AP Literature Unit 12 Vocabulary Flashcards

2131963657	denouement	(day-noo-mon) the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the events following the climax of a drama or novel	0
2131963659	kennings	compound expression that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun (Examples: "storm of swords" = battle, "the pathless deep" = ocean, "wave-skimmer" = ship)	1
2131963660	trope	a figure of speech using words in non-literal ways; literally, "a turning away" (Examples: metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, etc.)	2
2132125941	in medias res	(mey-dee-ahs reys) literally "in the middle of things"; starting a narrative in the middle of the action (Example: Iliad begins after Trojan war has been raging for 7 years.)	3
2132125942	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	4
2132125943	omniscient narrator	a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters	5
2132125944	limited omniscient narrator	a third-person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees	6
2132125945	first-person narrator	a narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his/her point of view	7
2132125946	objective narrator	third person narrator reports what would be visible to a camera; feelings and thoughts revealed only through dialogue; author's feelings left out	8
2132125947	stream of consciousness	a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	9