AP Literature Terms #2 Flashcards

6730898853	allegory	story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6730898854	alliteration	closely connected words that begin with the same sound	1
6730898855	allusion	a reference to another story (literature, art, history, myth)	2
6730898856	anaphora	successive phrases or clauses that begin with the same words	3
6730898857	antagonist	the character or force that opposes the main character	4
6730898858	apostrophe	a direct address to an inanimate object or a person/character who is not present	5
6730898859	slant rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike; an imperfect rhyme	6
6730898860	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6730898861	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds within words	8
6730898862	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an rhyme scheme	9
6730898863	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6730898864	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6730898865	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6730898866	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6730898867	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6730898868	dynamic character	a character who changes throughout the story	15
6730898869	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6730898870	characterization	process of revealing a character's personality	17
6730898871	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point; the turning point in a story	18
6730898872	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny; drama that has a happy ending	19
6730898873	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6730898874	connotation	meanings and feelings associated with a word	21
6730898875	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6730898876	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6730898877	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	24
6730898878	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6730898879	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6730898880	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6730898881	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6730898882	double rhyme	a feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line	29
6730898883	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6730898884	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6730898885	end-stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6730898886	Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6730898887	epiphany	sudden realization or spiritual insight (by a character)	34
6730898888	euphony	pleasant arrangement of sounds	35
6730898889	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6730898890	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6730898891	feminine rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	38
6730898892	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6730898893	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6730898894	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables	41
6730898895	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6730898896	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6730898897	hamartia	tragic decision or flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6730898898	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6730898899	indirect characterization	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6730898900	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6730898901	irony	In general, a contrast between expectation and reality	48
6730898902	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6730898903	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience/reader but not by the characters in the play/story.	50
6730898904	situational irony	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6730898905	Italian or Petrarchan sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	52
6730898906	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6730898907	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6730898908	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6730898909	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6730898910	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6730898911	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6730898912	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6730898913	octave	segment of poetry eight lines long	60
6730898914	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6730898915	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6730898916	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6730898917	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6730898918	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6730898919	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6730898920	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6730898921	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6730898922	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
6730898923	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6730898924	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6730898925	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6730898926	protagonist	Main character	73
6730898927	quatrain	segment of poetry four lines long	74
6730898928	rhythm	The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in writing	75
6730898929	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6730898930	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6730898931	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6730898932	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6730898933	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6730898934	sestet	segment of poetry six lines long	81
6730898935	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6730898936	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6730898937	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6730898938	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6730898939	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6730898940	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6730898941	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6730898942	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6730898943	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6730898944	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6730898945	tercet	segment of poetry three lines long	92
6730898946	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6730898947	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6730898948	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6730898949	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6730898950	truncation	A line of poetry that has been shortened	97
6730898951	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6730898952	verse	writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6730898953	villanelle	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
6730898954	polysyndenton	the use of more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary	101
6730898955	asyndeton	the elimination of conjunctions	102
6730898956	epistrophe	the repetition of words at the ENDS of successive phrases or clauses	103
6730898957	antimetabole (also called chiasmus)	rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order	104
6730898958	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next	105
6730898959	conceit	an extended metaphor; an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things	106
6730898960	epic simile or Homeric simile	an extended simile; often used in epic poetry	107
6730898961	parallelism	successive lines of writing that follow the same grammatical structure	108