AP LITERATURE - Terms Flashcards

2887528426	allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	0
2887529812	allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art	1
2887529813	antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	2
2887530924	archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	3
2887530925	climax	Most exciting moment of the story; turning point	4
2887530926	comedy	A literary work which ends happily because the hero or heroine is able to overcome obstacles and get what he or she wants.	5
2887530946	confidant	a person entrusted with secrets	6
2887531922	conflict	A struggle between opposing forces	7
2887531923	cosmic irony	Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed.	8
2887531924	crisis	A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event requiring the president to play the role of crisis manager.	9
2887533303	denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	10
2887533304	dialogue	Conversation between characters	11
2887533305	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	12
2887534452	direct characterization	Author directly describes character	13
2887534453	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	14
2887535713	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	15
2887535714	epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	16
2887535715	exposition	A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.	17
2887536776	fiction	A story that is not true or is made up	18
2887536777	first person	"I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective.	19
2887536778	flashback	A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events	20
2887536779	flat character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	21
2887537989	foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.	22
2887537990	genre	A category or type of literature (or of art, music, etc.) characterized by a particular form, style, or content.	23
2887537991	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	24
2887539249	indirect characterization	Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions.	25
2887539250	in medias res	A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point.	26
2887539251	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	27
2887540539	horation	Satire is characterized by a cheerful, urbane, "tongue-in-cheek" tone.	28
2887540540	juvenilian	formal satire in which the speaker abrasively attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation with the goal of provoking change because the opponent is seen as evil or harmful	29
2887542848	limited omniscient 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.	30
2887542849	minimalist	An attitude of only doing the least that is required by law in our moral life	31
2887542850	motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	32
2887542851	motivation	A character's incentive or reason for behaving in a certain manner; that which impels a character to act	33
2887544285	narrator	Person telling the story	34
2887544286	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	35
2887545737	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	36
2887545738	plot	Sequence of events in a story	37
2887545739	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	38
2887547086	protagonist	Main character	39
2887547087	round character	A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work	40
2887547088	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	41
2887547089	short story	A brief work of fiction	42
2887548444	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	43
2887549771	static character	A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end	44
2887549772	stock character	a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality manner of speech and other characteristics	45
2887549773	stream of conciousness	a style of writing in which the thoughts and feelings of the writer are recorded as they occur	46
2887552852	story of initiation	a short story depicting a decisive incident that sends a character into a higher state of awareness, whether for better or for worse.	47
2887552853	style	A basic and distinctive mode of expression.	48
2887552854	symbol / symbolism	something that stands for something else	49
2887556144	syntax	Sentence structure	50
2887556145	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	51
2887556146	third person	Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	52
2887556147	tragedy	A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow	53
2887556148	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	54
2887557750	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	55
2887557751	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	56
3556645358	alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	57
3556649575	antithesis	(n.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	58
3556650586	apostrophe	address to something not human or someone not there	59
3556651329	assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	60
3556652042	consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	61
3556654492	deus ex machine	cheap ending, conclusion from nowhere	62
3556656463	epistle	a letter or literary composition in letter form	63
3556656464	foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	64
3556657182	hubris	Excessive pride or self-confidence	65
3556660232	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	66
3556660233	metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	67
3556660777	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	68
3556661492	montage	A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea.	69
3556662197	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	70
3556662198	parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	71
3556662687	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	72
3556663247	pathos	Appeal to emotion	73
3556663248	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	74
3556664450	similie	A comparison using like or as	75
3556664997	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	76
3556664998	understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	77