AP Literature Flashcards

4318934104	In medias res	To be put in the middle, places reader immediatly into the action	0
4318934105	Subplot	Secondary plot that explores ideas that are different from the main story line	1
4318934106	Foil	A character who provides an opportunity for comparison and contrast	2
4318934107	Aristotelian tragic hero	Of noble birth, larger than life, basically good, exhibits fatal flaw, makes an error in judgement, possesses excessive arrogance or pride, brings about own downfall, has moment of realization, suffers	3
4318934108	Romantic hero	Larger than life, charismatic, possesses air of mystery, "saves the day" or heroine, embodies freedom, adventure, and idealism, often outside the law	4
4318934109	Modern hero	May be everyman, has human weaknesses, caught in the ironies of human condition, struggles for insight	5
4318934110	Hemingway hero	Brave, endures, maintains sense of humor, grace under pressure	6
4318934111	Antihero	Protagonist lacking heroic qualities	7
4318934112	Stream of consciousness	Places the reader in the mind and thought of the narrator, no matter how random and spontaneous that may be	8
4318934113	Epistolary	Novel that utilizes the convention of letter writing	9
4318934114	Picaresque	Novel that for uses on the misadventures of a young rogue	10
4318934115	Gothic	Novel concerned with the supernatural and exotic	11
4318934116	Allegorical	Never that is representative and symbolic. Can be understood on two levels	12
4318934117	Denotation	The literal meaning of a word or phrase	13
4318934118	Sardonic	Mocking/cynical	14
4318934119	Vituperative	Bitter and abusive	15
4318934120	Facetious	Treating a serious issue with humor	16
4318934121	Pedantic	Intending to match or compliment another	17
4318934122	Didactic	Intending to teach a moral lesson	18
4318934123	Laudatory	Expressing praise or commendation	19
4318934124	Idyllic	Happy/peaceful	20
4318934125	Lugubrious	Sad/dismal	21
4318934126	Elegiac	Mournful quality	22
4318934127	Macabre	Disturbing/horrifying	23
4318934128	Jingoistic	Extreme patriotism	24
4320044332	Scansion	Analysis of a poem's form and meter	25
4320044333	Iamb	Unstressed, stressed	26
4320044334	Trochee	Stressed, unstressed	27
4320044335	Anapest	Unstressed, unstressed, stressed	28
4320044336	Dactyl	Stressed, unstressed, unstressed	29
4320044337	Spondee	Stressed, stressed	30
4320044338	Monometer	1 foot	31
4320044339	Dimeter	2 feet	32
4320044340	Trimeter	3 feet	33
4320044341	Tetrameter	4 feet	34
4320044342	Couplet	2 lines	35
4320044343	Tercet	3 lines	36
4320044344	Ode	Formal lyric poem that addresses subjects of elevated stature	37
4320044345	Ballad	Narrative, originally sung, simple, employs dialogue-religion-minor characters, written in quatrains, basic rhyme, has a refrain, two lines of iambic tetrameter which alternate with two lines of iambic trimeter	38
4320044346	Lyric	Highly personal, emotional, melodious	39
4320044347	Elegy	Formal lyric poem written in honor of one who had died	40
4320044348	Dramatic monologue	Relates an episode in a speakers life through a controversial format that reveals the character of the speaker	41
4320044349	Sonnet	Usually written in iambic pentameter, always 14 lines	42
4320044350	Italian Sonnet	Divided into an octave and a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde. Usually arranged as general to specific, compare and contrast, question and answer, cause and effect, or before and after	43
4320044351	Shakespearean Sonnet	Divided into 3 quatrains and then a couplet. Follows rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. The couplet is either a summery, conclusion, or universal statement	44
4320044352	Villanelle	6 stanza, 5 ter cents, and a final quatrain p. Has two refrains. The 1st and last lines of the first stanza alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas a then form a coup,et in the quatrain	45
4320044353	Anapest	A metrical pattern of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented	46
4320044354	Apostrophe	Direct address in poetry	47
4320044355	Aubade	A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved	48
4320044356	Caesura	A break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning	49
4320044357	Dues ex machina	"The god from the machine" meaning someone who appears at last moment and resolves the loose ends of the play . Today refers who someone who resolves the key to the plot	50
4320044358	Epigram	A brief witty poem	51
4320044359	Magical realism	Type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world	52
4320044360	Metaphysical poetry	Work of poets who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox	53
4320044361	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea ("the pen is mightier than the sword")	54
4320044362	Romanticism	A style or movement of literature that has its foundation and interest in freedom, adventure, idealism, and escape	55
4320044363	Soliloquy	A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts o the audience	56
4320044364	Synecdoche	A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole	57
4320044365	Anaphora	Replacing a word to avoid repetition or religion of the first part of a sentence	58
4320044366	Asyndeton	Omission of absence of conjunctions between sentences	59