AP LITERATURE Flashcards

2580763670	terza rima	a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next	0
2580763671	rhythm	the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech	1
2580765549	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true	2
2580765550	sestina	a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet; the same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time	3
2580766861	tragedy	a drama in which a character, usually of noble or high rank, is brought to a disastrous end in confrontation with a superior force	4
2580767746	setting	the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play	5
2580767747	Petrachan sonnet	a sonnet form divided into an octave and a sestet; also called an Italian sonnet	6
2580769067	symbolism	a person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents something else	7
2580769068	speaker	the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of the poem	8
2580770041	onomatopoeia	a work capturing the sound of what it describes	9
2580771204	Shakespearean sonnet	a sonnet form divided into three quatrains and one couplet; also called an English sonnet	10
2580771205	personification	treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities	11
2580772666	assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity	12
2580772667	protagonist	the main character in a work who may or may not be heroic	13
2580774112	solioquy	the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself	14
2580776221	simile	a direct, explicit comparison of two things, usually using like or as to draw the connection	15
2580778081	rhyme	the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines	16
2580778082	quatrain	a poetic stanza of four lines	17
2580778833	refrain	a repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song	18
2580778834	archetype	recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature	19
2580780011	persona	the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author	20
2580780012	parallel structure	the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts; maintains balance and symmetry	21
2580781165	structure	the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work	22
2580781166	ancedote	a brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature	23
2580783230	juxtaposition	the location of one thing as being adjacent with another; this placement of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer	24
2580783231	realism	the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail	25
2580785070	parable	a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy	26
2580785071	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement	27
2580786140	omniscient	also called unlimited focus; a perspective that can be seen from multiple characters	28
2580786938	connotation	what is suggested by a word, apart from what it explictly describes	29
2580788524	narrator	the character who tells the story	30
2580788525	narrative structure	a textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework	31
2580789989	tone	the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme	32
2580789990	allegory	a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance; often is a universal symbol or personified abstraction	33
2580791281	villanelle	a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets and one quatrain; the first and third line of the first tercet rhyme, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain	34
2580792589	metaphor	one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them; an implicit comparison of two unlike things	35
2580792590	mood	a feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view	36
2580793751	consonance	the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels	37
2580793752	lyric	any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than desciribing a narrative or dramatic situation; a sonnet and ode are two examples	38
2580795270	irony	a situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant	39
2580795271	informal diction	language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech	40
2580796866	imagery	broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object	41
2580796867	dramatic monologue	also, a soliloquy; a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience	42
2580798254	motif	a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event	43
2580798255	conceit	a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature; in particular, an extended metaphor within a poem	44
2580799173	iambic	a metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	45
2580799995	hyperbole	overstatement characterized by exaggerated language	46
2580799996	genre	a type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry	47
2580801163	free verse	poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines	48
2580801164	style	a distinctive manner of expression expressed through an author's diction, rhythm, imagery, and more	49
2580803595	alliteration	the sequential repetition of similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables	50
2580805022	satire	a literary work that holds up human failing to ridicule	51
2580805023	exposition	that part of the structure of a plot that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play	52
2580806163	formal diction	language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal	53
2580806164	in-medis-res	refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filing in past details by exposition or flashback; literally, "in the midst of things"	54
2580807619	farce	a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor	55
2580807620	extended metaphor	a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work; also called a conceit	56
2580808973	allusion	a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place	57
2580808974	epic	a poem that celebrates, in a continuou narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture	58
2580810180	elegy	a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation	59
2580810181	flashback	retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative	60
2580811142	syntax	the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	61
2580811143	diction	the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect	62
2580812666	synechdoche	the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people	63
2580812667	dialect	the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people	64
2580814013	couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection	65
2580814916	theme	the dominant abstract idea or concern of a work	66
2580814917	colloquial	ordinary language, the vernacular	67
2580816483	antagonist	any force that is in opposition to the main character	68
2580816484	caesura	pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns	69
2580817942	blank verse	the verse form consisting of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter	70
2580817943	denotation	a direct and specific meaning, often dictionary	71
2580819250	apostrophe	an address or invocation to something that is inanimate	72
2580819251	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	73
2580820983	ode	a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three	74
2580820984	pastoral	a work that describes the simple life of country folk who live in a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love; bucolic, idyll	75
2580824729	enjambment	the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next	76
2580824730	foreshadowing	to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand	77