AP Spanish Literature Prep Flashcards

6715175940	ambiente	The emotional condition created by a work. Environment	0
6715175941	drama	General intermediate stage between comedy and tragedy. Drama	1
6715175942	figura retórica	Word or phrase that creates different images based in meaning, diction or ideas that convey the words. Figure of speech	2
6715175943	género	Term used to distinguish different forms of literary works (genre)	3
6715175944	héroe	The person or character who performs the heroic action (not always protagonist or main character). Hero	4
6715175945	imagen	Literal or mental representation of something imagined or real, so the reader can picture it. Image	5
6715175947	narrativa	Literary Genre formed by the story. Narrative	6
6715175948	personaje	A human real, fictional or imagined in the literary work. Character	7
6715175949	poesía	Literary genre as embodied in a poem and is subject to measurement or cadence. Poem	8
6715175950	protagonista	Main Character of the action in a literary work. Protagonist	9
6715175951	público	Individual or group of individuals receiving a message through a literary work. Audience	10
6715175952	suspenso	The eagerness to develop an action or event Expectation in a literary work in which the outcome is delayed. Suspense	11
6715175953	el tema	The argument central idea of a work or a part of a literary work. Theme	12
6715175954	autor	The person who writes a literary work. Author	13
6715175955	el cuento	Literary work that chronicles both extensive fiction and fictional events as real. Story	14
6715175956	narrador	The voice that narrates the action. Narrator	15
6715175957	novela	Narrative fiction of variable length written in prose. Novel	16
6715175958	prosa	Natural language expression. Prose	17
6715175959	estrofa	The set of verses that are grouped in a certain order and forming the structure of a poetic work. Stanza	18
6715175960	métrica	The way to build the verses according to the units metrics are: number of metric syllables, verse, stanza and poem. Metrics	19
6715175961	el poema	Literary composition written in verse belonging to the genre of poetry. Poem	20
6715175962	el/la poeta	Person who writes poems. Poet	21
6715175963	rima	Acoustic partial or full concurrence of vowels and consonants located from the last stressed vowel between two or more lines. Rhyme	22
6715175964	rima asonante	Imperfect rhyme, repeating only vowels from the stressed vowel. Assonance	23
6715175965	rima consonante	Perfect rhyme, Consonant rhyme	24
6715175966	verso	Word or set of words subject to size and pace, or just as in collective sense, is opposed to prose. Verse	25
6715175967	la voz poética	Literary work where the storyteller or poet, not necessarily the author. Poetic Voice	26
6715175968	el ritmo	The accompanied order in the succession of words of a work. Rhythm	27
6715175969	acto	Each of the parts that a play is divided. Act	28
6715175970	comedia	Generally refers to a play, and more specifically a drama with a happy ending. Comedy	29
6715175971	diálogo	A conversation between two or more characters in a entire work or part of one. Dialouge	30
6715175972	escena	A part in which the act is divided and in which the same characters are present. Scene	31
6715175973	escenario	Space where a play is shown. It may be natural or built and can add to the ambiance of the work. Stage	32
6715175974	monólogo	A work, or any part of one, in which the character speaks aloud appearing alone on stage expressing their thoughts. Monologue	33
6715175975	teatro	Place where a play before spectators or participants is performed, also the drama of a culture, people, or author. Theater	34
6715175976	tragedia	Play characterized by characters governed by the passions, and whose actions lead to a catastrophic end. Tradegy	35
6715175977	aliteración	Repetition of sounds within words or in next to produce an aural effect words. Alliteration	36
6715175978	hipérbole	Wild exaggeration of facts, situations, characteristics, attitudes, etc., to emphasize or ridicule. Hyperbole	37
6715175979	metáfora	Comparison between two essentially distinct things that may have something in common. Metaphor	38
6715175980	onomatopeya	Word that imitates or suggests the sound of what the author describes. Onomatopoeia	39
6715175981	personificación	Attribution of human qualities to beings inanimate or irrational. Personification	40
6715175982	símil	Comparison between two things or ideas using like or as. Simile	41
6715175983	ambigüedad	A statement containing more than one meaning, and that can be interpreted in different ways. Ambiguity	42
