{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/tp-literary-terms",
 "id": "tp-literary-terms",
 "title": "Literature and Rhetoric Terms",
 "category": "test-prep",
 "subject": "English Literature",
 "levels": [
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Literary devices, poetic forms and rhetorical terms used in AP English and college courses.",
 "tags": [
  "ap",
  "literature",
  "rhetoric"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Allegory",
   "A story whose characters and events stand for deeper ideas"
  ],
  [
   "Alliteration",
   "Repeating beginning consonant sounds"
  ],
  [
   "Allusion",
   "A brief reference to a known person, place or work"
  ],
  [
   "Ambiguity",
   "Deliberate use of more than one possible meaning"
  ],
  [
   "Anachronism",
   "Something placed in the wrong time period"
  ],
  [
   "Analogy",
   "A comparison to explain something by likeness"
  ],
  [
   "Anaphora",
   "Repeating a word or phrase at the start of successive lines or sentences"
  ],
  [
   "Antagonist",
   "The character or force opposing the protagonist"
  ],
  [
   "Antithesis",
   "Placing opposite ideas in balanced phrases"
  ],
  [
   "Aphorism",
   "A short statement of a general truth"
  ],
  [
   "Apostrophe",
   "Directly addressing an absent person or thing"
  ],
  [
   "Assonance",
   "Repetition of vowel sounds"
  ],
  [
   "Bildungsroman",
   "A novel about a character's growth to adulthood"
  ],
  [
   "Blank verse",
   "Unrhymed iambic pentameter"
  ],
  [
   "Caesura",
   "A pause within a line of poetry"
  ],
  [
   "Characterization",
   "How an author creates and develops a character"
  ],
  [
   "Climax",
   "The turning point of highest tension"
  ],
  [
   "Colloquialism",
   "Informal everyday expression"
  ],
  [
   "Conceit",
   "An elaborate, extended metaphor"
  ],
  [
   "Connotation",
   "The feelings a word suggests beyond its literal meaning"
  ],
  [
   "Denotation",
   "The literal dictionary meaning"
  ],
  [
   "Consonance",
   "Repetition of consonant sounds within or at ends of words"
  ],
  [
   "Couplet",
   "Two rhymed lines"
  ],
  [
   "Deus ex machina",
   "A sudden unexpected event that solves a plot problem"
  ],
  [
   "Diction",
   "An author's word choice"
  ],
  [
   "Didactic",
   "Intended to teach a lesson"
  ],
  [
   "Dramatic irony",
   "The audience knows something the characters do not"
  ],
  [
   "Elegy",
   "A poem of mourning"
  ],
  [
   "Ellipsis",
   "The omission of words, or the three dots marking it"
  ],
  [
   "End-stopped line",
   "A line whose thought ends with the line"
  ],
  [
   "Enjambment",
   "A sentence continuing past the end of a line"
  ],
  [
   "Epic",
   "A long narrative poem about heroic deeds"
  ],
  [
   "Epigraph",
   "A quotation placed at the start of a work"
  ],
  [
   "Epistolary novel",
   "A novel told through letters or documents"
  ],
  [
   "Euphemism",
   "A mild word replacing a harsh one"
  ],
  [
   "Exposition",
   "Background information at a story's start"
  ],
  [
   "Extended metaphor",
   "A metaphor developed over several lines"
  ],
  [
   "Falling action",
   "Events after the climax"
  ],
  [
   "Figurative language",
   "Language meant to be understood beyond its literal sense"
  ],
  [
   "First-person narrator",
   "A narrator who tells the story as 'I'"
  ],
  [
   "Flashback",
   "A scene from an earlier time"
  ],
  [
   "Foil",
   "A character who contrasts with another to highlight traits"
  ],
  [
   "Foreshadowing",
   "Hints about what will happen later"
  ],
  [
   "Frame story",
   "A story that contains other stories"
  ],
  [
   "Free verse",
   "Poetry without regular rhyme or meter"
  ],
  [
   "Genre",
