meiosis	An intentional understatement, as, for example in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when Mercutio is mortally wounded and says it is "only a scratch." It is the opposite of hyperbole and often employs litotes to iconic effect.	3
11683828015	Litotes	A form of understatement in which a statement is affirmed by negating its opposite: "He is not unfriendly."	4
11683835985	Non sequitur plot	More of an "anti-plot," it defies traditional logic by presenting events without any clear sequence and characters without any clear motivation. The theater of the absurd contains many examples of this plot.	5
11683845528	Parody	A humorous and often satirical limitation of the style or the particular work of another author.	6
11683851969	Pun	A double meaning or ambiguity in a word, often employed in a witty way. They are often associated by wordplay.	7
11683866722	Metonymy	The substitution of one term for another that generally is associated with it. For example, "suits" instead of "businessmen."	8
11683874700	Synecdoche	A form of metonymy in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole, for example, "my wheels," for "my car."	9