Ap Literature. Literary Terms Flashcards

4935518627	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	0
4935527593	Ambiguity	uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.	1
4935530280	Anagram	a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman. (ex. cinema, iceman)	2
4935531985	Anapestic Meter	poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed	3
4935534907	Antihero	a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes	4
4935536878	Archetype	a very typical example of a certain person or thing.	5
4935537860	Caesura	a pause near the middle of a line.	6
4935539543	Canon	the material accepted as officially part of the story in an individual universe of that story. I	7
4935541647	Catharis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions	8
4935543082	Colloquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.	9
4935544131	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	10
4935545102	Dactylic Meter	a long syllable followed by two short syllables	11
4935547561	Denouncement	the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction	12
4935549482	Didactic Poetry	it teaches or explains something such as a truth or moral.	13
4935551673	Doggerel	comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.	14
4935577809	Editorial Omniscience	omniscient narrator presents the thoughts and actions of the characters but does comment, judge, and interject opinion	15
4935579857	Electra Complex	old-fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls.	16
4935581258	Elegy	a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead	17
4935583130	Enjambment	he continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza	18
4935586533	Envoy	a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.	19
4935588915	Epigram	a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.	20
4935590286	Euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.	21
4935591045	Farce	a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.	22
4935595662	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	23
4935596834	Foot	a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.	24
4935600715	Formalist Criticism	the elements of form—style, structure, tone, imagery, and determining how such elements work together with the text's content to shape its effects upon readers.	25
4935603367	Formula Literature	the storylines and plots have been reused to the extent that the narratives are predictable	26
4935605238	Found Poem	a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning	27
4935606881	Hamartia	a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.	28
4935608208	Hybris	extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall	29
4935612061	Marxist Criticism	a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. Marxist criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate.	30
4935612856	Melodrama	a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.	31
4935614010	Metafiction	fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques.	32
4935616346	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	33
4935620492	Organic Form	he structure has originated from the materials and subjects used by the author, usually in romantic literature	34
4935622497	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	35
4935632717	Petrarchan Sonnet	consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd	36
4935633902	Postcolonial Criticsm	addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country and of a nation, especially the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated colonial peoples	37
4935636958	Problem Play	a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts.	38
4935639232	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.	39
4935642126	Pyramidal Pattern	a typical convention of some dramatic works in which the plot is divided into three parts—rising action, climax, and falling action.	40
4935645174	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes	41
4935645844	Run-On-Line	the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation	42
4935651738	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.	43
4935652892	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet.	44
4935656030	Sestina Criticism	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.	45
4935659553	Soliloquy	an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.	46
4935661333	Spondee	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	47
4935663201	Stream of Consciousness Technique	a narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind.	48
4935666437	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs	49
4935670410	Tercet	a three-lined stanza or poem that often contains a rhyme.	50
4935674196	Triplet	meaning three - lines put together that rhyme	51
4935678161	Trochaic Meter	simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.	52
4935680265	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	53