AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

6857287484	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6857287485	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6857287486	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6857287487	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6857287488	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6857287489	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6857287490	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
6857287491	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
6857287492	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
6857287493	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
6857287494	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
6857287495	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
6857287496	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
6857287497	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
6857287498	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
6857287499	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
6857287500	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
6857287501	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
6857287502	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
6857287503	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
6857287504	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
6857287505	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
6857287506	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
6857287507	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
6857287508	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
6857287509	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
6857287510	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
6857287511	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
6857287512	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
6857287513	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
6857287514	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
6857287515	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
6857287516	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
6857287517	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg	33
6857287518	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
6857287519	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
6857287520	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
6857287521	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
6857287522	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
6857287523	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
6857287524	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
6857287525	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
6857287526	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
6857287527	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
6857287528	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
6857287529	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
6857287530	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
6857287531	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
6857287532	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
6857287533	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
6857287534	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
6857287535	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
6857287536	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
6857287537	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
6857287538	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
6857287539	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
6857287540	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
6857287541	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
6857287542	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
6857287543	narrator	Person telling the story	59
6857287544	octave	8 line stanza	60
6857287545	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
6857287546	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
6857287547	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
6857287548	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
6857287549	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
6857287550	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
6857287551	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
6857287552	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
6857287553	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
6857287554	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
6857287555	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
6857287556	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
6857287557	protagonist	Main character	73
6857287558	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
6857287559	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
6857287560	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
6857287561	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
6857287562	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
6857287563	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
6857287564	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
6857287565	sestet	6 line stanza	81
6857287566	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
6857287567	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
6857287568	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
6857287569	sonnet	14 line poem	85
6857287570	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
6857287571	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
6857287572	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
6857287573	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
6857287574	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
6857287575	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
6857287576	tercet	3 line stanza	92
6857287577	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
6857287578	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
6857287579	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
6857287580	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
6857287581	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
6857287582	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
6857287583	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
6857287584	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