AP Literature Flashcards

4760264529	Participant	A dramatized character who says, "I".	0
4760264530	Observer	Standing a little to one side, watching a story unfold that mainly involves someone else.	1
4760266654	Nonparticipant	Does not appear in the story as a character.	2
4760269569	Omniscent	The narrator sees into the minds of all or some of the characters, moving from one to another.	3
4760285029	Editorial Omniscience	When the narrator intergects their opinion on the character's thoughts.	4
4760286487	Impartial Omniscience	Presents the thoughts and actions of the characters, but does not judge them or comment on them.	5
4760288331	Limited/Selective Omniscience	When a nonparticipating narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character, whether a major character or a minor one	6
4760297969	Objective Point of View	The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside.	7
4760299493	Innocent/Naive Narrator	A character who fails to understand all the implications of the story.	8
4760302415	Unreliable Narrator	The point of view is that of a person who, we perceive is deceptive, self-deceptive, deluded or deranged.	9
4760303939	Stream of Conciousness	The procession of thoughts passing through the mind.	10
4760305148	Total Omniscience	A knowledge of the minds of all the characters, has its disadvantages.	11
4767017230	Setting	Time and place of a story; locale	12
4767018500	Style	the individual traits or characteristics of a piece of writing :to a writer's particular ways of managing words that we come to recognize as habitual or customary	13
4773149552	diction	word choice	14
4773151458	minimalist	give nothing but facts drawn from ordinary life, sometimes in a picayune detail.	15
4773158910	verbal irony/sarcasm	the speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning of the words	16
4773161332	Ironic point of view	a sharp distinction between the narrator is telling us something that we are clearly expected to doubt or to interpret very differently.	17
4773219041	Cosmic irony		18
4783186853	Theme	The general idea or insight the entire story reveals.	19
4787542789	Symbol	a thing that suggests more than the literal meaning	20
4787545149	Allegory	a story in which persons places and things form a system of clearly labeled equivalents	21
4787551816	Symbolic act	a gesture with larger significance than usual	22
4793379467	Novel	a book length story in prose whose author tries to create the sense that while we read we experience actual life	23
4793380715	Epistolary Novel	contained letters by only one character often they contained letters by several of the characters in the book	24
4793384748	Romance	a genre of fiction dealing with love in an idealized way	25
4793447854	Nonfiction Novel	the author presents actual people and events in story form	26
4793448656	Historical Novel	a detailed reconstruction of life in another time perhaps in another place	27
4793451386	Apprenticeship Novel	a youth struggles toward maturity, seeking, perhaps, some inconsistent world view or philosophy of life.	28
4793452679	Picaresque Novel	a likable scoundrel wanders through adventures living by his wits duping the straight citizenry	29
4793454100	Short Novel	refers to a narrative midway in length between a short story and a novel	30
4793455380	Novelette	refers to a short novel written for a popular magazine	31
4805564305	Brusque	abrupt or offhand in speech or manner.	32
4805564345	Dispassionate	not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial.	33
4805565676	Effervescent	vivacious and enthusiastic	34
4805566589	Indefatigable	(of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly	35
4805566590	Misanthrope	a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.	36
4805568122	Morose	sullen and ill-tempered	37
4805568123	Nonchalance	(of a person or manner) feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm.	38
4805569093	Progeny	a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring.	39
4805569094	Stoic	a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.	40
4805571205	Voracious	wanting or devouring great quantities of food;	41