AP Literature Flashcards

6667790342	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
6667790343	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
6667790344	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
6667790345	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
6667790346	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
6667790347	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
6667790349	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	6
6667790350	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	7
6667790351	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	8
6667790352	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	9
6667790354	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	10
6667790355	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	11
6667790356	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	12
6667790357	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	13
6667790358	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	14
6667790359	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	15
6667790360	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	16
6667790361	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	17
6667790362	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	18
6667790363	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	19
6667790364	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	20
6667790365	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	21
6667790366	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	22
6667790367	denouement	final outcome of the story	23
6667790368	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	24
6667790369	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	25
6667790372	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	26
6667790373	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	27
6667790375	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	28
6667790376	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	29
6667790377	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	30
6667790379	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	31
6667790381	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	32
6667790382	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	33
6667790383	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	34
6667790385	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	35
6667790386	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	36
6667790387	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	37
6667790390	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	38
6667790391	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	39
6667790392	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	40
6667790393	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	41
6667790397	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	42
6667790398	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	43
6667790399	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	44
6667790400	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	45
6667790401	narrator	Person telling the story	46
6667790402	octave	8 line stanza	47
6667790403	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	48
6667790404	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	49
6667790405	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	50
6667790406	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	51
6667790407	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	52
6667790408	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	53
6667790409	plot	Sequence of events in a story	54
6667790410	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	55
6667790411	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	56
6667790412	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	57
6667790413	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	58
6667790414	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	59
6667790415	protagonist	Main character	60
6667790416	quatrain	A four line stanza	61
6667790417	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	62
6667790418	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	63
6667790419	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	64
6667790420	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	65
6667790421	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	66
6667790422	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	67
6667790423	sestet	6 line stanza	68
6667790424	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	69
6667790425	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	70
6667790426	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	71
6667790427	sonnet	14 line poem	72
6667790428	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	73
6667790429	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	74
6667790431	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	75
6667790432	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	76
6667790433	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	77
6667790434	tercet	3 line stanza	78
6667790435	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	79
6667790436	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	80
6667790437	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	81
6667790438	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	82
6667790440	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	83
6667790441	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	84
6667790442	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.	85