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AP Literature Terminology - Set 4 Flashcards

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3621470339MotifAn object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.0
3621470340MythA 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 phenomenon1
3621470341NarratorA person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem2
3621470342NaturalismA literary genre that started as a literary movement in late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater and art. It is a type of extreme realism3
3621470343NovelA fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism4
3621470344OxymoronA figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect5
3621486749Oxymoron (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 sonnet6
3621470345ParableA figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end7
3621470346ParallelismThe use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter8
3621507019Parralelism (Example)"To err is human; to forgive divine." -"An Essay on Ctiticism", by Alexander Pope9
3621470347ParodyAn imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect10
3621470348PathosA quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow11
3621470349PedanticSomeone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning12
3621470350PlagiarismThe practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own13
3621470351PlotA literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story14
3621470352Plot LineThe course or main features of a narrative such as the plot of a play, novel, or movie15
3621470353Poetic JusticeAn ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate16
3621470354PoetryA literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm17
3621470355AlliterationA stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series18
3621470356AssonanceTakes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds19
3621470357BalladA type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in the ancient France20
3621470358Blank VerseA literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter21
3621470359CantoOne of the sections into which certain long poems are divided.22
3621470360CaesuraA break between words within a metrical foot; a pause near the middle of the line; any interruption or break23
3621470361ConnosanceRepetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase24
3621470362ElegyA form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased25

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