AP LITERATURE Flashcards
AP Lit vocabulary
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| 7268790638 | Catharsis (n) | Protagonist's guilt that is purged, rather than the audience's feeling of terror. | 0 | |
| 7268790639 | Flat Character | A character whose character is summed up in one or two traits. | 1 | |
| 7268790640 | Round Characters | A character whose character is complex and many-sided. | 2 | |
| 7268790641 | Stock Characters | A stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous fiction. | 3 | |
| 7268790642 | Denouement (n) | The portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of it's conflicts or the solution of its mysteries. | 4 | |
| 7268790643 | Exposition | Opening part of a play or story in which we are introduced to the characters and their situation, often by reference to preceding events. | 5 | |
| 7268790644 | Hamartia (tragic flaw) | False step that leads the protagonist in a tragedy to his or her downfall. | 6 | |
| 7268790645 | In medias res (n) | "In the middle of things"; beginning a story in the middle of the action. | 7 | |
| 7268790646 | Aestheticism | reverence for beauty; movement that held beautiful form is to be valued more than instructive content. | 8 | |
| 7268790647 | Baroque | A grand and exuberantly ornamental style. | 9 | |
| 7268790648 | Classicism | An adherence to the principles of Greek and Roman Literature. | 10 | |
| 7268790649 | Convention | A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression . | 11 | |
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| 7268790651 | Denotation | The precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones. | 13 | |
| 7268790652 | Digression (noun) | A portion of a written work that interrupts or pauses the progression of the theme or plot. | 14 | |
| 7268790653 | Epigraph | The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work of literature that hints at its theme. | 15 | |
| 7268790654 | Existentialism | A philosophical movement that focuses on the individual human being's experience of recognition of, and triumph over, the meaninglessness of existence. | 16 | |
| 7268790655 | Expressionism | presents life not as it appears on the surface, but as it is passionately felt to be by an author or character. | 17 | |
| 7268790656 | Hedonism (n) | The pursuit of pleasure above all else. | 18 | |
| 7268790657 | Invective (n) | Direct denunciation or name calling. | 19 | |
| 7268790658 | Juxtaposition | the "side by side" comparison of two or more objects or ideals for the purpose of highlighting similarities or differences. | 20 | |
| 7268790659 | Malapropism | The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but different in meaning. | 21 | |
| 7268790660 | Naturalism | Style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle for survival. | 22 | |
| 7268790661 | Primitivism | The belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the noble savage. | 23 | |
| 7268790662 | Realism | An author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality. | 24 | |
| 7268790663 | Regionalism | The tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality, re-creating as accurately as possible it's unique setting, speech, customs, manners, beliefs and history. | 25 |