AP Literature Vocab 15 Flashcards

4758422046	Pastoral	a literary work that has to do with shepherds and rustic settings.	0
4758422047	Pathos	Greek term for deep emotion, passion, or suffering. When applied to literature, its meaning is usually narrowed to refer to tragic emotions, describing the language and situations which deeply move the audience or reader by arousing sadness, sympathy, or pity. Appeal to emotions	1
4758422048	Ethos	Appeal to ethics	2
4758422049	Logos	Appeal to logic	3
4758422050	Personification	figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given qualities of speech and/or movement.	4
4758422051	Playwright	a person who writes a play	5
4758422052	Plot	the structure of a story or the sequence in which the author arranges events. The structure of a five-act play often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. The plot may have a protagonist who is opposed by antagonist, creating conflict. A plot may include flashback, or it may include a subplot, which is a mirror image of the main plot.	6
4758422053	Third Person Point of View	Story told from 3rd person point of view uses he and/or she to tell the story	7
4758422054	Polysyndeton	The repetition of a number of conjunctions in close succession, as in, "We have men and arms and planes and tanks."	8
4758422055	Prose	all for of written expression not having a regular rhythmical pattern	9