AP Literature Column 4 Flashcards

2336965239	Rhetorical Question	A question asked to produce an effect rather than to elicit a reply	0
2336965240	Rhyme Scheme	A pattern of rhymes often indicated by letters	1
2336965241	End Rhyme	Rhymes at the end of lines	2
2336965242	Feminine Rhyme	Rhymes with two or more syllables where the final syllable or syllables are unstressed	3
2336965243	Masculine Rhyme	The final syllable is stressed	4
2336965244	Half Rhyme/Slant Rhyme	Words that sound the same/close but don't exactly rhyme.	5
2336965245	Internal Rhyme	Rhymes within the lines, not just at the end	6
2336965246	Rhymed Couplet	Two lines that rhyme and have the same meter usually at the end of a verse	7
2336965247	Rhymed Verse	Poetry that rhymes and usually includes meter	8
2336965248	Rhythm	The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables that create a beat	9
2336965249	Rising Action	Series of events in a plot that lead to the climax or point of no return	10
2336965250	Romance	When the piece depicts imaginary, fantastical, or deeds of pageantry	11
2336965251	Romanticism	Era of literature dealing with the imaginary, fantastical. Focus is often God in nature	12
2336965252	Run-on Line	In poetry, when the thought carries over to the next line	13
2336965253	Sarcasm	Saying one thing and meaning the opposite to create a tone intended to ridicule	14
2336965254	Satire	Ridiculing in a funny manner in order to correct a problem	15
2336965255	Scansion	The process of figuring out the stress in a line of poetry in order to figure out the metrical pattern	16
2336965256	Sentimentality	Effort by the writer to include emotional response that exceed what the situation warrants	17
2336965257	Sestet	A stanza with six lines	18
2336965258	Setting	Time period and location of story	19
2336965259	Short Story	A piece that is not long enough to be a novel but has significant plot structure	20
2336965260	Situational Irony	When what happens is the opposite of what you expect	21
2336965261	Social Protest	A declaration against something a person is often powerless to prevent	22
2336965262	Soliloquy	When a character speaks his/her thoughts alone on stage	23
2336965263	Sonnet	A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. English form and Italian form	24
2336965264	Spondee	A foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed	25
2336965265	Stanza	An arrangement of a certain number of lines in poetry	26
2336965266	Stock Characters	A character that is so common in literature that it requires no development on the part of the author (the cowboy, the evil step-mother)	27
2336965267	Stream of Consciousness	A genre of writing where the narrator speaks only in interior monologue; you follow every thought they have	28
2336965268	Stress	Where the accent is strongest in a foot of poetry	29
2336965269	Structure	The organization of all parts and how they are arranged	30
2336965270	Style	A particular or distinctive mode or manner of writing	31
2336965271	Subplot	A secondary/subordinate plot to the main one	32
2336965272	Syllogism	An extremely subtle and sophisticated argument (often descriptive)	33
2336965273	Symbol	When something stands for something in else in a particular work	34
2336965274	Synesthesia	Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another (a loud color, a sweet sound)	35
2336965275	Synecdoche	When part of something represents the whole. "Ten sails" is used to talk about ten ships, "wagging tongue" is used to describe a person who talks too much, etc.	36
2336965276	Syntax	The patterns and formations of sentences or phrases	37
2336965277	Terza Rima	Italian form of iambic verse	38
2336965278	Theme	The over-all meaning of a piece, it's message	39
2336965279	Thesis	The primary position taken by a writer or speaker	40
2336965280	Tone	The feeling that writer creates towards the subject	41
2336965281	Tragedy	When the protagonist is engaged in a struggle and which often ends in ruin	42
2336965282	Tragic/Fatal Flaw	A character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist	43
2336965283	Transcendentalism	An Era of writing that focused on personal and intuitive thought to discover truth	44
2336965284	Trochaic/Trochee	A foot of two syllables, stressed/unstressed	45
2336965285	Travesty	A composition so inferior in quality that it is seen as a grotesque imitation of its model	46
2336965286	Trope	A commonly recurring motif, not quite as bad as a cliché	47
2336965287	Truncation	The omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or end of a line	48
2336965288	Verbal Irony	When you say one thing and mean the opposite (close to sarcasm)	49
2336965289	Verisimilitude	The appearance of truth only	50
2336965290	Voice	The expression given to a piece	51
2336965291	Zeugma	The use of a word to modify two or more words when it modifies them in different ways. (On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.)	52