AP Literature: Quiz 3 Flashcards

3840443981	pathos	appeal to emotion	0
3840443982	pentameter	a line of five feet	1
3840445792	periodic sentence	a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense	2
3840448838	peripeteia	a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal in a tragedy	3
3840452908	personification	the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human	4
3840458442	plot	the careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect	5
3840460697	point of view	the vantage point, or stance, from which a story is told	6
3840462246	polysyndeton	the opposite of asyndeton. the use of many conjugations has a slowing effect.	7
3840465539	post-modernism	a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth.	8
3840468983	primitivism	the belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the nobel savage	9
3840472426	prosody	the study of sound and rhythm in poetry	10
3840474569	pun	a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings	11
3840477378	puritanism	extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity	12
3840479963	quatrain	a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed	13
3840482638	rationalism	the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience	14
3840485644	realism	the author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality	15
3840491325	regionalism	the tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality, re-creating as accurately as possible its unique setting, speech, customs, manners, beliefs and history	16
3840496259	rhetoric	the art of persuasion, in speaking or writing	17
3840497770	rising action	the part of a plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest and poe to the climax or turning point	18
3840501187	romanticism	literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form	19
3840503989	sarcasm	harsh, cutting, personal remarks to or about someone, not necessarily ironic	20
3840506840	satire	any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism directed at a particular folly, vice or stupidity. satire seeks to correct, improve, or reform through ridicule	21
3840513421	setting	the general locale, time in history, or social milieu in which the action takes place	22
3840516130	simile	a less direct metaphor, using like or as	23
3840517823	situational irony	the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs	24
3840519672	slant rhyme	inexact rhyme between two words	25
3840521422	soliloquy	a speech by one character while alone on the stage or under the impression of being alone	26
3840525050	sonnet	a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter	27
3840527293	speaker's attitude	the speaker's viewpoint regarding his subject matter	28
3840529810	stanza	a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose	29
3840532309	stock character	a stereotyped character; one familiar to use from examples in previous fiction	30
3840535070	stream of consciousness	a technique in which the reader sees the continuous, chaotic flow of a character's thoughts	31
3840538597	structure	the pattern of organization	32
3840539892	style	how the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text	33
3840544924	surrealism	employs illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious	34
3840548312	syllogism	a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion (A=B B=C A=C)	35
3840611555	symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it	36
3840613611	synathesia	the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another	37
3840627970	synecdoche	figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of a whole	38
3840629623	syntax	the rules or patterns of grammatical language	39
3840631060	theme	an abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter	40
3840634041	title character	a character who gives his/her name to the work	41
3840635566	tone	the reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject	42
3840637439	tragedy	a drama in which the protagonist, a person of high position, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgement or flaw in his or her nature	43
3840642611	tragic flaw	the defect of a character that brings about the protagonist's downfall in a tragedy	44
3840645529	transcendentalism	the american version of romanticism; held that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature -- a spark of divinity	45
3840651669	trope	any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense	46
3840655090	unity of action	a tragedy that has one main action that it follows with no or few subplots	47
3840657351	verbal irony	a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant	48
3840659632	verisimilitude	the appearance or semblance of truth	49
3840662451	villanelle	a lyric poem made up of five stanzas of three lines, plus a final stanza of four lines	50
3840665839	voice	how a written work conveys to a reader of the writer's attitude, personality, and character	51
3840669516	wit	ingenuity in connecting amusingly incongruous ideas; intellect, humor	52