AP Literature Flashcards

6703343244	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning Could represent youth and age,prosperity and time of hardship, struggles of a person to live a Christian Life	0
6703343245	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6703343246	allusion	indirect of passing reference Brave New World --> Shakespeare Ragtime --> topical (current events)	2
6703343247	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6703343248	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6703343249	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6703343250	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6703343251	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6703343253	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	8
6703343254	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds in poety	9
6703343255	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	10
6703343258	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	11
6703343259	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	12
6703343260	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	13
6703343261	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	14
6703343262	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	15
6703343263	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	16
6703343264	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	17
6703343265	connotation	secondary meaning to a word *	18
6703343266	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together " A flock or sick, black checkered"	19
6703343267	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse *	20
6703343268	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	21
6703343269	denouement	final outcome of the story	22
6703343270	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	23
6703343271	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	24
6703343272	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	25
6703343273	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	26
6703343274	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	27
6703343275	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	28
6703343276	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	29
6703343277	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	30
6703343278	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	31
6703343279	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds * when sounds harmoniously	32
6703343280	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	33
6703343281	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	34
6703343283	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	35
6703343284	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	36
6703343285	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	37
6703343286	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	38
6703343287	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	39
6703343288	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	40
6703343289	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	41
6703343290	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	42
6703343291	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	43
6703343292	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality *	44
6703343293	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	45
6703343294	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. --> Romeo Kills himself to go with Juliet but Juliet just takes a sleeping pill	46
6703343295	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	47
6703343296	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	48
6703343297	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	49
6703343298	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	50
6703343299	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	51
6703343300	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	52
6703343301	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	53
6703343302	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	54
6703343303	narrator	Person telling the story	55
6703343304	octave	8 line stanza	56
6703343307	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. * Calm frenzy,dark light	57
6703343308	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	58
6703343309	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	59
6703343310	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes "Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. -Proverbs, 9:1." The abstract concept wisdom is personified by the use of the feminine pronouns.	60
6703343311	plot	Sequence of events in a story	61
6703343312	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	62
6703343313	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	63
6703343314	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	64
6703343315	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	65
6703343316	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	66
6703343317	protagonist	Main character	67
6703343318	quatrain	A four line stanza	68
6703343319	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	69
6703343320	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	70
6703343321	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	71
6703343322	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	72
6703343323	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. *exposes common human flaws and attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed such behavior will be less common	73
6703343324	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	74
6703343325	sestet	6 line stanza	75
6703343326	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	76
6703343327	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	77
6703343328	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	78
6703343329	sonnet	14 line poem	79
6703343330	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	80
6703343331	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	81
6703343332	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	82
6703343333	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	83
6703343334	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	84
6703343335	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	85
6703343336	tercet	3 line stanza	86
6703343337	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	87
6703343338	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	88
6703343339	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	89
6703343340	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	90
6703343341	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	91
6703343342	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	92
6703343343	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	93
6703343344	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.	94
6703347178	syllogism	similar to circular reasoning; Logical reasoning from inarguable premises; the conclusion is unarguable if the syllogism is structured correctly A+ B doesnt equal C Because Socrates is human, he is mortal.	95
6703367959	enthymeme	Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated; instead of having irrefutable general truth for major premise, it is an assumption, statement, or proposition that the writer presumes and the audience accepts. Because John is a man, he is strong.	96
6703371802	pathos	appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response : : it says the pool is contaminated because of those kids that got sick and had to go to hospital for a few weeks.	97
6703377345	Logos	appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. : it's the assertion that the pool is contaminated because there are five confirmed elevated concentrations of strychnine and seven mosquito nests.	98
6703379490	ethos	is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. : it's saying that the pool is contaminated because I'm an expert on water quality and I should know.	99
6703403637	abstract	typically complex, discusses intagible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points	100
6703409760	academic	an adj. describing style, this word means dry and theoretical writing ---> sucks all the life out of it	101
6703414797	accent	stressed portion of a word example: be and not, in " To be or not to be" "That is the question"	102
6703424119	aesthetic	adj meaning appealing to the senses, aesthetic judgement = phrase synonymous with artistic judgement noun = coherent sense of taste	103
6703478654	analogy	comparison; "just as" involve two or symbolic parts and are employed to clarify an action or relationship "Just as the ____ the ____ does this"	104
6703490118	anachronism	"misplaced time" - wearing a watch in a Shakespeare play	105
