AP Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

4938822062	Four genres of literature	1. Short Story 2. Novel 3. Poetry 4. Drama	0
4938831633	Prose	the literary medium which is like everyday speech	1
4938833787	Fiction	literature which is an imaginary creation not based in actual fact or experience	2
4938836418	Short Story	a brief, invented prose narrative. it deals with only a few characters. It involves a single action. It has a unity of effect that stresses mood over plot.	3
4938841900	Novel	an invented prose narrative of considerable length and complexity which deals with human experience and a group of characters in a given setting or settings.	4
4938855005	Satire	any literature composition which points out some human foible or vice and ridicules or pokes fun at it often in order to improve it	5
4938875266	Parody	the imitation and intentional exaggeration of someone's writing style	6
4938877189	Style	the mode and form of expression as opposed to the content or the message	7
4938878832	Suspense	the creation of feelings of anxiety or apprehension in literature	8
4938881152	Irony	the creation of effect when events or states of affairs in literature are the opposite of what was expected	9
4938890017	Paradox	when something seems false, untrue, or opposed to common sense, but which is in fact true	10
4938894981	Pathos	the process of evoking pity or compassion	11
4938897858	Flashback	the interrupting of ongoing events to present events which transpired earlier	12
4938901701	Foreshadowing	the presenting of an indication of what is to come later in the work of fiction	13