AP Literature: Quiz 3 Flashcards

6266419712	pathos	appeal to emotion	0
6266419713	pentameter	a line of five feet	1
6266419714	periodic sentence	a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense	2
6266419715	peripeteia	a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal in a tragedy	3
6266419716	personification	the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human	4
6266419717	plot	the careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect	5
6266419718	point of view	the vantage point, or stance, from which a story is told	6
6266419719	polysyndeton	the opposite of asyndeton. the use of many conjugations has a slowing effect.	7
6266419720	post-modernism	a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth.	8
6266419721	primitivism	the belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the nobel savage	9
6266419722	prosody	the study of sound and rhythm in poetry	10
6266419723	pun	a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings	11
6266419724	puritanism	extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity	12
6266419725	quatrain	a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed	13
6266419726	rationalism	the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience	14
6266419727	realism	the author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality	15
6266419728	regionalism	the tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality, re-creating as accurately as possible its unique setting, speech, customs, manners, beliefs and history	16
6266419729	rhetoric	the art of persuasion, in speaking or writing	17
6266419730	rising action	the part of a plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest and poe to the climax or turning point	18
6266419731	romanticism	literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form	19
6266419732	sarcasm	harsh, cutting, personal remarks to or about someone, not necessarily ironic	20
6266419733	satire	any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism directed at a particular folly, vice or stupidity. satire seeks to correct, improve, or reform through ridicule	21
6266419734	setting	the general locale, time in history, or social milieu in which the action takes place	22
6266419735	simile	a less direct metaphor, using like or as	23
6266419736	situational irony	the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs	24
6266419737	slant rhyme	inexact rhyme between two words	25
6266419738	soliloquy	a speech by one character while alone on the stage or under the impression of being alone	26
6266419739	sonnet	a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter	27
6266419740	speaker's attitude	the speaker's viewpoint regarding his subject matter	28
6266419741	stanza	a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose	29
6266419742	stock character	a stereotyped character; one familiar to use from examples in previous fiction	30
6266419743	stream of consciousness	a technique in which the reader sees the continuous, chaotic flow of a character's thoughts	31
6266419744	structure	the pattern of organization	32
6266419745	style	how the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text	33
6266419746	surrealism	employs illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious	34
6266419747	syllogism	a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion (A=B B=C A=C)	35
6266419748	symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it	36
6266419749	synathesia	the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another	37
6266419750	synecdoche	figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of a whole	38
6266419751	syntax	the rules or patterns of grammatical language	39
6266419752	theme	an abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter	40
6266419753	title character	a character who gives his/her name to the work	41
6266419754	tone	the reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject	42
6266419755	tragedy	a drama in which the protagonist, a person of high position, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgement or flaw in his or her nature	43
6266419756	tragic flaw	the defect of a character that brings about the protagonist's downfall in a tragedy	44
6266419757	transcendentalism	the american version of romanticism; held that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature -- a spark of divinity	45
6266419758	trope	any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense	46
6266419759	unity of action	a tragedy that has one main action that it follows with no or few subplots	47
6266419760	verbal irony	a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant	48
6266419761	verisimilitude	the appearance or semblance of truth	49
6266419762	villanelle	a lyric poem made up of five stanzas of three lines, plus a final stanza of four lines	50
6266419763	voice	how a written work conveys to a reader of the writer's attitude, personality, and character	51
6266419764	wit	ingenuity in connecting amusingly incongruous ideas; intellect, humor	52