6703495647	anecdote	short narrative	106
6703501232	anthropomorphism	when inanimate objects, animals, or phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation "the darkness waited for me, i could hear its patient breath" aims to make an animal or object behave and appear like they are human beings. NOT PERSONIFICATION	107
6704034463	anticlimax	occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect --> frequently comic --> "Sir I challenge you to a game of badminton"	108
6704044157	antihero	- protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest --> Hamelt, Raskolnikov	109
6704074471	aphorism	a short and usually witty saying Classic? A book people praise and don't read	110
6704082368	archaism	old-fashioned language. to create a feeling of antiquity	111
6704087257	assonance	repeated us of vowel sounds "Old King Cole was a merry Old Sole"	112
6704095394	ballad	a long narrative poem usually in very regular meter and rhyme. Typically have a naive folksy quality , a characteristic that distinguishes it from epic poety	113
6704103455	bathos	effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. it's the argument that apparently more kids got sick and/or died from swimming in that one pool than live in the county.	114
6704145952	black humor	--> disturbing themes in comedy --> comically debate over which should commit suicide first and whether branches of the tree will support their weight	115
6704167071	bombast	pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language	116
6704172878	cadence	--> the beat or rhythm of poetry in general sense --> example: iambic pentameter	117
6704207788	canto	the name for a section division in a long work of poetry, similar to the way chapters divide a novel	118
6704213730	caricature	exaggerate a facet of personality	119
6704263881	catharsis	refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences having lived through the experiences lived on stage	120
6704394580	coinage	people's names often become grist for coinage - neologism "Oh man you just pulled a major Wilson"	121
6704409578	colloquialism	phrase used in everday English that isn't a part of accepted English "now I've got this wicked headache"	122
6704550328	conceit, controlling image	* startling or unusual metaphor or one developed and expanded upon several lines * when the image dominates and shape the entire work= controlling image	123
6704558221	couplet	* a pair of lines that end in rhyme	124
6704596931	Decorum	* a character's speech must be stayed according to her social station and in accordance with the occasion * A victorian author will always write the same	125
6745918429	syntax	* author's choice of words * ordering and structuring of the words	126
6745924493	dirge	* a song for the dead Its tone is typically slow and heavy and melancholy	127
6745928872	dissonance	* the grating of incompatible	128
6745929667	doggerel	* crude, simplistic verse often in sing-song rhyme * limericks, Hickory Dickory Dock	129
6745941495	elegy	* a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner * lament, to the person, to a rest	130
6745951908	enjambment	* the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause * It is a running on of a thought from one line to another without final punctuation. It is used in poetry to trick a reader. Poets lead their readers to think of an idea then, on the next line, give an idea that conflicts it.	131
6745966066	epic	* simply long narrative poem on a serious theme and in dignified style * deal with glorious or profound subject matters; a great war, a heroic journet	132
6745972979	epitaph	* lines the commemorate the dead at their burial place * line or handful of lines often serious or religious but sometimes witty and even irreverent	133
6745984127	euphemism	* a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality * the used of passed away for died and let go for fired are two examples of euphemism	134
6746001092	farce	* extremely broad humor * could mean funny play a comedy	135
6746019713	feminine rhyme	* final two syllables * a pair of lines ending with running and gunning would be example *	136
6751738395	foil	* a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast	137
6752047026	foot	basic rhythm unit of a line of poetry combination of two or three yllables either stressed or unstressed	138
6752051941	foreshadowing	* an event or statement that suggests a larger event that comes later	139
6752055250	free verse	poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern	140
6752061460	GOTHIC	*mysterious gloomy, castles, weird screams, supernatural,	141
6752065517	hubris	* excessibe pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall *	142
6752073467	hyperbole	* exaggeration or deliberate overstatement	143
6752080122	implicit	to say or write something that suggest and implies but never says	144
6752083822	in media res	* in the midst of things, like starting a story at the middle of the story	145
6752088345	interior monologue	* a term for novels and poetry not dramatic literature * records the mental talking that goes on inside of a character's head like STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS but doesn't focus on the mental things	146
6752117157	inversion	* switching customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase * A pizza large I'll have, one with the fixins in all	147
6752131278	lampoon	* a satire	148
6752167313	lyric	used to describe a poem that is sweet, emotional, melodious	149
6752170271	Metaphor	* comparison or analogy that states one thing is another His eyes were burning coal	150
6752177382	SIMILE	uses like or as, softens the meaning	151
6752182027	metonym	* a word used to stand for something else that is has attributes of or is associated with	152
6752193869	onomatopoeia	* words that sounds like what they means : BOOM, SPLAT, BABBLE, GARGLE	153
6752201388	parable	fable or an allegory	154
6752239517	parallelism	* repeated syntactical similarities used for effect *This technique adds symmetry, effectiveness and balance to the written piece. Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-parallelism.html#Hs1YGHf1D0UWciMZ.99	155
6752250403	pastoral	* a poem set in tranquil nature, or even more specifically one about sheperds	156
6752257741	plaint	a poem on sorrow	157
6752262583	omniscient narrator	* third-person narrator who sees like God, into each character;s mind and understands all the action going on	158
6752272499	limited omniscient narrator	* third-person narator who generally reports only what one characters (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of the one character	159
6752281901	objective or camera-eye narrator	third-person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to the cameria * doesn't know what the characters think unless they mention it	160
6752289360	first person	* characters in the story tells the story * usually unreliable	161
6752314506	stream on consciousness	* the author places the reader inside of the character telling the story, the author places makes the reader privy to all of the character;s thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness	162
6752323114	refrain	a set of lines repeated several times over the course of the poem	163
6752358824	subjunctive mood	If I were you, I'd learn this once	164
6752438782	suspension of disbelief	* demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination	165
6752458254	tragic flaw	* this is weakness of character in an otherwude good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demine	166
6752472641	travesty	* a grotesque parody	167
6752477136	utopia	idealized lace	168
6752477137	zeugma	* the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings * He closed the door and his heart on his lost love	169
6752514797	bildungsroman	* novel structured as a series of events that take place s the hero travels in quest of a goal * like the Jame Joyce's Portrait of the artist struggles to find a place and purpose in life	170
6752531684	carpe diem	* pause seize the day; enjoy life while you can a common theme in literature	171
6752546829	classic	* objectivity, simplicity, and restraint	172
6752554887	Dionysian	pleasure seeking	173
6752560742	elliptical constrution	a sentence containing a deliberate omission of words. IN the sentence a word will be taken away	174
6752574554	expose	a piece of writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailities, or other shortcomings	175
6752599786	harangue	powerful sermon	176
6752649748	idyll	* a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place	177
6752656193	litotes	* a form of understanding in which the negative of the contrar	178
6752677045	naturalism	used as synonymous for realism, bleak and pessimistic	179