6715175984	analogía	Comparison between two or more similar objects which suggests that if they are similar in certain respects, they are in another. Analogy	43
6715175985	antagonista	Character or force in a work that deceives, frustrates or acts against the protagonist. Antagonist	44
6715175986	antihéroe	Person who performs the functions of traditional hero but differs in appearance and values. Its characteristics are contrary to those of a hero. Antihero	45
6715175987	arquetipo	symbol or universal model that exemplifies its category. Archetype	46
6715175988	atmósfera	The emotional condition created by a work; refers to the general feeling that the reader must perceive from the text. Atmosphere	47
6715175989	carpe diem	Latin for seize the day. Carpe diem	48
6715175990	desenlace	Appears in the plot, after climax; is where you meet the conflicts and the loose ends and part of the plot are attached. Resolution	49
6715175991	fábula	A short, fictional Story, in prose or verse, with didactic intention in which may involve animal characters, and people. Fable	50
6715175992	In medias res	literary Technique in which the narrative starts in the middle of the action. (Ay de mi Alhama)	51
6715175993	ironía	An unexpected event that is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. Irony	52
6715175994	memento mori	Generally an artistic or literary theme whose purpose is to remind people of their mortality. Recuerda que eres mortal	53
6715175995	símbolo	Person, place, object or action that represents something tangible, abstract, or universal. Symbol	54
6715175996	el tono	Apparent attitude or emotional state of the narrative voice of the work. Tone	55
6715175997	la trama	Sequence of events in a story that forms the structure of the conflict. Plot	56
6715175998	crónica	Historical prose that is studied as a narrative genre. It consists of a historical narrative in which the chronological order is observed from different periods. Chronicle	57
6715175999	flashback	Narrative technique that allows the writer to make a retrospect or temporary jump back to past events in order to provide a background. Flashback	58
6715176000	fluir de conciencia	Narration that seeks to capture the continuous course of the thought process of a character; also known as interior monologue. Flow awareness	59
6715176001	narrador omnisciente	Narrator knows everything that happens and is narrated in the third person narrative. Omniscient narrator	60
6715176002	narrador limitado o narrativa en primera persona	The narrator can participate as a character witness or observe the action and is in first person. First person narrative	61
6715176003	prefiguración	The suggestion or indication of future events or even the resolution in a story. Prefiguration	62
6715176004	punto de vista o perspectiva	Angle from which the narrator tells a story; serves to transmit the events of a story and, occasionally, feelings and motives of characters. Point of view	63
6715176005	heptasílabo	Verse seven metric syllables. Not a very common verse of poetry in Castilian.	64
6715176006	octosílabo	Verse of eight metric syllables; frequent verse in romance and learned poetry in Hispanic literature.	65
6715176007	endecasílabo	Metric verse of eleven syllables; frequent verse especially in learned poetry, as in the sonnet of Renaissance and Baroque poets.	66
6715176008	alejandrino	Verse of French origin; metric verse of fourteen syllables divided into two hemistiches of seven syllables. It also appears in modern poetry.	67
6715176009	arte menor	Verses of eight metric syllables or less.	68
6715176010	arte mayor	Verses of more than eight metric syllables.	69
6715176011	encabalgamiento	Continuation of an idea or phrase in the following verse to complete the meaning; this accelerates the pace of the verses.	70
6715176012	estribillo	Verse or verses that are repeated at intervals in a poem, often at the end of each stanza, which usually comprise the idea principal. Create a rhythmic and emphatic effect. Chorus	71
6715176013	lírica	Genre to which the works, usually in verse, express feelings of the author and intend to produce similar sentiments in the reader. Lyric poem	72
6715176014	poema épico	Poem that tells the exploits of historical or legendary heroes. Epic poem	73
6715176015	redondilla	Quatrain of minor art, generally octosyllabic, which is abba rhyme. Used in golden age and today.	74
6715176016	romance	Narrative or non-narrative lyrics of strophic verse, octosyllabic in any number, with verses that rhyme in pairs.	75
6715176017	sinalefa	Metric element when the final vowel of a word meets the initial vowel of the following and is counted as one syllable.	76
