AP Literature Flashcards

4926536588	Aside	words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the actors on stage.	0
4926538546	Comic Relief	an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action.	1
4926544131	Conflict	opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces.	2
4926546326	Denouement	the portion of the plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or solution of its mysteries.	3
4926548866	Foil	a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	4
4926551865	Foreshadowing	device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action.	5
4926556149	Hamartia	tragic flaw; a defect in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings about his or her downfall.	6
4926558022	Hubris or Hybris	great pride that brings about the downfall of a character in a Greek drama or in other works of literature.	7
4926561196	Melodrama	literary works of film that uses maudlin sedimentary and sterotypical characters.	8
4926566925	Soliloquy	recitations in a play in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience but not to other characters in the play.	9
4926569944	Tragedy	a type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.	10
4926571785	Tragic Flaw	a weakness or a limitation of character, resulting in the flaw of the tragic hero.	11
4926574682	Tragic Hero	a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering.	12
4926579281	Inversion	changing of the usual order of words for emphasis.	13
4926580731	Dramatic Irony	theater; irony that occurs when the meeting of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	14
4926583061	Metaphor	comparing one thing to an unlike thing without using like, as, or than.	15