AP Literature Vocabulary List 9 Flashcards

252528550	Plot Manipulation	A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved	0
252528551	Poeticizing	Writing that uses immoderately heightened or distended language to sway the reader's feelings	1
252528552	Point of View	The angle of vision from which a story is told	2
252528553	Omniscient point of view	The author tells the story using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do.	3
252528554	Third Person limited point of view	The author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears.	4
252528555	First-Person point of view	The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person	5
252528556	Dramatic Point of View	The author tells story using third person but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do: author does not interpret the characters' behavior or tell us private thoughts or feelings	6
252528557	Prose Meaning	Part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase	7
252528558	Prose Poem	Usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse	8
252528559	Protagonist	The central character in a story	9
252528560	Quatrain	A four line stanza	10
252528561	Realistic Drama	Drama that attempts, in content and in presentation, to preserve the illusion of actual, everyday life	11
252528562	Refrain	A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form	12
252528563	Rhetorical Pause	A natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax.	13
252528564	Rhetorical Poetry	Poetry using artificially eloquent language; that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience	14
252528565	Rhetorical Stress	In natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure	15
6157375898	Polemic	A vigorously argumentative work, setting forth its author's attitudes on a highly controversial subject, usually on religion, social issues, economics, or politics.	16
6157410667	Polysyndeton	Sentences, clauses, phrases, or a words in coordinate constructions are linked by coordinate conjunctions.	17
6157474585	Popular Culture	The phenomenon of what people really but unofficially do and say to assume and cultivate themselves; also the academic study thereof. In many respects popular culture is similar to folklore	18
6157493059	Positivism	A philosophy that denies validity to speculation or metaphysical questions, maintaining that the proper goal of knowledge is the description and not the explanation of experienced phenomena.	19
6157530668	Pragmatism	A term describing a philosophical doctrine that determines value and meaning through the test of consequences or utility.	20
6157566143	Precis	An abstract or epitome of the essential facts or statements of a work, retaining the order of the original.	21
6157591684	Primitivism	The doctrine that supposedly primitive peoples, because they had remained closer to nature and had been less subject to the influences of society, were nobler and more nearly perfect than civilized people.	22
6157627171	Provincialism	A word, phrase, manner of expression, or attitude peculiar to a special region and not commonly used outside that region; therefore, not fashionable or sophisticated.	23
6157656054	Psychoanalytical Criticism	The emphasis in literary criticism on the values of symbols and language that, often unconsciously, explain meanings or unconscious intention.	24
6157701286	Pun	A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings.	25
6157716563	Quibble	A pun or play on words, or especially a verbal device for evading the point at issue , as when debaters engage in quibbles over the interpretation of a term.	26
6157736642	Quip	A retort or sarcastic jest; hence any witty saying, especially a pun or quibble.	27
6157751973	Rationalism	This term embraces related "systems" of thought (philosophical, scientific, religious) that rest on the authority of reason rather than sense-perceptions, revelation, or traditional authority.	28
6157791931	Relativism	A belief or sentiment, opposed to absolution. It denies the existence or validity of principles and standards that are everlasting, ubiquitous and changeless.	29
6157805262	Requiem	A chant embodying a prayer for the repose of the dead.	30