AP Literature Flashcards

4362351321	Narrvative	A sequence of events that a narrator tells in story form	0
4362351322	Narrator	A storyteller of any kind	1
4362351323	Point of view	The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes	2
4362351324	First-person narration	A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I	3
4362351325	Third-person narration	The narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper banned and third-person pronouns "he," "she," "it," and "they"	4
4362351326	Omniscient narration	The narrator knows all the actions, feelings, and motivations of all the characters	5
4362351327	Limited omniscient narration	The narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters	6
4362351328	Free indirect discourse	The narrator conveys a character's inner thoughts while staying in third person	7
4362351329	Objective narration	A style in which the narrator reports neutrally on the outward behavior of the charades but offers no interpretation of their actions or inner states	8
4362351330	Unreliable narration	The narrator is revealed over time to be an untrustworthy source of information	9
4362351331	Stream-of-consciousness narration	The narrator conveys a subject's thoughts, impressions, and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in a disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and writing	10
4362351332	Character	A person, animal, or any other thing with a personality that appears in a story	11
4362351333	Protagonist	The main character around whom the story revolves	12
4362351334	Hero/heroine	An admirable protagonist	13
4362351335	Antihero/antiheroine	A non admirable protagonist	14
4362351336	Antagonist	The primary character or entity that acts to frustrate the goals of the protagonist	15
4362351337	Stock character	A common character type that recurs throughout literature	16
4362351338	Archetype	A stock character that holds a central place in a culture's folklore or consciousness	17
4362351339	Foil	A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast	18
4362351340	Plot	The arrangement of events in a story, including sequences they are told in, the relative emphasis they're given, and causal connections between events	19
4362351341	Conflict	The central struggle that moves the plot forward	20
4362351342	Rising action	The early part of the narrative which builds momentum and develops the narrative's major conflict	21
4362351343	Climax	The moment of highest tension when the conflict comes to a head	22
4362351344	Falling action/denouement	The latter part of the narrative during which the protagonist responds to the events of the climax and various plot elements introduced in the rising action	23
4362351345	Reversal/peripeteia	A sudden shift that sends the protagonist's fortunes from good to bad or vice versa	24
4362351346	Resolution	An ending that satisfactorily answers all the questions raised over the course of the plot	25
4362351347	Chronological plot	Events arranged in the sequence which they occur	26
4362351348	Archronological plot	Events are not arranged in the sequence they occur	27
4362351349	Climactic plot	All the actions focuses toward a single climax	28
4362351350	Episodic plot	A series of loosely connected events	29
4362351351	Non sequitur plot	Presents events without any clear sequence and characters without any clear motivations	30
4362351352	Subplot	Less importance to the overall story but may serve as a point of contrast or comparison to the main plot	31
4362351353	Setting	Location of a narrative in time and space	32
4362351354	Atmosphere	Suggestive mood that the setting may create	33
4362351355	Figures of speech	Stretch words beyond literal meanings	34
4362351356	Aposiopesis	A breaking off of speech because of rising emotion	35
4362351357	Apostrophe	A direct address to an absent or dead person or to an object, quality or idea	36
4362351358	Assonance	Repetition of similar vowel sounds	37
4362351359	Cacophony	Clash of discordant or harsh sounds within a sentence or phrase	38
4362351360	Chiasmus	Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed "whom I love, I love indeed"	39
4362351361	Colloquialism	Informal expression or slang	40
4362351362	Conceit	Parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas	41
4362351363	Epithet	Phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing	42
4362351364	Euphony	Pleading arrangement of sounds	43
4362351365	Idiom	A common phrase whose meaning that differs from its literal meaning	44
4362351366	Litotes	A statement is affirmed by its negating opposite (double negative)	45
4362351367	Meiosis	Opposite of hyperbole	46
4362351368	Metonymy	Substitute of one term for another that generally is associated with it. "Suits" instead of "businessmen"	47
4362351369	Paradox	A statement that seems absurd or contradictory on its face but expresses a deeper truth	48
4362351370	Paralipsis	Drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it	49
4362351537	Parallelism	Use of similar grammatical structures or word order to suggest a comparison or contrast	50
4362351538	Pathetic faliacy	Human feeling or motivation to nonhuman object	51
4362351539	Periphrasis	Elaborate manner of speech that uses more words than necessary	52
4362351540	Pun	Play on words that exploits similarity in sound	53
4362351541	Synaesthesia	Use one kind of sensory imagery to describe another	54
4362351542	Synecdoche	Part of a whole "my wheels" to "my car"	55
