AP Literature: Course Terms Flashcards

5853666486	Tone	the attitude a writer conveys towards his or her subject and audience	0
5853668904	Theme	A central or dominant idea advanced by a literary work and revealed through plot, characters, setting, point of view, and symbols	1
5853675795	Mood	the emotional content of a scene or setting	2
5853677260	Allusion	a reference in literature to an even or person in history, myth, or other piece of literature	3
5853682617	Analogy	a comparison between two things	4
5853685412	conceit	an imaginative figure of speech drawing an analogy between two things	5
5853687075	metaphor	comparison between two unlike things without "like" or "as"	6
5853691918	simile	comparison using "like" or "as"	7
5853693634	epic simile	an extended and elaborate simile	8
5853695371	euphemism	a mild word or phrase	9
5853696401	hyperbole	exaggeration	10
5853696402	oxymoron	combines contradictory words and meaning for special effect	11
5853700013	paradox	statement that seems contradictory on the surface, but both statements are actually true	12
5853708564	personification	giving an inanimate object human attributes or feelings	13
5853710824	apostrophe	form of direct address	14
5853712494	irony	a discrepancy between what appears to be and what really is	15
5853715359	verbal irony	opposite of what is said	16
5853717435	dramatic irony	audience is aware of something that the characters are not	17
5853722187	situational irony	discrepancy between what someone expects to happen vs what actually does	18
5853725243	metonymy	when one thing is represented by another thing associated with it	19
5853727985	synecdoche	type of symbolism in which a part of a thing represents that thing itself	20
5853735414	pun	a play on words	21
5853737372	understatement	saying less than one means	22
5853738665	litotes	form of understatement which is the assertion of an affirmative by negating it	23
5853744815	symbol	when a char., obj., name or incident maintains its literal meaning while suggesting other meanings	24
5853750779	epithet	an adj. or phrase expressing some quality which is characteristic of a person or thing	25
5853754804	alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sounds	26
5853756637	consonance	neighboring words repeat same consonant sound but not at the beginning	27
5853758579	assonance	repetition of internal vowel sounds usually close together for a humorous effect	28
5853761701	onomatopoeia	any word that sounds like what it names	29
5853766086	syntax	the author's manipulation of sentence structure	30
5853767593	parallelism	repeated grammatical patterns	31
5853770008	antithesis	one term is balanced against another for emphasis	32
5853772910	inverted syntax	normal order of words are reversed	33
5853778230	cumulative syntax	independent clause is followed by details, qualifications, or modifications	34
5853780686	periodic syntax	begins with details which then build up to the main clause	35
5853786027	declarative sentence	states a fact or an argument	36
5853787812	interrogative sentence	asks a direct questions	37
5853789501	imperative sentence	direct command	38
5853791596	exclamatory sentence	makes a statement while conveying excitement or emotion	39
5853797614	subject	noun or noun phrase performing the action	40
5853798946	direct object	action of verb is performed or toward it	41
5853801018	indirect object	word or group of words representing the person of thing which reference to which the action of a verb is performed	42
5853807028	appositive	noun (phrase, series of em) placed next to a word or phrase to identify or rename it set off by commas, parenthesis or dashes	43
5853812775	ambiguous	meaning cannot be definitely determined	44
5853816279	abstract	lacks vivid detail	45
5853817498	concrete	statements rich in specific detail	46
5853819396	connotation	associated feelings implied by words or phrases	47
5853822538	imagery	passages or words that appeal to the five senses	48
5853825651	dialect	variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation	49
5853828839	diction	word choice	50
5853830116	anecdote	short, often biographical, narrative of an interesting or amusing incident used to elaborate a point	51
5853836185	motif	pattern of recurring identical or similar images, actions, or ideas	52
5853839622	exposition	the presentation of essential info. regarding what happened before the start of a narrative	53
5853846521	inciting incident	event that starts the plot	54
5853848155	rising action	conflict leading to the climax	55
