AP Literature Terms and Such Flashcards

6746761705	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6746761706	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6746761707	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6746761708	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6746761709	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6746761710	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6746761711	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6746761712	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6746761713	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6746761714	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6746761715	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6746761716	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6746761717	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6746761718	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6746761719	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6746761720	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6746761721	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6746761722	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6746761723	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6746761724	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6746761725	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6746761726	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6746761727	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6746761728	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6746761729	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6746761730	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6746761731	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6746761732	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6746761733	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6746761734	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6746761735	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6746761736	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6746761737	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6746761738	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6746761739	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6746761740	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6746761741	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6746761742	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6746761743	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6746761744	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6746761745	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6746761746	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6746761747	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6746761748	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6746761749	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6746761750	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6746761751	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6746761752	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6746761753	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6746761754	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6746761755	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
6746761756	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6746761757	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
6746761758	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6746761759	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6746761760	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6746761761	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6746761762	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6746761763	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6746761764	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6746761765	octave	8 line stanza	60
6746761766	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6746761767	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6746761768	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6746761769	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6746761770	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6746761771	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6746761772	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6746761773	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6746761774	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
6746761775	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6746761776	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6746761777	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6746761778	protagonist	Main character	73
6746761779	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6746761780	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6746761781	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6746761782	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6746761783	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6746761784	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6746761785	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6746761786	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6746761787	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6746761788	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6746761789	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6746761790	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6746761791	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6746761792	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6746761793	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6746761794	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6746761795	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6746761796	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6746761797	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6746761798	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6746761799	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6746761800	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6746761801	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6746761802	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6746761803	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6746761804	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6746761805	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