AP Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

2764443203	Antagonist	The protagonist's adversary	0
2764453469	Diction	Word choice	1
2798578033	Dénouement	Final resolution	2
2798578410	Figurative Language	Speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special meaning	3
2798579566	Flashback	When a character remembers a past event that is relevant to the current action	4
2798580205	Foreshadowing	Clues in the text about incidents that will occur later in the plot	5
2798586480	In Media Res	A story that begins in the middle of things	6
2798586481	Genre	A category of artistic composition marked by a distinctive style, form, or content	7
2798586482	Imagery	The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.	8
2798586483	Irony	When one thing should occur, but the opposite actually occurs.	9
2798586484	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another	10
2798587312	Narrator	Someone who tells a story	11
2798587851	Motif	A dominant theme or central idea	12
2798588380	Paradox	Statement which seems to contradict itself	13
2798589341	Protagonist	Main character	14
2798589918	Prose	Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form.	15
2798590888	Simile	Comparison between two things using like or as	16
2798591786	Style	Combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance	17
2798595574	Symbolism	Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention	18
2798596289	Tone	Reflects how the author feels or wants the reader to feel	19