AP Literature Flashcards

7054405608	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
7054405609	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
7054405610	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
7054405611	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
7054405612	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
7054405613	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
7054405614	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
7054405615	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
7054405616	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
7054405617	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
7054405618	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
7054405619	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
7054405620	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
7054405621	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
7054405622	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
7054405623	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
7054405624	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
7054405625	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
7054405626	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
7054405627	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
7054405628	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
7054405629	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
7054405630	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
7054405631	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
7054405632	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
7054405633	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
7054405634	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
7054405635	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
7054405636	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
7054405637	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
7054405638	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
7054405639	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
7054405640	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
7054405641	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
7054405642	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
7054405643	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
7054405644	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
7054405645	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
7054405646	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
7054405647	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
7054405648	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
7054405649	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
7054405650	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
7054405651	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
7054405652	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
7054405653	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
7054405654	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
7054405655	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
7054405656	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
7054405657	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
7054405658	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
7054405659	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
7054405660	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
7054405661	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
7054405662	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
7054405663	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
7054405664	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
7054405665	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
7054405666	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
7054405667	narrator	Person telling the story	59
7054405668	octave	8 line stanza	60
7054405669	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
7054405670	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
7054405671	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
7054405672	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
7054405673	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
7054405674	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
7054405675	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
7054405676	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
7054405677	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
7054405678	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
7054405679	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
7054405680	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
7054405681	protagonist	Main character	73
7054405682	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
7054405683	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
7054405684	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
7054405685	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
7054405686	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
7054405687	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
7054405688	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
7054405689	sestet	6 line stanza	81
7054405690	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
7054405691	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
7054405692	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
7054405693	sonnet	14 line poem	85
7054405694	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
7054405695	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
7054405696	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
7054405697	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
7054405698	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
7054405699	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
7054405700	tercet	3 line stanza	92
7054405701	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
7054405702	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
7054405703	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
7054405704	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
7054405705	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
7054405706	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
7054405707	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
7054405708	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