6715176018	soneto	Poem of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines of eleven syllables divided into two quartets and two triplets; Scheme more common is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD. Sonnet	77
6715176019	verso agudo	Verse with the final word accented on the last syllable; (adds a syllable to the verse when counting)	78
6715176020	verso esdrújulo	Verse where the final word has an emphasis on the third to last vowel (subtracts one syllable from the verse when counting)	79
6715176021	verso llano	Verse with final word accented on the second to last syllable; the syllabic count is unchanged. It is the most common verse in the Castilian metric	80
6715176022	acción dramática	Expression of movements occurring in the internal and external levels of the characters . Dramatic action	81
6715176023	exposición	Part of the plot which informs about the characters, antecedents or causes of action.	82
6715176024	nudo o clímax	Highlight in a work, usually the time of more excitement or tension that complicates the plot. Climax	83
6715176025	acotaciones	Notes included in the play at the beginning of the work or brackets along it, to advise and explain everything about the action: gestures, movements of the characters, voice modulation, decorations, sound effects, etc. Dimensions	84
6715176026	aparte	Theater technique in which a character makes a comment heard by the audience, not by the other characters, used to communicate or reveal their ideas and inner thoughts. Aside	85
6715176028	dramaturgo	Author of dramatic plays. In the Golden Age they were called "ingenio" or "poeta".	86
6715176029	teatro del absurdo	Drama based on a senseless situation, in which the characters face situations that show the folly of life in a dehumanized world.	87
6715176030	anáfora	Repeating words in a succession of verses or sentences me quieres blanca me quieres pura me quieres casta	88
6715176031	antítesis	Juxtaposition of a word, phrase or idea to another significance contrary.	89
6715176032	apóstrofe	Appeal in which the speaker addresses bystanders or absent, animate beings or inanimate objects O,.... Dios,...	90
6715176033	circunlocución o perífrasis	Indirectly alluding to something without saying precisely.	91
6715176034	elipsis	Leaving out the elements of a phrase or idea, which forces the reader to infer. Ellipsis (...)	92
6715176035	enumeración	Figure naming different parts of a concept or general thought.	93
6715176036	eufemismo	Word or phrase used in place of another because the first is distasteful, offensive or bad sounding. Euphemism	94
6715176037	gradación	Series of words or concepts in ascending scale or descending; also known for climax.	95
6715176038	hipérbaton	Alteration of the syntactic normal order of words.	96
6715176039	Barroco	Spanish cultural movement (1580-1700) characterized by its complexity and extravagant ornamentation, whose purpose was to astonish and encourage introspection. Pessimistic.	97
6715176040	Boom	In Spanish-American literature, a time of great boom: a creation of narrative works that began in 1940. Production is varied and many of its authors created international best sellers and translated into multiple languages	98
6715176041	Colonial	It refers to literature produced during the time of Spanish colonization on American soil.	99
6715176042	Edad Media (medioevo)	Period between the 5th and 15th centuries. In Spain it is considered that the Middle Ages closes with the arrival of Columbus to America (1492: la reconquista)	100
6715176043	Generación del 98	Group of Spanish novelists, poets, essayists and philosophers, active during and after the War of Cuba (1898), which was restored to Spain to an intellectual and literary prominence. This was of great importance in defining Spain as a cultural and historic entity. Unamuno, crisis, enigma de la vida	101
6715176044	libro de caballerías	Very popular genre in prose in Spain mid-sixteenth century, celebrating the exploits of the knights in which they fiercely oppose masochism inspired by courteous love.	102
6715176045	modernismo	Hispanic literary movement whose major exponent is Ruben Dario and melts three French movements: parnasianismo (French poetic movement of the late nineteenth century characterized by its inclination towards a more serene poetry), symbolism and romance. It employs a rich verbal musicality to express passions, visions, inner rhythms and harmonies.	103
6715176046	naturalismo	Literary movement of the mid-nineteenth century that portrays humans and their circumstances with scientific objectivity.- includes "determinismo"	104
