AP Lit Terms Set 2 (15 Words) Flashcards
What is similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words, especially in a line of verse:
Example:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
assonance
These lines contain examples of?
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires..
antithesis
This verse is an example of the poet’s implementation of :
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
anaphora
Leo Tolstoy starts Anna Karenina with the line below, and it is an example of the author using ?
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
aphorism
What is it called when an author omits the conjunctions that would ordinarily coordinate words and phrases , as in “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”?
asyndeton
A poem about morning is called an
aubade
When a writer employs word choices that appeal to the ear in order to help you “hear” what is being described or expressed, they are using
auditory imagery
A novel in which the writer shows the development of its central character from childhood to maturity is called a/an
bildungsroman
When a writer implements a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds to create a discordinant effect, it is called
cacophony
A method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work is called
characterization
Addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present - like to a god, ghost. or some supernatural thing, like Death, Night, or Fate.
apostrophe
The intentional use of elevated language to describe the trivial or commonplace, or a sudden transition from a significant thought to a trivial one in order to achieve a humorous or satric effect.
anti-climax
a figure of speech in which a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in parallel arrangements of words and phrases.
antithesis
This segment of verse shows an example of:
Your bags were packed
and left at the door, the vase you
filled with shells, wrapped in tissue,
your books boxed.
asyndeton - ….the vase you filled with shells, wrapped in tissue, your books boxed.
The hard K, G, and B sounds in the following excerpt create?
“Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn.”
cacophony
static character
a character who is the same sort of person at the end of the story as they were at the beginning.
stock character
stereotyped character; one whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous fiction.
syllogism
the underlying structure of deductive reasoning, having a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion based on logic. They are either valid or invalid.
symbol
anything that stands for or represents something else.
symbolism
using an image to represent an idea (i.e. storms often represent impending disaster).
synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part (i.e. wheels for an automobile).
synesthesia
the perception or description of one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe a different sense, like a “sweet voice” or “velvety smile”.
theme
an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity. Provides an answer to a question “What is the work about?”
tone
expresses the author’s attitude toward his or her subject.
tragedy
depicts the downfall or destruction of a character.
