Ap literature es Flashcards

5601784800	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
5601784801	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
5601784802	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
5601784803	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
5601784804	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
5601784805	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
5601784806	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
5601784807	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
5601784808	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
5601784809	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
5601784810	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
5601784811	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
5601784812	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
5601784813	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
5601784814	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
5601784815	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
5601784816	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
5601784817	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
5601784818	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
5601784819	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
5601784820	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
5601784821	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
5601784822	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
5601784823	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
5601784824	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
5601784825	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
5601784826	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
5601784827	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
5601784828	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
5601784829	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
5601784830	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
5601784831	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
5601784832	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
5601784833	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
5601784834	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
5601784835	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
5601784836	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
5601784837	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
5601784838	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
5601784839	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
5601784840	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
5601784841	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
5601784842	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
5601784843	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
5601784844	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
5601784845	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
5601784846	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
5601784847	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
5601784848	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
5601784849	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
5601784850	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
5601784851	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
5601784852	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
5601784853	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
5601784854	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
5601784855	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
5601784856	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
5601784857	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
5601784858	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
5601784859	narrator	Person telling the story	59
5601784860	octave	8 line stanza	60
5601784861	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
5601784862	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
5601784863	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
5601784864	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
5601784865	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
5601784866	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
5601784867	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
5601784868	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
5601784869	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
5601784870	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
5601784871	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
5601784872	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
5601784873	protagonist	Main character	73
5601784874	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
5601784875	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
5601784876	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
5601784877	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
5601784878	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
5601784879	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
5601784880	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
5601784881	sestet	6 line stanza	81
5601784882	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
5601784883	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
5601784884	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
5601784885	sonnet	14 line poem	85
5601784886	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
5601784887	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
5601784888	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
5601784889	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
5601784890	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
5601784891	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
5601784892	tercet	3 line stanza	92
5601784893	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
5601784894	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
5601784895	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
5601784896	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
5601784897	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
5601784898	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
5601784899	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
5601784900	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