6715176047	novela picaresca	Narrative prose or genre of pseudo-autobiography character; very characteristic of Spanish literature. The protagonist, a rogue of low social rank or a descendant of marginalized parents or criminals, aims to improve their lot by using their cunning or cheating.	105
6715176048	pícaro	Character of low condition, sly, witty and unsavory that stars in a picaresque novel "novela picaresca". Usually an orphan.	106
6715176049	realismo	Objective way of presenting things without minimization or exaggeration.	107
6715176050	realismo mágico	Hispanic literary movement that emerged mid-twentieth century, characterized by the introduction of these elements: fantastic-dreams, superstition, myths, and magic-immersed in a realistic narrative.	108
6715176051	Renacimiento	Era that began in the mid-fifteenth century and in which awakens in the West a strong enthusiasm for the Greek and Latin classical antiquity and the power of human creation/ intelligence. Renaissance	109
6715176052	romanticismo	Literary school of the first half of the nineteenth century; overly individualistic, ignores the rules or precepts held for the classics.	110
6715176053	Siglo de Oro	Time when literature, arts and culture reach their peak. Golden Age (Renacimiento + Barroco)	111
6715176054	alegoría	Story that illustrates a moral idea or whose objects have symbolic meanings.	112
6715176055	apología	Speech in defense or praise of a person or an ideology.	113
6715176057	cromatismo o simbolismo cromático	Using a set or range of colors to represent ideas and feelings.	114
6715176058	desdoblamiento	Formation of two or more things for separation of components that are usually together; in a character, expression of two or more personalities. (Borges y yo)	115
6715176059	leitmotiv	Repeating a word, phrase, situation or notion. Recurring motif in a play.	116
6715176060	meta- (e.g. metaficción, metateatro,metacrítica)	Meta-fiction in a fictional account, is that the theme of the story is the art of storytelling, particularly when the content breaks the illusion of reality in a play.	117
6715176061	parodia	Imitation of a work in ridicule.	118
6715176062	sátira	Literary work whose purpose is to ridicule the subject; although it may be funny, its primary purpose is to provoke rejection.	119
6715176063	narrativa epistolar	Narrative in the form of letters written by one or several characters; allows to present multiple viewpoints and dispense omniscient narration.	120
6715176064	narrador fidedigno	Narrator worthy of trust, whose understanding of characters or actions of narrative accredits to tell the facts. are conforms to the standards established by the implied author.	121
6715176065	narrador no fidedigno	Narrator who misunderstands motives or actions of characters or does not perceive the connection between the facts the story, creating a discrepancy between the implied author and the narrator reliable because it provides inconsistent information.	122
6715176066	narrador testigo	Narrator does not participate in the action but relates the events firsthand and comments.	123
6715176068	parábola	Teaching short story whose actions cover or apply to another situation. Parable	124
6715176069	cesura	Pausing in a verse that may affect the syllable count. Caesura	125
6715176070	diéresis	Pronunciation in two different vowel syllables normally form diphthong. vïola ( vi / o / la)	126
6715176071	hemistiquio	Each of the separate parts of a verse, determined a break. Hemistich	127
6715176072	hiato	Separation or elision. Separation of a "sinalefa"	128
6715176073	sinéresis	Union of two adjacent vowels within a word formed a hiatus. Reduce the metric syllable count. ex: caos	129
6715176074	verso blanco o suelto	Verse has no rhyme or assonance with another verse. Appears in poems with a regular rhyme scheme.	130
6715176075	verso libre	Verse does not rhyme with another verse or have metrical pattern.	131
6715176076	polifonía	Plurality or set of voices that creates a literary text and corresponds to multiple independent and distinct consciousnesses (dialogue within a poem, for example)	132
6715176077	polimetría	Using different metrical forms in one poem. Refers to the use of various stanzas in a unitary text.	133
6715176078	silva	Non-strophic verse poem that combines seven and eleven syllables, linked by rhyme and free verse.	134
6715176079	anagnórisis	Time the character discovers a material fact or understand something of himself, human nature or status.	135
6715176080	catarsis	Feeling purification or release elicited by some works or experiences.	136
6715176081	falla trágica	Fatal error protagonist of a work from which derives a irreparable damage. Tragic flaw	137
