ap literature terms Flashcards

5054361418	plot	the sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story	0
5054367820	confllict	a clash of actions, ideas,desires, or wills	1
5054369835	protagonist	the central character	2
5054371426	antagonist	any force arranged against the protagonist	3
5054373757	suspense	the quality in a story that makes the reader ask "what's going to happen next?"	4
5054379082	plot manipulation	a turn in the plot that is unjustified by the situation or characters	5
5054381608	deus ex machina	a plot that relies too heavily on chance or coincidence to provide a resolution to a story	6
5054386292	freytag's pyramid	a diagram that charts the structure of a dramatic work	7
5054390738	characterization	the method by which the author develops a character	8
5054394472	direct characterization	the author tells the reader directly about a character	9
5054396293	indirect characterization	the author shows the characters through their actions	10
5054399135	flat character	a character that only has one or traits	11
5054402262	round character	a character that is round and many-sided	12
5054404483	stock character	a stereotyped figure who recur in fiction so often that we recognize them at once	13
5054408684	static character	a character that does not change throughout the story	14
5054411256	dynamic character	a character that undergoes some distinct change of character, personality, or outlook	15
5054416204	epiphany	a moment of spiritual insight into life or into the character's own circumstances	16
5054418957	theme	the controlling idea or its central insight	17
5054421752	point of view	who tells the story	18
5054424237	omniscient point of view	a story told in the third person by a narrator whose knowledge and prerogatives are unlimited	19
5054429193	third person limited point of view	the story is told in the third person, but told from the point of view of one person in the story	20
5054434872	first person point of view	the author disappears into one of the characters	21
5054436511	objective point of view	the narrator disappears into a kind of roving sound camera. this camera can go anywhere but can record only what is seen or heard. it cannot comment, interpret, or enter a character's mind	22
5054448645	symbol	something that means more than what it suggests on the surface	23
5054451384	anaphora	repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines	24
5054453815	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply	25
5054459248	catharsis	some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy	26
5054464416	foil character	a minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus contrasts, sets off or illuminates the major character; most often the contrast is complementary to the major character	27
5054474554	didactic writing	poetry, fiction, or drama having as a primary purpose to teach or preach	28
5054478282	farce	a type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or plot	29
5054487039	literary fiction	fiction written with serious artistic intentions, providing an imagined experienced yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life	30
5054493384	metaphor	a figure of speech without like or as	31
5054494952	allegory	a story that has a second meaning beneath the surface, endowing a cluster of characters, objects, or events with added significance	32
5054500288	fantasy	a story that transcends the bounds of known reality	33
5054504446	magical realism	a story that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction	34
5054508674	verbal irony	a figure of speech in which the speaker says the opposite of what he or she intends to say	35
5054512818	dramatic irony	the contrast is between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true	36
5054518574	situational irony	the discrepancy is between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between what is and what would seem appropriate	37
5054525775	alliteration	the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words	38
5054531325	allusion	a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history	39
5054534840	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	40
5054540964	onomatopoeia	the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound	41
5054545651	oxymoron	a compact verbal paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict one another	42
5054549597	paradox	a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements but ultimately may indeed contain truth	43
5054558476	personification	a figure in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept	44
5054562634	realism	literature that shows or describes people and things as they are in real life	45
5054565750	sarcasm	bitter or cutting speech	46
5054567064	satire	a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform	47
5054572298	setting	the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs	48
5054576700	stream of consciousness	narrative that presents the private thought of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author	49
5054580656	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole	50
5054583113	tone	the writer's or speaker's attitude	51
5054585641	understatement	a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means	52
5054588081	hyperbole	exaggerated or overstated speech not to be taken literally	53
5054593094	bombast	high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people	54
5054595945	anachronism	a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists	55
5054599895	bildungsroman	a kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood	56
5054606768	unreliable narrator	a narrator who cannot be trusted	57
5054608630	in medias res	a story that starts in the middle of the action	58
5054610146	parody	an imitation of a particular writer, artist or genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect	59
5054616252	simile	figure of speech that uses like or as	60
5054617625	antithesis	a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect	61
5054625961	juxtaposition	a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose for developing comparisons and contrasts	62
5054636093	style	the way a writer writes and it is the technique which an individual author uses in his writing	63