4362351543	Trope	Extend meanings of words by inviting a comparison to other words	56
4362351544	Zeugma	Use of one word to modify two words in the sentence typically in two different ways	57
4362351545	Anagnorisis	A moment of recognition or discovery	58
4362351546	Bathos	Sudden drop from lofty to the trivial or excessively sentimental	59
4362351547	Deus ex machina	Improbable plot twist that brings about a resolution	60
4362351548	Invocation	A prayer for inspiration to a god or muse	61
4362351549	Verbal irony	Sarcasm	62
4362351550	Situational irony	One understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another	63
4362351551	Romantic irony	Author's reminding of his or her presence in the work	64
4362351552	Dramatic irony	Reader knows something the character does not	65
4362351553	Cosmic irony	Perception of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent	66
4362351554	Pathos	Invokes high emotion	67
4362351555	Poetic diction	Use of uncommon phrases	68
4362351556	Poetic license	Liberty authors take with syntax and grammar	69
4362351557	Emblem	Concrete object representing something abstract; differs from symbol because it is a fixed object	70
4362351558	Motif	Recurring structure that develops a work's major themes	71
4362351559	Prosody	Study of elements of poetry	72
4362351560	Accentuate meter	Number of stressed syllables is fixed but total number is not	73
4362351561	Syllabic meter	Number of total fixed, stressed is not	74
4362351562	Accuentual-syllabic meter	Both total and number of stressed syllables are fixed	75
4362351563	Quantitative meter	Duration of each sound syllable determines meter	76
4362351564	Caesura	Grand pause	77
4362351565	Scansion	Process of analyzing number and type of feet	78
4362351566	Iamb	Unstressed followed by stressed	79
4362351567	Trochee	A stressed followed by unstressed	80
4362351568	Dactyl	One stressed followed by two unstressed	81
4362351569	Anapest	Two unstressed follow by a stressed	82
4362351570	Spondee	Two strongly stressed	83
4362351571	Pyrrhic	Two lightly stressed	84
4362351572	Blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	85
4362351573	Ballad	Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming	86
4362351574	Masculine rhyme	Single stressed syllable rhyme "man" and "can"	87
4362351575	Feminine rhyme	A rhyme consisting of a stressed followed by an unstressed "mother" and "brother"	88
4362351576	Couplet	Two successive rhymed lines equal in length	89
4362351577	Quatrain	Four line stanza	90
4362351578	Tercet	A group of 3 lines often with a single rhyme	91
4362351579	Terza rima	Interlaced tercets linked by rhymes	92
4362351580	End stopped	Punctuation at end of line	93
4362351581	Enjambment	Sentence runs into the next line with no pause	94
4362351582	Refrain	A group of lines repeated at significant moments	95
4362351583	Haiku	5 7 5	96
4362351584	Limerick	Fanciful 5 line poem with AABBA rhyme scheme; lines 1, 2, and 5 have 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 have two feet	97
4362351585	Ottava rima	Eight line stanza with iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme ABABABCC	98
4362351586	Sestina	Six 6 line stanzas followed by a 3 line stanza	99
4362351708	Sonnet	Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter	100
4362351709	Italian or Petrarchan sonnet	ABBAABBACDECDE or ABBACDDCCDCCDC	101
4362351710	Shakespearean sonnet	Three quatrains and a couplet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG	102
4362351711	Spenserian sonnet	ABAB BCBC CDCD EE	103
4362351712	Villanelle	19 line poem made of 5 tercets and a quatrain and uses two refrains	104
4375663089	Allegory	Literal meaning corresponds directly to symbolic meaning	105
4375663090	Aphorism	Concise expression of insight or wisdom	106
4375663091	Black comedy	Disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner intended to confront uncomfortable truths	107
4375663092	Burlesque	Humorous imitation of serious literature	108
4375663093	Confessional poetry	Author discusses personal subject frankly	109
4375663094	Didactic literature	Intended to instruct	110
4375663095	Dirge	Short poem of grief	111
4375663096	Eclogue	Short pastoral poem in the form of a soliloquy or between two shepherds	112
4375663097	Elegy	Poem that laments death of another	113
4375663098	Epigram	Witty statement often in verse	114
4375663099	Fable	Short prose that illustrates a moral	115
4375663100	Lyric	Short poetic composition that describes thoughts of a single speaker	116
4375663101	Metafiction	Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself	117
4375663102	Noir	Cynical, disillusioned, loner protagonist	118
4375663103	Bildungsroman	A novel about development into maturity	119
4375663104	Epistolary novel	Novel written in the form of letters	120
4375663105	Picaresque novel	A realistic novel detailing a scoundrel's exploits	121
4375663106	Verse novel	Full length novel written in verse	122
4375663107	Ode	A serious lyric poem	123
4375663108	Parable	Short narrative that illustrates a moral with allegory	124
4375663109	Pastiche	Work that imitates another author or work	125
4375663110	Pastoral	Celebration of life of shepherds and rustic life	126
4375663111	Farce	A high energy comedy play on confusions and deceptions and it's fast paced	127
4375663112	Prose poem	Strong rhythms like free verse but written in form of prose	128
4375663113	Romance	Nonrealistic story about idealized characters	129
4375663114	Satire	A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of others	130