AP Literature Terms and Such Flashcards

6486903172	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6486903173	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6486903174	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6486903175	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6486903176	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6486903177	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6486903178	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6486903179	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6486903180	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6486903181	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6486903182	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6486903183	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6486903184	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6486903185	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6486903186	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6486903187	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6486903188	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6486903189	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6486903190	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6486903191	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6486903192	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6486903193	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6486903194	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6486903195	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6486903196	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6486903197	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6486903198	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6486903199	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6486903200	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6486903201	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6486903202	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6486903203	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6486903204	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6486903205	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6486903206	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6486903207	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6486903208	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6486903209	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6486903210	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6486903211	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6486903212	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6486903213	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6486903214	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6486903215	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6486903216	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6486903217	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6486903218	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6486903219	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6486903220	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6486903221	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6486903222	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
6486903223	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6486903224	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
6486903225	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6486903226	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6486903227	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6486903228	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6486903229	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6486903230	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6486903231	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6486903232	octave	8 line stanza	60
6486903233	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6486903234	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6486903235	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6486903236	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6486903237	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6486903238	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6486903239	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6486903240	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6486903241	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
6486903242	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6486903243	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6486903244	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6486903245	protagonist	Main character	73
6486903246	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6486903247	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6486903248	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6486903249	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6486903250	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6486903251	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6486903252	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6486903253	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6486903254	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6486903255	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6486903256	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6486903257	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6486903258	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6486903259	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6486903260	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6486903261	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6486903262	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6486903263	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6486903264	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6486903265	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6486903266	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6486903267	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6486903268	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6486903269	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6486903270	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6486903271	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6486903272	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