AP Literature Vocab Review Flashcards

4850134110	allegory	a narrative that has at least two levels of meaning	0
4850134111	antagonist	the character who usually has evil or distasteful qualities but they are not all bad	1
4850134112	denotation	a word's literal meaning	2
4850134113	connotation	association evoked by a word beyond its literal meanin	3
4850134114	detail	fact revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone	4
4850134115	dialect	regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary	5
4850134116	dialogue	character's voice	6
4850134117	first person point of view	the character tells the story as though it has happened to him	7
4850134118	foil	a character who, by contrast with the main character, serves to accentuate that character's distinctive qualities	8
4850134119	imagery	the actual language that a writer uses to convey a visual picture	9
4850134120	mood	general feeling created in the reader	10
4850134121	satire	a work that targets vices and follies for reform and ridicule	11
4850134122	suspense	what builds the reader's attention	12
4850134123	third person omniscient	the author tells the story as though he knows everything about all of the characters	13
4850134124	vocabulary	the degree of difficulty, complexity, abstractness, formality	14
4850134125	catharsis	a dramatic, serious, or complete action that allows the character to experience a "purification"	15
4850134126	conflict	a confrontation or struggle between opposing characters or forces in the plot	16
4850134127	diction	a speaker's word choice intended to convey a certain effect	17
4850134128	epiphany	insight or revelation gained	18
4850134129	indirect characterization	author presents the characters talking and acting and leaves the reader to infer the motives and dispositions that lie behind what they say and do	19
4850134130	meter	rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern	20
4850134131	protagonist	the most important or leading character in a work	21
4850134132	rhythm	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a sentence or line of poetry	22
4850134133	spatial	organization of information using cues such as top to bottom	23
4850134134	static	character stays the same throughout the work from beginning to end	24
4850134135	style	the devices the author uses to express his or her thoughts and convey the work's subject matter	25
4850134136	third person limited	the author tells the story as thought he or she can only perceive the thoughts of one of the characters	26
4850134137	chronological	order of events in which they occur	27
4850134138	direct characterization	author intervenes authoritatively in order to describe, and often to evaluate, the motives and dispositional qualities of the characters	28
4850134139	flashback	a scene that interrupts the present action of a narrative work to depict some earlier event	29
4850134140	flat	undeveloped characters	30
4850134141	foreshadowing	a technique by which an author suggests or predicts an outcome of plot	31
4850134142	hubris	arrogance before the gods	32
4850134143	round	characters that are fully developed	33
4850134144	tone	writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and audience	34
4850134145	transitional devices	techniques used to connect different events or ideas	35
4850134146	hamartia	tragic flaw	36
4850134147	motif	a unifying element in an artistic work	37
4850134148	motivation	the mixture of situation and personality that impels a character to behave the way he or she does	38
4850134149	rhyme	repetition of sounds at the end of words	39
4850134150	stock	a stereotyped character	40
4850134151	euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.	41
4850134152	visual imagery	deals with sight	42
4850134153	auditory imagery	deals with hearing	43
4850134154	tactile imagery	deals with touch	44
4850134155	papillary imagery	deals with taste	45
4850134156	olfactory imagery	deals with smell	46
4850134157	personification	the attribution of human like characters to inanimate or nonhuman things	47
4850134158	juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	48
4850134159	ellipsis	. . .	49
4850134160	apostrophe	address(location) of an inanimate object or someone who is not alive	50
4850134161	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.	51
4850134162	antithesis	a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins"	52
4850134163	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 (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	53
4850134164	allusion	brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	54
4850134165	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	55
4850134166	paradox	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth	56
4850134167	pun	a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings	57
4850134168	assonance	takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds; ex. Men sell the wedding bells.	58
4850134169	consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	59
4850134170	dramatic irony	audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before leading characters or actors	60
4850134171	situational irony	it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead	61
4850134172	verbal irony	occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to	62
4850134173	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.	63