AP English Literature Reading Interpretation Techniques Flashcards

4788645131	foreshadowing	An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story	0
4788645482	manipulation of time	When a novelist changes the pattern of sun up to sun down for an artistic reason or for the plot. They can create flashbacks or flash forwards by doing this	1
4788645895	stream of consciousness	a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	2
4788646420	flashback	A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time	3
4788647200	frame story	A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story	4
4788647666	flash forward	A scene that takes the narrator forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, or T.V.	5
4788648142	narrative pace	Speed at which a story moves along; should reflect the content	6
4788648368	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	7
4788648593	speaker	A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing	8
4788648789	narrator	The person telling the story	9
4788649214	persona	An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.	10
4788649648	dialogue	Conversation between two or more characters	11
4788649946	interior monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head	12
4788650499	parallel scenes	scenes in a work of literature that mirror or contrast each other.	13
4788651828	denouement	conclusion; resolution; the falling action of a story after its climax	14
4788652157	rhetorical questions	A question that does not require an answer	15
4788653145	gaps	lull	16
4788658721	subplots	events or actions of secondary interest are developed often providing contrast to or commentary on the main plot	17
4788659803	contrast	Give an account of the differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout.	18
4788660057	repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	19
4788660254	paradox	A figure of speech or statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth	20
4788661025	understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	21
4788661324	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	22
4788661817	irony	Contrast between appearance and reality	23
4788662844	symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	24
4788663842	didactic attitude/language	persuades reader that some doctrine is true; instructs or provides for a particular purpose, often to teach a lesson. (a book of manners, guide to life). Can be an insult to literature.	25
4788668044	creation of empathy	involuntary projection of ourselves into story. We feel what the character feels. Stronger than sympathy (you cry vs. you feel sorry for someone)	26
4788670445	allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.	27
4788671493	tragic hero	A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise	28
4788672369	caricature	(n.) a respresentation (especially a drawing) in which the subject's features are deliberately exaggerated; (v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way	29
4788672656	epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	30
4788673122	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	31
4788673867	connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	32
4788674544	syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	33
4788675030	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	34
4788675436	metaphor	A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.	35
4788675799	simile	A comparison of two unlike things using like or as	36
4788676413	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	37
4788676902	apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	38
4788677807	antithesis	(n.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	39
4788678196	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	40
4788678869	oxymoron	A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms	41
4788679139	chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	42
4788679487	cliche	A worn-out idea or overused expression	43
4788679968	parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	44
4788680392	romance	in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful.	45
4788682067	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	46
4788683211	pathos	Appeal to emotion	47
4788684082	malapropism	humorous misuse of a word	48
4788685362	realism	A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be	49
4788687165	pastoral	relating to rural life and the countryside, simple and peaceful; relating to shepherds; relating to pastors, the clergy. Category: people/places. adjective	50
4788687618	allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	51
4788688800	genre	A type or category of literature	52
4788689147	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	53
4788689678	selection/omission of detail	Facts, circumstances, characteristics, techniques, etc., used/or not used by the writer to convey tone, purpose or effect	54
4788690388	sound effects	Sounds introduced to create mood or to indicate the presence of something	55
4788691264	rhythm	A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.	56
4788691619	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	57
4788692108	rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	58