AP Literature Flashcards

7271898022	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
7271898023	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
7271898024	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
7271898025	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
7271898026	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
7271898027	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
7271898028	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
7271898029	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
7271898030	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
7271898031	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
7271898032	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
7271898033	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
7271898034	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
7271898035	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
7271898036	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
7271898037	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
7271898038	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
7271898039	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
7271898040	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
7271898041	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
7271898042	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
7271898043	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
7271898044	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
7271898045	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
7271898046	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
7271898047	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
7271898048	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
7271898049	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
7271898050	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
7271898051	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
7271898052	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
7271898053	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
7271898054	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
7271898055	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
7271898056	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
7271898057	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
7271898058	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
7271898059	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
7271898060	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
7271898061	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
7271898062	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
7271898063	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
7271898064	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
7271898065	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
7271898066	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
7271898067	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
7271898068	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
7271898069	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
7271898070	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
7271898071	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
7271898072	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
7271898073	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
7271898074	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
7271898075	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
7271898076	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
7271898077	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
7271898078	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
7271898079	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
7271898080	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
7271898081	narrator	Person telling the story	59
7271898082	octave	8 line stanza	60
7271898083	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
7271898084	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
7271898085	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
7271898086	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
7271898087	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
7271898088	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
7271898089	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
7271898090	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
7271898091	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
7271898092	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
7271898093	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
7271898094	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
7271898095	protagonist	Main character	73
7271898096	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
7271898097	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
7271898098	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
7271898099	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
7271898100	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
7271898101	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
7271898102	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
7271898103	sestet	6 line stanza	81
7271898104	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
7271898105	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
7271898106	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
7271898107	sonnet	14 line poem	85
7271898108	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
7271898109	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
7271898110	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
7271898111	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
7271898112	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
7271898113	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
7271898114	tercet	3 line stanza	92
7271898115	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
7271898116	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
7271898117	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
7271898118	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
7271898119	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
7271898120	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
7271898121	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
7271898122	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