Ap Literature and Composition Terms 2017-2018 Flashcards

7398346411	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
7398346412	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
7398346413	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
7398346414	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
7398346415	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
7398346416	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
7398346417	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
7398346418	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
7398346419	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
7398346420	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
7398346421	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
7398346422	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
7398346423	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
7398346424	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
7398346425	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
7398346426	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
7398346427	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
7398346428	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
7398346429	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
7398346430	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
7398346431	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
7398346432	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
7398346433	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
7398346434	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
7398346435	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
7398346436	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
7398346437	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
7398346438	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
7398346439	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
7398346440	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
7398346441	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
7398346442	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
7398346443	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
7398346444	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
7398346445	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
7398346446	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
7398346447	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
7398346448	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
7398346449	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
7398346450	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
7398346451	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
7398346452	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
7398346453	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
7398346454	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
7398346455	hamartia	a fate-based tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
7398346456	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
7398346457	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
7398346458	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
7398346459	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
7398346460	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
7398346461	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
7398346462	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
7398346463	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
7398346464	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
7398346465	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
7398346466	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
7398346467	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
7398346468	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
7398346469	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
7398346470	narrator	Person telling the story	59
7398346471	octave	8 line stanza	60
7398346472	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
7398346473	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
7398346474	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
7398346475	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
7398346476	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
7398346477	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
7398346478	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
7398346479	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
7398346480	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
7398346481	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
7398346482	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
7398346483	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
7398346484	protagonist	Main character	73
7398346485	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
7398346486	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
7398346487	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
7398346488	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
7398346489	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
7398346490	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
7398346491	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
7398346492	sestet	6 line stanza	81
7398346493	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
7398346494	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
7398346495	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
7398346496	sonnet	14 line poem	85
7398346497	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
7398346498	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
7398346499	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
7398346500	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
7398346501	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
7398346502	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
7398346503	tercet	3 line stanza	92
7398346504	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
7398346505	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
7398346506	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
7398346507	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
7398346508	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
7398346509	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
7398346510	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
7398346511	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
10643034945	Bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.	101