5853850054	climax	builds as the conflict becomes intense and complex; protagonist makes a conscious decision which enables him/her to resolve the primary conflict	56
5853857056	anticlimax	writer drops from serious and elevated to the trivial and lowly in order to achieve a humorous effect	57
5853864692	denouement	resolution of the conflicts	58
5853867675	setting	time and place	59
5853868679	conflict	antagonism between opposing characters or forces that causes tension/suspense	60
5853871323	in media res	begins at a critical point then has flashbacks	61
5853874456	deus ex machina	superhuman force resolves a conflict	62
5853877205	flashback	relates back to past events	63
5853879239	frame narrative	story within a story	64
5853881099	foreshadowing	intentional clues about what will happen later on	65
5853883184	epiphany	moment of insight or revelation	66
5853886488	catharsis	emotional release of fear and/or pity that the audience experiences in sympathy with the protagonist	67
5853890044	epigraph	quotation at the beginning of a piece	68
5853893779	epilogue	concluding section	69
5853893780	subtext	implied but unspoken	70
5853897503	protagonist	main character	71
5853897504	hero	embodies traditional qualities	72
5853898691	antihero	lacks the typical moral characteristics	73
5853900148	byronic hero	antihero that is romanticized but a wicked character	74
5853901937	tragic hero	brings about their own downfall	75
5853905060	antagonist	character that opposes the protagonist or central figure	76
5853907285	dynamic character	goes through a fundamental change	77
5853909092	static character	does not change or grow	78
5853911167	flat character	lacks complexity	79
5853912343	round character	psychologically complex, multi-dimensional	80
5853916377	hamartia	character's tragic flaw	81
5853918586	foil	minor character emphasizes the qualities of another character	82
5853920467	archetype	universal character type	83
5853922561	stereotype/stock character	actions and etc fall in with a widely held idea of what such a "type" of person is like	84
5853930663	doppelganger	ghostly double... haunts its counterpart	85
5853931994	persona	special identity that an author/poet assumes in a piece of literature	86
5853934995	speaker	the voice in a piece of literature or poem	87
5853936316	narrator	person who tells the story	88
5853937924	first person pov	main character	89
5853939284	unreliable narrator	perception, interpretation and evaluation of the matter does not coincide with the implicit opinions and view of the author	90
5853943576	limited third person pov	story is told in third person	91
5853945753	omniscient third person pov	knows everything	92
5853946942	interior monologue	speech that mirrors one's half thought, impressions, and associations that impinge upon the character's consciousness	93
5853951495	dramatic monologue	self-revealing speech from one person to a silent listener	94
5853954164	soliloquy	believing one is alone, conveys one's thoughts aloud in an extended speech	95
5853959137	chorus	individual that comments on or interprets the action of the play	96
5853963057	stream of consciousness	captures the entire range and flow of a character's mental process	97
5853968690	prose	linked fragments or sentences and paragraphs	98
5853969764	verse	poetry	99
5853969765	narrative	story line in prose or verse	100
5853971213	allegory	narrative that makes coherent sense on a literal level but also represents large ideas	101
5853975356	anthology	collection of short stories or poems	102
5853976572	bildungsroman	novel that recounts the development of an individual	103
5853980339	comedy	presents the "lighter" side of life	104
5853981757	satire	makes fun of something	105
5853982949	comedy of manners	mocks the artificial and superficial habits of high society	106
5853985892	farce	horse play, slapstick, bawdy language	107
5853988678	parody	imitation of a piece of writing	108
5853990180	dystopian novel	imperfect, oppressive world	109
5853991982	utopian novel	perfect society or world	110
5853994170	epic	long poem unified by a hero who reflects that customs	111
5854001665	epistolary novel	written in letters	112
5854002535	fable	tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson	113
5854004472	saga	narrative of the exploits of a hero told through several generations	114
5854011904	tragedy	ends in disaster	115
5854012975	existentialism	humanity's very being	116
5854014600	gothic novel	utilizes fear and terror to entertain	117
5854015982	feminist novel	raises question about gender equality and female self-actualization	118