AP Literature Flashcards

7338396346	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	0
7338396348	anaphora	repetition in first part of several sentences, meant to have an artistic meaning	1
7338396349	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	2
7338396358	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	3
7338396359	round character	character who has a complex personality: contradicted person	4
7338396360	dynamic character	type of character who changes throughout the story, through major conflict	5
7338396361	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story; keeps same personality	6
7338396362	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	7
7338396363	climax	point where conflict and tension hits its highest point	8
7338396364	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	9
7338396365	hegelian tragedy	a tragedy where there is a struggle between opposing forces	10
7338396368	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	11
7338396373	direct characterization	author directly tells the reader about the character	12
7338396378	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg	13
7338396382	falling action	the release of tension in a story	14
7338396389	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	15
7338396391	indirect characterization	the author shows rather than tells about the character through external and internal descriptions	16
7338396395	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	17
7338396397	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	18
7338396400	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	19
7338396401	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	20
7338396402	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	21
7338396405	octave	8 line stanza	22
7338396407	hyperbole	extreme exaggerated	23
7338396410	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	24
7338396411	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	25
7338396412	plot	Sequence of events in a story	26
7338396418	protagonist	Main character	27
7338396419	quatrain	A four line stanza	28
7338396420	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	29
7338396421	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	30
7338396422	rising action	Events leading up to the climax; increase in tension	31
7338396426	sestet	6 line stanza	32
7338396430	sonnet	14 line poem	33
7338396431	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	34
7338396434	symbol	An object, place, or character that represents something more or something other than itself	35
7338396435	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	36
7338396436	synesthesia	mingling of sensations; one sense replaces another	37
7338396437	tercet	3 line stanza	38
7338396439	theme	Central idea or dominating thought of a work of literature	39
7338396440	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	40
7338396441	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	41
7338396444	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	42
7397061463	metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, aesthetics	5 branches of philosophy	43
7397067852	metaphysics	ideas that are beyond scientific study (ex. religion)	44
7576150848	epistemology	the study of knowledge (how do we know?)	45
7576162495	ethics	What should I do?	46
7576167111	politics	the study of force (ethics applied to groups)	47
7576177543	aesthetics	the study of art (what makes this beautiful?)	48
7576261809	sign	an object, picture or word which signifies something else	49
7576271809	archetype	a symbol that transcends through time and culture	50
7576276534	human nature, the nature of society, fate and freedom, ethics	4 major themes	51
7576300270	metonym	a word used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely related	52
7576319917	aside (poetry)	one character speaks, only audience knows whats said	53
7576335758	soliloquy	one character alone delivers a speech; if another person is present, they aren't hearing	54
7576416284	simile	comparing two things using like or as	55
7576421173	metaphysical conceit	a far-stretched comparison between a spiritual aspect of a person and a physical thing in the world	56
7576495309	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	57
7576499054	ballad narrative poem	songlike poem that tells a story	58
7576504038	epic narrative poem	the hero of the story embodies the values and aspirations of the poets culture	59
7576515439	dramatic poem	makes use of the conventions of drama	60
7576529222	dramatic monologue	a poem or a speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a listener (soliloquy)	61
7576544222	dramatic dialogue	a poem in which two speakers converse with one another	62
7576550566	lyric poem	a poem that expresses the observations and the feelings of a single speaker	63
7576562475	lyric elegy	a reflective poem that laments the loss of someone or something	64
7576570221	lyric ode	a long, formal lyric poem, usually meditative, that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified manner.	65
7576586008	lyric sonnet	a lyric poem that consists of fourteen lines and follows a traditional rhyme scheme. Love is the most common theme	66
7576604370	scansion	study of rhyme and meter	67
7576626314	unstressed syllable	the part of the word that you don't emphasize or accent. Marked with a (ᵕ)	68
7576640357	stressed syllable	the part of the word that you emphasize or accent. Marked with a (')	69
7576659909	foot	a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables	70
7576672309	iambic pentameter	a line or verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable	71
7576706912	scene	changing of setting or characters in a play	72
7576710993	act	major divisions in a play	73
7576737432	enjambment	a line of poetry that does not coincide with the end of the line poetry	74
7576751225	concrete poetry	where the poem's meaning changes or is conveyed through patterns of words or visual effects	75
7576761071	poetic shift	a dramatic shift in a poem; usually through tone	76
7576791276	end-stop-line	pause at the end of the poem. emphasizes last word	77
7576799145	rhyme	similarity of sound between words or the endings of words	78
7576830201	half-rhyme	a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.	79
7576839699	internal rhyme	a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.	80
7576849978	exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement	traditional plot structure	81
7576873660	exposition	introduction of characters and setting	82
7576883779	conflict	in the plot, a struggle between two opposing characters or forces	83
7576889787	person vs. person, person vs. environment, person vs. society, person vs. the supernatural	4 types of external conflict	84
7576904475	internal conflict	type of conflict; person vs. self	85
7576906989	denouement	how the story turns out	86
7576937659	myth	a legendary or traditional story	87
7576955983	point of view	the vantage point from which the author chooses to tell the story	88
7576963455	1st person pov	told from the point of view of a single character	89
7576993666	2nd person pov	rare form of literature which places the reader into the narrative	90
7577005056	3rd person omniscient pov	story narrated by a godlike being who can shift from character to character	91
7577013849	3rd person limited	story where the narrator can see through the eyes and mind of a single character	92
7577024760	unobtrusive narrator	there is no commentary from the narrator; the narrator is the objective and detached from the story	93
7577031474	unreliable narrator	a narrator who seems trustworthy at first, but the reader starts questioning the validity of the story being told	94
7577048976	setting	the background against which the action takes place	95
7577145162	sensuous world, chronology, societal, emotional	4 elements to setting	96
7577055147	sensuous world (setting)	the description of the physical place through any of the five senses	97
7577068564	time period, time of the narrative, chronology arrangement	3 elements of time and chronology (setting)	98
7577088517	social environment (setting)	the manners, customs, culture, and moral values that govern the historic time	99
7577139156	atmosphere and mood	2 elements of emotional setting	100
7577190978	atmosphere	the emotional reaction the reader and the characters have to the setting	101
7577196085	mood	the atmosphere of a literary piece	102
7577207287	foil	a character with qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character	103
7577268306	character arc	the transformation or inner journey of a character over the course of a story	104
7967878491	anachronism	a thing existing in a period other than that in which it exists	105
7967913945	apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, place, or thing	106
7967918939	consonance	repetition of similar consonant sounds	107
7967923630	assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds	108
7967927593	canto	one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided	109
7967933014	free verse	an open form of poetry; has no consistent rhyme	110
7967939526	blank verse	poetry written in regular metrics but unrhymed lines	111
7967943098	refrain	a repeated line that is repeated over and over again	112
7967953202	dues ex machina	where a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected intervention of a new event	113