AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

4861609754	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
4861623216	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
4861624714	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
4861625660	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence, to have an artistic meaning	3
4861627656	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
4861629477	apostrophe	figure of speech used to address an imaginary character	5
4861631294	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
4861632715	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
4861634717	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
4861635822	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
4861636954	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
4861638033	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
4861638034	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
4861645539	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	13
4861647568	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	14
4861649204	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	15
4861650682	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	16
4861652268	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	17
4861654761	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	18
4861656716	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	19
4976857403	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	20
4976863100	denouement	final outcome of the story	21
4976865524	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	22
4976869304	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	23
4976874118	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	24
4976878365	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (EX: born scorn)	25
4976885143	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world`	26
4976891339	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	27
4976893302	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	28
4976895716	english sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	29
4976901432	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into their life	30
4976907300	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	31
4976909863	extended figure	a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem	32
5092449201	falling action	events after the climax, leading to the resolution	33
5092450177	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	34
5092451042	figurative language	language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling	35
5092452716	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	36
5092453677	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, stressed and unstressed syllables	37
5092455346	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	38
5092456187	free verse	poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	39
5223168891	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	40
5223175435	hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	41
5223180888	imagery	description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	42
5223185153	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	43
5223188303	internal rhyme	a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	44
5223190849	irony	a contrast between expectation and reality	45
5223198320	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	46
5223202984	italian sonnet	a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	47
5355217042	masculine rhyme	a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	48
5355217043	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	49
5355217044	metaphor	a comparison without using like or as	50
5355217045	meter	a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	51
5355217046	metonymy	a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	52
5355217047	motivation	a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	53
5910664995	narrator	person telling the story	54
5910664996	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events	55
5910664997	octave	8 line stanza	56
5910664998	omniscient point of view	the point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person	57
5910664999	onomatopoeia	a word that imitates the sound it represents	58
5910665000	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	59
5910665001	paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	60
5910665002	paraphrase	a restatement of a text or passage in your own words	61
5910665003	personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	62
5910665004	plot	sequence of events in a story	63
5910665005	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	64
5910665006	protagonist	main character	65
5910665007	quatrain	4 line stanza	66
5910665008	rhyme scheme	a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	67
5910665009	rhythm	a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions	68
5910665010	rising action	events leading up to the climax	69
5910665011	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	70
6032823487	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	71
6032823488	satire	a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies	72
6032823489	scansion	analysis of verse into metrical patterns	73
6032823490	sestet	6 line stanza	74
6032823491	setting	the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs	75
6032823492	simile	a comparison using "like" or "as"	76
6032823493	soliloquy	a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	77
6032823494	sonnet	14 line poem	78
6032823495	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	79
6032823496	static character	person who doesn't change throughout the story; keeps same personality	80
6032823497	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	81
6032823498	syllabic verse	verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line	82
6032823499	symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else	83
6032823500	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	84
6032823501	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another	85
6032823502	tercet	3 line stanza	86
6032823503	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	87
6032823504	theme	central idea of a work of literature	88
6032823505	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's POV	89
6032823506	tone	attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	90
6032823507	tragedy	a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	91
6032823508	truncation	utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted	92
6032823509	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude that it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	93
6032823510	verbal irony	a figure of soeech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	94
6032823511	verse	a single line of petry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having rhyme	95
6032823512	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 terct recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain	96