Ap literature Flashcards

6754805650	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6754805651	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6754805652	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6754805653	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6754805654	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6754805655	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6754805656	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6754805657	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6754805658	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6754805659	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6754805660	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6754805661	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6754805662	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6754805663	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6754805664	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6754805665	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6754805666	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6754805667	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6754805668	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6754805669	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6754805670	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6754805671	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6754805672	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6754805673	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6754805674	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6754805675	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6754805676	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6754805677	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6754805678	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6754805679	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6754805680	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6754805681	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6754805682	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6754805683	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
6754805684	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6754805685	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6754805686	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6754805687	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6754805688	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6754805689	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6754805690	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6754805691	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6754805692	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6754805693	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6754805694	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6754805695	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6754805696	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6754805697	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6754805698	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6754805699	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6754805700	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
6754805701	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6754805702	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
6754805703	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6754805704	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6754805705	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6754805706	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6754805707	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6754805708	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6754805709	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6754805710	octave	8 line stanza	60
6754805711	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6754805712	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6754805713	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6754805714	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6754805715	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6754805716	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6754805717	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6754805718	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6754805719	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
6754805720	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6754805721	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6754805722	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6754805723	protagonist	Main character	73
6754805724	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6754805725	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6754805726	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6754805727	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6754805728	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6754805729	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6754805730	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6754805731	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6754805732	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6754805733	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6754805734	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6754805735	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6754805736	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6754805737	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6754805738	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6754805739	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6754805740	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6754805741	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6754805742	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6754805743	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6754805744	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6754805745	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6754805746	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6754805747	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6754805748	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6754805749	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6754805750	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