AP Literature Exam Flashcards

5622444283	allusion	reference to person, place, thing, or another work	0
5622444284	antihero	ordinary inglorious person	1
5622444285	climax	greatest moment of tension	2
5622444286	complication	new conflict	3
5622444287	cosmic irony	fate frustrates human efforts	4
5622444288	crisis	moment of high tension	5
5622444289	denouement	final resolution...	6
5622444290	diction	word choice	7
5622444291	dramatic situation	person involved in conflict	8
5622444292	epiphany	moment of discovery...character greatly altered	9
5622444293	exposition	opening introductory portion of story	10
5622444294	fable	brief story that sets forth truth	11
5622444295	fairy tale	story in magic/enchanted world	12
5622444296	fiction	partly imagined story	13
5622444297	flashback	retrospect	14
5622444298	hero	brave central character	15
5622444299	in medias res	in the midst of things	16
5622444300	interior monologue	thoughts arranged as if they were speech	17
5622444301	ironic point of view	distinction between narrator and author	18
5622444302	moral	message or lesson	19
5622451820	motivation	sufficient reason for characters' behavior	20
5622454016	naïve narrator	character who fails to understand implications	21
5622456978	narrator	speaker	22
5622459374	nonliterary fiction	fiction as a commercial product formula	23
5622471897	omniscient narrator	one who sees into the minds of characters	24
5622475594	plot	events in story	25
5622475718	point of view	identification of, part played, and limits of the narrator	26
5622482203	sarcasm	irony tinged with mockery	27
5622483949	scene	vivid or dramatic moment	28
5622486791	science fiction	scientific, realistic fantasy	29
5622488613	short story	modern, relatively realistic tale	30
5622492365	stream of consciousness	selective omniscience	31
5622494975	style	characteristics of a piece of writing	32
5622499345	suspense	pleasurable anxiety	33
5622501430	tale	short story setting forth strange and wonderful events	34
5622505430	tall tale	folk story; superhero story	35
5622508412	theme	general idea	36
5622514267	tone	reveals author's attitude	37
5622517496	unreliable narrator	point of view of a character is deceptive	38
5622528939	verbal irony	speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning	39
5622535468	antithesis	words/phrases/clauses/sentences placed side by side in contrast	40
5622543333	ballad	narrative song/poem, quatrains with scheme abcd	41
5622548298	cacophony	harsh, discordant sound or effect	42
5622555872	closed form	form involving a pattern and lines that are regular and symmetrical	43
5622559796	couplet	stanza, usually rhymed, of two lines of equal length	44
5622566472	didactic poem	poem written to teach or state a message	45
5622575084	dramatic monologue	poem written as a speech at a revealing moment	46
5622592852	end rhyme	rhyme at ends of phrases	47
5622595019	epic poem	long narrative tracing adventured of hero	48
5622598009	epigram	short sententious statement	49
5622600896	euphony	pleasing sound of words working together with meaning	50
5622605062	free verse	poetry in open form	51
5622609281	myths	traditional stories of immortal beings	52
5622613239	open form	pattern-less form with long and short lines and white space in which the poet seeks to discover a fresh and individual arrangement for words	53
5622678365	parallel	pair of words/phrases/clauses/sentences placed side by side in agreement	54
5622687188	persona	fictitious character created by the poet	55
5622690211	poetic foot	basic structure of poetic meter, usually 1 stressed and 1 or 2 unstressed syllables	56
5622701717	prosody	study of metrical structures in poetry	57
5622705646	quatrain	four-line stanza, often with lines of varying length	58
5622708416	scansion	art of indicating stresses and poetic feet in a poem	59
5622711898	tercet	three-line stanza that, if rhymed, keeps to one rhyme sound	60
5625797421	zeugma	one word used to modify two ("food for thought and also for vultures")	61
5625804064	asyndeton	omission or absence of conjunction	62
5625810243	alliteration	occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words	63
5625814351	synecdoche	part is made to represent the whole	64
5625817363	metonymy	attribute is made to represent the object ("suit" for "businessman")	65
5625824926	litotes	use of double negatives to convey positive	66
5636368358	Araby	story from first-person POV; themes include alienation, loneliness, and maturity	67
5636372888	Story of an Hour	story about Louise Mallard and her husband "in the train wreck"; symbol of spring; theme is things aren't always what they seem	68
5636379327	Guests of a Nation	Irish war story; structure effective because it deceived reader, as at first you thought the relationship was a friendship, then led to challenging decision; theme duty>friendship	69
5640121938	Shiloh	story about Leroy and Norma Jean; setting of war ground ironic; third person point-of-view; theme inability to cope, inability to be satisfied, reversal of gender roles	70
5640146054	A Rose for Emily	first person plural; theme disappearance of 'old south,' industrial progress; house symbol for isolation	71
5640160922	Astronomer's Wife	main characters: plumber, wife, astronomer; themes of contrast (up/down, dreamer/realist, asleep/awake)	72
5734740223	A&P	Story of Sammy, who works in grocery store, and girls in bathing suits; themes include desire, appearances, principles(standing out), and mystery of others minds	73
5745801497	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	74
5745801498	Apostrophe	Speaker breaks off and addresses third party	75
5745801499	Image	Appeals to senses	76
5745801500	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	77
5745801501	Blank verse	Verse without rhyme	78
5745801502	Enjambment	Continuation of sentence without pause	79
5745801503	Paradox	Self-contradictory	80
5745801504	Parody	Humorous imitation	81
5745801505	Slant rhyme	Imperfect rhyme	82
5745801506	Soliloquy	Monologue where speaker speaks their mind	83
5745801507	Connotation	Feeling word invokes, and literal meaning	84
5745801508	Denotation	Literal meaning	85