   "A category of literature"
  ],
  [
   "Gothic",
   "Fiction with gloomy settings and mystery"
  ],
  [
   "Hyperbole",
   "Deliberate exaggeration"
  ],
  [
   "Iambic pentameter",
   "Ten-syllable line of five unstressed-stressed pairs"
  ],
  [
   "Imagery",
   "Language appealing to the senses"
  ],
  [
   "In medias res",
   "Beginning a story in the middle of the action"
  ],
  [
   "Irony",
   "A contrast between expectation and reality"
  ],
  [
   "Juxtaposition",
   "Placing contrasting things side by side"
  ],
  [
   "Litotes",
   "Understatement using a negative, like 'not bad'"
  ],
  [
   "Metaphor",
   "A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'"
  ],
  [
   "Metonymy",
   "Using a related thing to stand for something, like 'the crown' for a king"
  ],
  [
   "Mood",
   "The feeling a work creates in the reader"
  ],
  [
   "Motif",
   "A recurring element that supports a theme"
  ],
  [
   "Narrative arc",
   "The shape of a story's development"
  ],
  [
   "Ode",
   "A lyric poem praising a subject"
  ],
  [
   "Onomatopoeia",
   "A word that imitates a sound"
  ],
  [
   "Oxymoron",
   "Two contradictory words together"
  ],
  [
   "Parable",
   "A short story teaching a moral lesson"
  ],
  [
   "Paradox",
   "A statement that seems contradictory but reveals truth"
  ],
  [
   "Parallelism",
   "Repeating similar grammatical structure"
  ],
  [
   "Parody",
   "An imitation meant to mock or amuse"
  ],
  [
   "Pathos",
   "An appeal to emotion"
  ],
  [
   "Ethos",
   "An appeal based on credibility"
  ],
  [
   "Logos",
   "An appeal based on logic"
  ],
  [
   "Personification",
   "Giving human traits to non-human things"
  ],
  [
   "Point of view",
   "The perspective from which a story is told"
  ],
  [
   "Third-person omniscient",
   "A narrator who knows all characters' thoughts"
  ],
  [
   "Third-person limited",
   "A narrator who knows one character's thoughts"
  ],
  [
   "Protagonist",
   "The main character"
  ],
  [
   "Pun",
   "A play on words"
  ],
  [
   "Quatrain",
   "A four-line stanza"
  ],
  [
   "Refrain",
   "A repeated line or phrase"
  ],
  [
   "Rhetorical question",
   "A question asked for effect, not an answer"
  ],
  [
   "Rhyme scheme",
   "The pattern of rhymes at line ends"
  ],
  [
   "Rising action",
   "Events building toward the climax"
  ],
  [
   "Satire",
   "Using humor and exaggeration to criticize"
  ],
  [
   "Setting",
   "The time and place of a story"
  ],
  [
   "Simile",
   "A comparison using 'like' or 'as'"
  ],
  [
   "Soliloquy",
   "A speech in which a character speaks thoughts aloud alone"
  ],
  [
   "Sonnet",
   "A fourteen-line poem"
  ],
  [
   "Stanza",
   "A group of lines in a poem"
  ],
  [
   "Stream of consciousness",
   "A narrative style following a character's flowing thoughts"
  ],
  [
   "Symbol",
   "An object that stands for a larger idea"
  ],
  [
   "Synecdoche",
   "A part standing for the whole, like 'hands' for workers"
  ],
  [
   "Syntax",
   "The arrangement of words in sentences"
  ],
  [
   "Theme",
   "A central idea of a work"
  ],
  [
   "Tone",
   "The author's attitude toward the subject"
  ],
  [
   "Tragedy",
   "A drama of a hero's downfall"
  ],
  [
   "Tragic flaw",
   "A trait that leads to a hero's ruin"
  ],
  [
   "Understatement",
   "Describing something as less than it is"
  ],
  [
   "Unreliable narrator",
   "A narrator whose account cannot be fully trusted"
  ],
  [
   "Utopia",
   "An imagined perfect society"
  ],
  [
   "Dystopia",
   "An imagined society marked by suffering or oppression"
  ],
  [
   "Voice",
   "The distinctive style of a writer or narrator"
  ],
  [
   "Zeugma",
   "One word applied to two others in different senses"
  ]
 ]
}