AP Literature Study Guide Flashcards

5544595630	Antagonist	the "villain" of the story, opposer to the protagonist	0
5544595631	Protagonist	the "hero" of the story, usually overcomes triumph to achieve a goal	1
5544595632	Aside	a part of a drama where a character's thoughts or dialogue are heard by the audience but not by other characters	2
5544595633	Catharsis	a great releasing of emotion	3
5544595634	Dynamic character	a character in a story that changes internally	4
5544595635	Flat character	character that are constant and remain unchanged	5
5544595636	Static character	a character that has few traits and does not develop during the story	6
5544595637	Round character	a character that is multifaceted and goes through changes throughout the story	7
5544595638	Stock character	a stereotypical character occurring in many stories	8
5544595639	Climax	the height of action in a story	9
5544595640	Comedy	a genre of literature that is humorous or satirical	10
5544595641	Comic relief	a person or event that provides humor or drama to a serious literary work	11
5544595642	Conflict	a source of tension in a story	12
5544595643	Crisis	the height of the conflict	13
5544595644	Denouement	the resolution of a conflict in a story	14
5544595645	Deus ex machina	when a story ends in an unrealistic matter, as if acted on by supernatural forces	15
5544595646	Epilogue	an addition piece at the end of a work usually bringing additional closure to the reader	16
5544595648	Falling action	the events that follow the resolution of the major conflict in the work	17
5544595649	Farce	A literary genre that uses exaggeration and comedy	18
5544595650	Foil	A character that is used to accentuate the attributes of another character by being the opposite of him/her	19
5544595651	Hamartia	the error of a protagonist that brings about their personal downfall	20
5544595652	Tragic hero	a character that makes a mistake that leads to their own destruction	21
5544595653	Epic hero	the main character of an epic that is bold and courageous	22
5544595654	Hubris	extreme pride	23
5544595655	Monologue	a speech given by a character to express thoughts and emotions	24
5544595656	Prologue	the opening of story that presents the setting and characters	25
5544595657	Rising action	the events leading up to the major conflict of the story	26
5544595658	Scene	a subunit of a play	27
5544595659	Soliloquy	a speech given by a character to reveal inner emotions	28
5544595660	Tragedy	a genre of literature characterized by unlucky events	29
5544595661	Tragic flaw	the trait a character possesses that leads to their downfall	30
5544595662	Villain	a malicious person who is against the protagonist and their goals	31
5544595664	Atmosphere	the mood portrayed through diction and setting	32
5544595665	Colloquial	Informal language used in everyday speech	33
5544595666	Connotation	the implied meaning of a word	34
5544595667	Denotation	the literal definition of a word	35
5544595668	Dialect	the language a certain group of people use	36
5544595669	Dialogue	conversation between characters	37
5544595670	Diction	word choice by the author	38
5544595671	Epigram	a brief satirical statement	39
5544595672	Invective	speech that attacks another character	40
5544595673	Inversion	when the normal order of a sentence is reversed	41
5544595674	irony	a contradiction between what is used and what is meant	42
5544595675	Dramatic	irony between what the audience knows and what the characters know	43
5544595676	Verbal	a contradiction between what is said and what is meant	44
5544595677	Situational	a contradiction between what is expected and what occurs	45
5544595678	Mood	the use of certain words to evoke emotion	46
5544595679	Paradox	a statement that appears to be contradictory	47
5544595680	Parallelism	sentences similar in structure	48
5544595681	Proverb	a short story or statement used to express a truth	49
5544595682	Pun	a play on words	50
5544595683	Repetition	the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis	51
5544595684	Restatement	to state a point again in a different way	52
5544595685	rhetorical question	a question asked for emphasis that does not require an answer	53
5544595686	Sarcasm	a satirical remark	54
5544595687	Satire	humor used to express something's or someone's negative traits	55
5544595688	Slang	casual language usually known by a certain group of people	56
5544595689	Tone	the attitude of the writer	57
5544595690	Voice	the writing style of the author	58
5544595691	Anecdote	a story used to explain a point	59
5544595692	Anticlimax	a quick transition from a serious event to a trivial one	60
5544595693	Flashback	the interruption of the events of a story to refer to an earlier event	61
5544595694	Incident	the first event in a story that upsets the character's life	62
5544595695	Motivation	the reasons behind actions	63
5544595696	Narrative voice	the narrator's voice	64
5544595697	Points of view	first person, objective, omniscient, limited, third person, unlimited	65
5544595698	Stream	of-consciousness- the stream of thoughts and feelings that occurs within a character	66
5544595699	Subplot	a plot under the main plot of the story	67
5544595700	Theme	the main idea of a text	68
5544595701	Allusion	a reference to a notable event, person, place, etc.	69
5544595702	Apostrophe	when a character addresses something or someone that is not present	70
5544595703	Euphemism	a word standing in place of another more harsh	71
5544595704	Hyperbole	grand exaggeration	72
5544595705	Litotes	a negative statement confirming a positive one	73
5544595706	Metaphor	comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"	74
5544595707	Onomatopoeia	words that sound like their meaning	75
5544595708	Personification	to give an inanimate object or animal is given human qualities	76
5544595709	Simile	a comparison using "like" or "as"	77