6715176082	ironía dramática	Circumstance in which the reader or viewer knows something unknown to a character and know or suspect what will happen before the character knows. Dramatic irony	138
6715176083	pathos	In Greek tragedy and in others it is affection tipping the viewer into the tragic figure; leads to catharsis, through which the viewer identifies with the character.	139
6715176084	tres unidades	Theatrical rule: the work only has a main action (unity of action) that this action does not last more than a day (unit time) and all the action takes place in one place (unity of place).	140
6715176085	asíndeton	Omission of conjunctions or words to evoke vividness or energy.	141
6715176086	cacofonía	Using words that combine unpleasant, harsh sounds	142
6715176087	epíteto	Word or phrase before or after the name, is used to characterize the character.	143
6715176088	metonimia	One type of metaphor in which the image is associated with the represented, but not part of it; metonimia makes the recipient message make the association.	144
6715176089	paradoja	Juxtaposition of two contradictory concepts that express a truth.	145
6715176090	polisíndeton	Repetition of conjunctions to lengthen the sentence or make a solemn expression.	146
6715176091	sinécdoque	Type metaphor that uses a portion or quality of an physical object to represent the entire object.	147
6715176092	sinestesia	Description of a feeling or image by means of sensations, perceived by different sensory organs, for example, sight and smell.	148
6715176093	retruécano	play on words; inversion of the terms of a term or proposition in another subsequent to the latter with the above shock. ex: El momento es eterno. La eternidad momentánea.	149
6715176094	conceptismo	Literary movement linked to the Spanish Baroque is characterized by the use of gimmicky associations, puns, paradoxes, acuity of thought and concise expression.	150
6715176095	culteranismo	Spanish literary style of the late sixteenth century and during the seventeenth century, characterized by the excessive wealth of striking metaphors, overuse of cultism and syntactic complexity.	151
6715176096	costumbrismo	Custom-based portrait of typical regional or national customs or in literary and artistic works.	152
6715176097	existencialismo	Philosophical movement that founded the knowledge of all reality on the experience of existence. Some subjects are so absurd, freedom from the need to choose, anguish and death, or nothing.	153
6715176098	neoclasicismo	Eighteenth-century literary movement that rejects the Baroque and proposes a return to classical and universal, simple tasteful art and teaching.	154
6715176099	postmodernismo	Twentieth century cultural movement that opposes the functionalism and modern rationalism.	155
6715176100	surrealismo	Literary and artistic movement that tried to overcome impulse with psychic automatism imaginary and irrationality: dreams and hallucinations.	156
6715176101	vanguardia	Artistic movement that emerged around the First War World and advocated experimentation with new literary techniques. Among its manifestations are surrealism and negritude.	157
6715182166	dirigir (a)	directed towards	158
6715183726	resaltar	emphasize	159
6715184847	alcanzar	reach/ achieve/ be enough	160
6715186367	destacar	stress/ emphasize	161
6715187391	rumbo	direction	162
6715189577	insondable	unfathomable	163
6715189578	verosímil	truthful/ accurate	164
6715192109	lograr	achieve	165
6715192110	gozar	enjoy	166
6715193614	aprovechar	take advantage of	167
6715194596	acontecimientos	events	168
6715195956	cotidiano	daily/ habitual	169
6715195957	caduco	old-fashioned	170
6715197488	detalles	details	171
6715198647	hallar	discover / find	172
6715201704	polémico	controversial	173
6715202769	fantasmagórico	phantasmagorical	174
6715204047	promulgar	publish	175
6715205959	muchedumbre	crowds/ masses	176
6715207912	el entorno	the surroundings	177
6715210820	ocultar	hide	178
6715211969	añorar	yearn for	179
6715221883	quejarse	to complain	180
6715221884	castigar	to punish	181
6715221886	sangre	blood	182
6715226336	hazañas	heroic actions	183
6715232334	sabiduría	knowledge/ wisdom	184
6715239667	tener lugar	takes place	185
6715239668	trata de	talks about	186
6715241476	según	according to	187
6715241477	el lector	the reader	188
6715248189	padecer	to suffer	189
6715375731	abarcar	to cover/ to include	190
6715380496	consuelo	consolation	191
6715382346	reverente	respect/ reverence	192
6715388588	la autoría	authorship	193
6715408135	venganza	vengeance	194
6715415783	"tan largo me lo fías"	Don Juan : carpe diem	195