8634613612 | plot | a sequence of incidents or events of which a story or play is composed | 0 | |
8634613949 | Plot Manipulation | a situation in which an author gives the plot a twist by proceeding action or by the characters involved | 1 | |
8634614881 | Poeticizing | writing that uses immoderately heightened language to sway the reader's feelings | 2 | |
8634614882 | point of view | the angle of vision from which the story is told | 3 | |
8634616615 | omniscent | third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do | 4 | |
8634617260 | third person limited | third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character thinks, feels, sees, hears. | 5 | |
8634617929 | first person | the story is told by one of its characters using the first person | 6 | |
8634618309 | objective | third person, but limited to reporting what the characters say or do | 7 | |
8634618310 | prose meaning | that part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase | 8 | |
8634619043 | prose poem | usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse | 9 | |
8634619713 | protagonist | central character in a story or play | 10 | |
8634620152 | quatrain | a four-line stanza, a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by it's rhyme scheme | 11 | |
8634620153 | realistic drama | drama that attempts to preserve the illusion of actual, everyday life | 12 | |
8634620816 | refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines, normally at some fixed position on a poem written in stanzaic form | 13 | |
8634621385 | rhetorical pause | a natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into a reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax | 14 | |
8634621789 | rhetorical poetry | poetry using using artificially eloquent language | 15 | |
8634621790 | rhetorical stress | in natural speech, the stress of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure | 16 | |
8634622558 | rhyme | repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important words | 17 | |
8634623347 | rhyme scheme | any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem | 18 | |
8634627603 | rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 19 | |
8634689601 | rising action | that development of plot in a story or play that proceeds and leads unto the climax | 20 | |
8634690971 | run-on line | a line that has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow unninteruptedly into the succeeding line | 21 |
AP Literature Week 13 Flashcards
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