AP Literature Flashcards

6527158805	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6527158806	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6527158807	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6527158808	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6527158809	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6527158810	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6527158811	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6527158812	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6527158813	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6527158814	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6527158815	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6527158816	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6527158817	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6527158818	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6527158819	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6527158820	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6527158821	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6527158822	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6527158823	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6527158824	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6527158825	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6527158826	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6527158827	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6527158828	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6527158829	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6527158830	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6527158831	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6527158832	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6527158833	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6527158834	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6527158835	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6527158836	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6527158837	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6527158838	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6527158839	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6527158840	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6527158841	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6527158842	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6527158843	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6527158844	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6527158845	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6527158846	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6527158847	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6527158848	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6527158849	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6527158850	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6527158851	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6527158852	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6527158853	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6527158854	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6527158855	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
6527158856	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6527158857	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
6527158858	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6527158859	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6527158860	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6527158861	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6527158862	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6527158863	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6527158864	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6527158865	octave	8 line stanza	60
6527158866	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6527158867	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6527158868	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6527158869	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6527158870	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6527158871	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6527158872	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6527158873	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6527158874	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
6527158875	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6527158876	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6527158877	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6527158878	protagonist	Main character	73
6527158879	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6527158880	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6527158881	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6527158882	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6527158883	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6527158884	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6527158885	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6527158886	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6527158887	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6527158888	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6527158889	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6527158890	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6527158891	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6527158892	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6527158893	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6527158894	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6527158895	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6527158896	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6527158897	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6527158898	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6527158899	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6527158900	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6527158901	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6527158902	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6527158903	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6527158904	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6527158905	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