7718636522 | Invective | Highly critical language | ![]() | 0 |
7718639455 | Monologue | A long speech by one actor in a play or movie | ![]() | 1 |
7718641063 | Proverb | Stating a general truth or piece of advice | ![]() | 2 |
7718644064 | Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word | ![]() | 3 |
7718646513 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock | ![]() | 4 |
7718651366 | Soliloquy | Speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers | ![]() | 5 |
7718655842 | Slang | Type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal | ![]() | 6 |
7718661241 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, than it actually is | ![]() | 7 |
7718663715 | Idiom | A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | ![]() | 8 |
7718668335 | Irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite | ![]() | 9 |
7718669992 | Dramatic Irony | The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience | ![]() | 10 |
7718679509 | Verbal Irony | Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another | ![]() | 11 |
7718688220 | Situational Irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended | ![]() | 12 |
7718692579 | Epistolary novel | Written as a series of documents | ![]() | 13 |
7718699710 | First Person pov | narrative is a point of view, where the story is narrated by one character at a time | ![]() | 14 |
7718702743 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, set in a time earlier than the main story. | ![]() | 15 |
7718709771 | Flash forward | Takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature | ![]() | 16 |
7718715469 | In medias res | into the middle of a narrative | ![]() | 17 |
7718718861 | Limited | Restricted in size | ![]() | 18 |
7718722804 | Omniscient Pov | Narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters | ![]() | 19 |
7718726971 | Linear Structure | Appears under a variety of names depending on storage representation and its intended use | ![]() | 20 |
AP Literature Terminology Oct. 17 Flashcards
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