AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

6683730864	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6683730865	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6683730866	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6683730867	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6683730868	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6683730869	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6683730870	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6683730871	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6683730872	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6683730873	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6683730874	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6683730875	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6683730876	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6683730877	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6683730878	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6683730879	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6683730880	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6683730881	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6683730882	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6683730883	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6683730884	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6683730885	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6683730886	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6683730887	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6683730888	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6683730889	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6683730890	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6683730891	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6683730892	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6683730893	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6683730894	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6683730895	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6683730896	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6683730897	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6683730898	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6683730899	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6683730900	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6683730901	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6683730902	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6683730903	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6683730904	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6683730905	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6683730906	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6683730907	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6683730908	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6683730909	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6683730910	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6683730911	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6683730912	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6683730913	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6683730914	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
6683730915	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6683730916	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
6683730917	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6683730918	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6683730919	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6683730920	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6683730921	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6683730922	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6683730923	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6683730924	octave	8 line stanza	60
6683730925	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6683730926	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6683730927	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6683730928	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6683730929	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6683730930	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6683730931	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6683730932	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6683730933	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
6683730934	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	70
6683730935	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6683730936	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6683730937	protagonist	Main character	73
6683730938	quatrain	A four-line stanza	74
6683730939	rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	75
6683730940	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6683730941	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6683730942	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6683730943	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	79
6683730944	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6683730945	sestet	six-line stanza	81
6683730946	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6683730947	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	83
6683730948	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6683730949	sonnet	14-line poem	85
6683730950	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6683730951	stream of consciousness	a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.	87
6683730952	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6683730953	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6683730954	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6683730955	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6683730956	tercet	three-line stanza	92
6683730957	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6683730958	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	94
6683730959	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6683730960	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6683730961	truncation	the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.	97
6683730962	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6683730963	verse	A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6683730964	villanelle	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