AP Perrine Fiction Terms Flashcards

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1810354514	allegory	a narrative that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating each literal term to a fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral principle	0
1810354515	antagonist	any force in a story or play that is in conflict with the protagonist	1
1810354516	artistic unity	that condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose	2
1810354517	chance	the occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause in antecedent events or in predisposition of character	3
1810354518	characterization	the various literary means by which characters are presented	4
1810354519	climax	the turning point or high point in a plot	5
1810354520	coincidence	the chance concurrence of two events having a peculiar correspondence between them	6
1810354521	commercial fiction	fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste	7
1810354522	conflict	a clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama	8
1810354523	deus ex machine	resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence	9
1810354524	developing/dynamic character	a character who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change in some distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits or outlook	10
1810354525	dilemma	a situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable	11
1810354526	direct presentation	method of characterization in which the author, by exposition or analysis, tells us directly what a character is like, or has someone else in the story do so	12
1810354527	dramatic irony	an incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what a reader knows to be true (or between what a character perceives and what the author intends the reader to perceive)	13
1810354528	dramatization	the presentation of character or of emotion through the speech or action of characters rather than through exposition, analyses, or description by the author	14
1810354529	editorialize	writing that departs from the narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or feel about the events of a story or the behavior of a character	15
1810354530	epiphany	moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances	16
1810354531	falling action	the segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion	17
1810354532	fantasy	a kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality	18
1810354533	first-person point of view	the story is told by one of its character, using the first-person	19
1810354534	flat characters	a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are summed up in one or two traits	20
1810354535	happy ending	an ending in which events turn out well for a sympathetic protagonist	21
1810354536	indeterminate ending	an ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved	22
1810354537	indirect presentation	that method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like from what is said or done by the character	23
1810354538	irony	a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy	24
1810354539	irony of situation	a situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate	25
1810354540	literary fiction	fiction written with serious artistic intentions, providing an imagined experience yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life	26
1810354541	motivation	incentives or goals that, in combination with the inherent natures of characters, cause them to behave as they do	27
1810354542	mystery	an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader crave an explanation; used to create suspense	28
1810354543	objective/dramatic point of view	author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or od; the author doesn't interpret	29
1810354544	omniscient point of view	author tells the story using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why the act as they do	30
1810354545	plot	sequence of incidents or events of which a story or play is composed	31
1810354546	plot manipulation	a situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceded action or by the characters involved	32
1810354547	poetize	writing that uses immoderately heightened or distended language to sway the reader's feelings	33
1810354548	point of view	the angle of vision from a story is told	34
1810354549	protagonist	central character in a story	35
1810354550	rising action	that development of plot in a story or play that precedes and leads up to the climax	36
1810354551	round characters	a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are complex and many-sided	37
1810354552	sarcasm	bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed	38
1810354553	sentimentality	unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality	39
1810354554	static character	a character who is the same sort of person at the end of a work as at the beginning	40
1810354555	stock character	a stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous literature	41
1810354556	stream of consciousness	narrative that presents the privat thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author	42
1810354557	structure	sequential arrangement of plot elements in fiction or drama	43
1810354558	surprise	an unexpected turn in the development of a plot	44
1810354559	surprise ending	a completely unexpected revelation or turn of plot at the conclusion of a story or play	45
1810354560	suspense	that quality in a story or play that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end	46
1810354561	symbol	something that means more than what it is	47
1810354562	theme	central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work	48
1810354563	third-person limited point of view	the author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, and hears	49
1810354564	unhappy ending	an ending that turns out unhappily for a sympathetic protagonist	50
1810354565	verbal irony	a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	51