AP Literature Flashcards

6722919220	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6722919221	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6722919222	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6722919223	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6722919224	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6722919225	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6722919226	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6722919227	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6722919228	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6722919229	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6722919230	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6722919231	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6722919232	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6722919233	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6722919234	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6722919235	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6722919236	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6722919237	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6722919238	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6722919239	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6722919240	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6722919241	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6722919242	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6722919243	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6722919244	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6722919245	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6722919246	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6722919247	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6722919248	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6722919249	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6722919250	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6722919251	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6722919252	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6722919253	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6722919254	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6722919255	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6722919256	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6722919257	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6722919258	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6722919259	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6722919260	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6722919261	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6722919262	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6722919263	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6722919264	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6722919265	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6722919266	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6722919267	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6722919268	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6722919269	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6722919270	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
6722919271	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6722919272	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
6722919273	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6722919274	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6722919275	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6722919276	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6722919277	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6722919278	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6722919279	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6722919280	octave	8 line stanza	60
6722919281	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6722919282	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6722919283	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6722919284	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6722919285	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6722919286	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6722919287	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6722919288	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6722919289	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
6722919290	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6722919291	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6722919292	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6722919293	protagonist	Main character	73
6722919294	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6722919295	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6722919296	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6722919297	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6722919298	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6722919299	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6722919300	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6722919301	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6722919302	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6722919303	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6722919304	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6722919305	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6722919306	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6722919307	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6722919308	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6722919309	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6722919310	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6722919311	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6722919312	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6722919313	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6722919314	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6722919315	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6722919316	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6722919317	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6722919318	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6722919319	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6722919320	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
6722920648	analogy	compares two things to show similarity	101
6722921218	aphorism	clever one line observation about life	102
6722926182	ballad	ancient story in poetic verse	103
6722928516	biography	book written ab	104