AP Literature Terms 61-80 Flashcards

The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test

4189144871	Paraphrase	To restate phrases and sentences in your own words.	0
4189144872	Parody	The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness.	1
4189144873	Pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds.	2
4189144874	Persona	The narrator in a non first-person novel.	3
4189144875	Personification	When an inanimate object takes on human attributes.	4
4189144876	Point of View	The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented.	5
4189144877	Omniscient	A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on.	6
4189144878	Limited Omniscient	A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.	7
4189144879	Objective	A thrid person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. Does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks it.	8
4189144880	First person	A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view.	9
4189144881	Stream of Consciousness	Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness.	10
4189144882	Protagonist	The main character of a novel or play	11
4189144883	Pun	The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	12
4189144884	Refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	13
4189144885	Rhetorical question	A question that suggests an answer.	14
4189144886	Satire	Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common.	15
4189144887	Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts.	16
4189144888	Stanza	A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose.	17
4189144889	Stock characters	Standard or cliched character types.	18
4189144890	Suspension of disbelief	The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination.	19