AP Literature Flashcards

6228468615	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6228468616	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6228468617	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6228468618	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6228468619	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6228468620	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6228468621	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6228468622	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6228468623	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6228468624	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6228468625	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6228468626	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6228468627	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6228468628	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6228468629	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6228468630	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6228468631	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6228468632	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6228468633	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6228468634	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6228468635	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6228468636	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6228468637	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6228468638	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6228468639	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6228468640	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6228468641	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6228468642	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6228468643	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6228468644	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6228468645	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6228468646	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6228468647	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6228468648	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6228468649	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6228468650	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6228468651	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6228468652	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6228468653	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6228468654	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6228468655	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6228468656	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6228468657	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6228468658	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6228468659	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6228468660	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6228468661	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6228468662	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6228468663	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6228468664	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6228468665	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	50
6228468666	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6228468667	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	52
6228468668	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6228468669	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6228468670	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6228468671	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6228468672	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6228468673	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6228468674	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6228468675	octave	8 line stanza	60
6228468676	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6228468677	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6228468678	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6228468679	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6228468680	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6228468681	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6228468682	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6228468683	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6228468684	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	69
6228468685	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6228468686	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6228468687	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6228468688	protagonist	Main character	73
6228468689	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6228468690	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6228468691	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6228468692	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6228468693	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6228468694	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6228468695	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6228468696	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6228468697	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6228468698	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6228468699	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6228468700	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6228468701	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6228468702	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6228468703	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6228468704	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6228468705	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6228468706	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6228468707	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6228468708	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6228468709	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6228468710	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6228468711	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6228468712	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6228468713	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6228468714	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6228468715	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	100