5544595710	Symbol	when an object or actions of a character have a deeper meaning than at first glance	78
5544595711	Synecdoche	using a part to identify a whole, or vise versa	79
5544595712	Understatement	intentionally making something seem less important	80
5544595713	Allegory	a story that has two meanings	81
5544595714	Anecdote	a story used to prove a point	82
5544595715	Diary	a daily personal record of events	83
5544595716	Discourse	argumentation, description, exposition, narration	84
5544595717	essay	Types include formal, humorous, informal	85
5544595718	Fable	a fictional story where the characters are animals, plants, inanimate objects, etc, given human qualities	86
5544595719	Genre	the category of literature a work falls under	87
5544595720	Novel	a longer narrative	88
5544595721	Novella	fiction work longer than a short story but shorter than a novel	89
5544595722	Parable	a short story created to teach a lesson	90
5544595723	Prose	free flowing literature	91
5544595724	Verse	a single line of a poem	92
5544595725	Alliteration	repeated first sounds of each word	93
5544595726	Assonance	repeated vowel sounds in a series of words	94
5544595727	blank verse	unrhymed verse	95
5544595728	Cacophony	used of more than one discordant sounds in a verse	96
5544595729	Cadence	the beat of a poem	97
5544595730	Caesura	a natural pause in a line of poetry	98
5544595731	Conceit	a metaphor that is surprising and inventive	99
5544595732	Connotation	the implied meaning of a word	100
5544595733	Consonance	repeated consonant sounds	101
5544595734	controlling image	a device using repetition to emphasize the theme of a work	102
5544595735	Couplet	two rhyming lines	103
5544595736	Dirge	a mourning song	104
5544595737	Dissonance	interrupting the flow of the poetry to prove a point	105
5544595738	dramatic monologue	when a single character reveals his or her true feelings to the audience	106
5544595739	Elegy	a poem in honor of the deceased	107
5544595740	end	stopped line- the pause at the end of a unit of syntax	108
5544595741	Enjambment	continuing lines of poetry without punctuation	109
5544595742	Epic	a hero story	110
5544595743	Euphony	words that sound nice together	111
5544595744	Foot	a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	112
5544595745	free verse	lines of poetry with no rhyme or meter	113
5544595746	Iamb	unstressed stressed	114
5544595747	Image	the visual created by descriptions that appeal to the senses	115
5544595748	Imagery	using description to appeal to the senses	116
5544595749	In medias res	A narrative occurring at a crucial part of the story	117
5544595750	Lyric	a short expressive poem	118
5544595751	Measure	a short rhythmical unit	119
5544595752	Meter	number of feet in a line	120
5544595753	Octave	eight lines of iambic pentameter	121
5544595754	Ode	a short lyrical piece normally praising a person or event	122
5544595755	Pentameter	line of poetry with five beats	123
5544595756	Persona	the way a character is presented	124
5544595757	Quatrain	a verse with four lines	125
5544595758	Refrain	the end set of lines repeated throughout the poem	126
5544595759	Repetition	repeating of words or phrases	127
5544595760	Rhyme	repetition of sounds	128
5544595761	End	repetition of sounds at the ends of lines	129
5544595762	External	rhyming the last syllable of each line	130
5544595763	Feminine	a rhyme with multiple syllables where the last syllable is unstressed	131
5544595764	Internal	Rhyme inside a line of poetry	132
5544595765	Masculine	a rhyme with multiple syllables and the last is stressed	133
5544595766	Scansion	analyzing a poem's meter	134
5544595767	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet	135
5544595768	Sonnet	Fourteen 10 syllable line poetry written in iambic pentameter	136
5544595769	English	three quatrains and a rhyming couplet	137
5544595770	Italian	octave rhyming and a sestet rhyming	138
5544595771	Stanza	four or more lines with set rhythm and length	139
5544595772	Stress	emphasized syllable	140
5544595773	Trochee	stressed then unstressed	141
5544595774	Volta	a change in argument or thought	142
5544595775	Antithesis	when two opposites are put together to prove a point	143
5544595776	Balanced sentence	a sentence with two equal portions ( length, structure, meaning )	144
5544595777	Coherence	when each part of a work contributes to the overall meaning	145
5544595778	Complex sentence	one dependent and one independent clause	146
5544595779	Compound complex	at least two independent clauses joined by a conjunction or form of joining Punctuation- marks used to separate sentences or their parts	147
5544595780	Ellipsis	a form of punctuation used to take out part of a sentence or event	148
5544595781	Inverted sentence	sentence when the predicate precedes the subject	149
5544595782	Loose sentence	a main clauses followed by additional information	150
5544595783	Sign	Abbreviations, Acronyms, Trademarks, Product names, Badges, Insignias	151
5544595784	Symbol	Terms, Names, Pictures	152
5544616644	Positive Tone Words	lighthearted, confident, amused, complimentary, amiable, relaxed, soothing, jubilant, encouraging, reverent, hopeful, cheery, etc.	153
5544626875	Negative Tone Words	angry, wrathful, threatening, agitated, obnoxious, insulting, etc.	154
5544638078	Neutral Tone Words	formal, objective, questioning, learned, authoritative, etc.	155
5544645379	Beowulf	An epic poem describing a Danish hero's journey of defeating Grendel and other monsters to save his homeland.	156
5544656024	My Antonia	The story of a young immigrant girl who grew up in the American West. Its major themes include gender boundaries, society and class, the American Dream, etc.	157
5544678618	The Awakening	A novel written by Kate Chopin describing the turmoils of an unsatisfied, isolated woman pushed into the New Orleans's social elite struggling to meet others' expectations of her.	158