3621470339 | Motif | An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work. | 0 | |
3621470340 | Myth | A legendary or a traditional story that usually concerns an event, or a hero, with or without using factual or real explanations, particularly one concerning with demigods or deities, and describes some rites, practices and natural phenomenon | 1 | |
3621470341 | Narrator | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem | 2 | |
3621470342 | Naturalism | A literary genre that started as a literary movement in late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater and art. It is a type of extreme realism | 3 | |
3621470343 | Novel | A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism | 4 | |
3621470344 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect | 5 | |
3621486749 | Oxymoron (Example) | "I find no peace, and all my war is done I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;" -Sir Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch's 134th sonnet | 6 | |
3621470345 | Parable | A figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end | 7 | |
3621470346 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter | 8 | |
3621507019 | Parralelism (Example) | "To err is human; to forgive divine." -"An Essay on Ctiticism", by Alexander Pope | 9 | |
3621470347 | Parody | An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 10 | |
3621470348 | Pathos | A quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow | 11 | |
3621470349 | Pedantic | Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning | 12 | |
3621470350 | Plagiarism | The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own | 13 | |
3621470351 | Plot | A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story | 14 | |
3621470352 | Plot Line | The course or main features of a narrative such as the plot of a play, novel, or movie | 15 | |
3621470353 | Poetic Justice | An ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate | 16 | |
3621470354 | Poetry | A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm | 17 | |
3621470355 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series | 18 | |
3621470356 | Assonance | Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | 19 | |
3621470357 | Ballad | A type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in the ancient France | 20 | |
3621470358 | Blank Verse | A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 21 | |
3621470359 | Canto | One of the sections into which certain long poems are divided. | 22 | |
3621470360 | Caesura | A break between words within a metrical foot; a pause near the middle of the line; any interruption or break | 23 | |
3621470361 | Connosance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 24 | |
3621470362 | Elegy | A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased | 25 |
AP Literature Terminology - Set 4 Flashcards
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