AP Literature Flashcards

3659535625	act	a major unit of action in a drama or play	0
3659539568	allegory	a story in which people, things and actions represent an idea about life	1
3659543446	alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	2
3659547753	allusion	a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature	3
3659555044	analogy	a comparison of two or more like objects that suggest if they are alike in certain respects	4
3659562284	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds withing a line of poetry	5
3659566139	audience	the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing	6
3659570005	author	the writer of a book, article or other text	7
3659573456	autobiography	a form of nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her life	8
3659578152	ballad	is a poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited	9
3659582647	biography	the story of a person's life that is written by someone else	10
3659586095	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	11
3659603270	caesura	a pause or a sudden break in a line of poetry	12
3659607389	cause and effect	two events are related as cause and effect when one event brings about or causes the other	13
3659614748	characterization	all of the techniques that the writers use to create characters	14
3659618247	character trait	a character's personality; a trait is not a physical description of a character	15
3659626115	chronological order	the order in which events happen in time	16
3659630474	clarifying	the reader's process of pausing occasionally while reading to quickly review what he or she understands	17
3659638346	comparison	the process of identifying similarities	18
3659641417	concrete poetry	a type of poetry that uses its physical of visual form to present its message	19
3659660584	conflict	the tension of problem in the story; a struggle between opposing forces	20
3659668822	consonance	the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry	21
3659674155	context clues	hints or suggestions that may surround unfamiliar words or phrases and clarify their meaning	22
3659680468	contrast	the process of pointing out differences between things	23
3659683732	couplet	a rhymed pair of lines in a poem	24
3659687133	dialect	a form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people	25
3659691481	dialogue	the conversation between characters in a drama of narrative	26
3659696312	drawing conclusions	combining several pieces of information to make an inference	27
3659704309	enjambment	in poetry, the running over of a line or thought into the next verse	28
3659708769	epiphany	a sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or to act in a certain way	29
3659715039	epitaph	a short poem or verse written in memory of someone	30
3659717820	essay	a short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject	31
3659723384	evaluating	the process of judging the value of someone or something	32
3659728191	extended metaphor	a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things in great length	33
3659731711	fable	a brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature	34
3659739322	fantasy	a work of literature that contains at least one fantastic unreal element	35
3659743026	fiction	prose writing that tells an imaginary story	36
3659747723	figurative language	expressions that are not literally true	37
3659751806	folklore	traditions, customs and stories that are passed down within a culture	38
3659754989	foot	a unit of meter within a line of poetry	39
3665151755	foreshadowing	when the writer provides clues of hints that suggest or predict future event in the story	40
3665177778	free verse	poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm	41
3665184724	generalization	a broad statement about an entire group	42
3665189096	genre	a type or category of literature	43
3665194949	haiku	a traditional form of Japanese poetry, usually dealing with nature	44
3665205413	humor	the quality that provokes laughter or amusement	45
3665213162	hyperbole	a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect	46
3665221562	imagery	the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses	47
3665229850	inference	is a logical guess based on evidence in the text	48
3665235012	irony	a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists of happens	49
3665242670	literal meaning	the actual meaning of a word or phrase	50
3665245347	lyric	poetry: a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker	51
3665260448	meter	the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables	52
3665265635	metonymy	the metaphorical substitution of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase	53
3665281312	mood	a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers	54
3665285175	motif	a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature	55
3665301245	motivation	the reason why a character acts, feels or think in a	56
3665340266	myth	a traditional story that attempts to explain how the world was created of why the world is the way that it is	57
3665346008	narrative	any writing that tells a story	58
3665351174	novel	a work of fiction that is longer and more complex than a short story	59
3665360980	ode	a lyric poem of some length, usually of serious of meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure	60
3665371477	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning	61
3665377604	oral history	stories of people's lives related by word of mouth	62
3665382169	oxymoron	a form of figurative language combining contradictory words of ideas	63
3665390953	paradox	a statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true	64
3665398044	parallelism	the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance	65
3665409356	paraphrasing	the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form	66
3665415840	parody	a literary or artistic work that intimates the characteristic style of an author 's work for comic effect or ridicule	67
3665502934	personification	a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics	68
3665513384	persuasion	persuasive writing is meant to sway readers' feelings beliefs, or actions.	69
3667099538	plot	the sequence of related events that make up a story	70
3667108016	point of view	perspective from which a story is told	71
3667112756	predicting	the process of gathering information and combining it with the reader's own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story	72
3667120550	primary source	a first hand account of an event	73
3667122434	propaganda	text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view	74
3667132067	prose	the ordinary form of spoken and written language; that is, language that lacks the special features of poetry	75
3667150590	questioning	the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand characters and events	76
3667162433	realistic fiction	imaginative writing set in the real, modern world	77
3667171316	refrain	repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals; sometimes called chorus	78
3667178565	repetition	a technique in which sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis	79
3667182041	rhyme	repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work	80
3667192986	rhythm	refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	81
3667200456	sarcasm	the use of praise to mock someone or something; the use of mockery or verbal irony	82
3667211748	satire	a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society	83
3667219407	scanning	the process of searching through for a particular fact or piece of information	84
3667225248	scene	a section in a play presenting events that occur in one place at one time	85
3667232834	secondary source	a secondary source presents information compiled from or based on other sources	86
3667236655	sensory details	words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, feel, or smell what an author is describing	87
3667245323	sequence	the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented	88
3667249148	setting	the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs	89
3667255504	soliloquy	a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage	90
3667260988	speaker	the voice that talks to the reader in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction	91
3667268427	speech	a talk given in public	92
3667270311	stage directions	the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play	93
3667276096	stanza	a grouping of two or more lines within a poem	94
3667283299	stereotype	a broad generalization or an oversimplified view that disregards individual differences	95
3667291271	suspense	a feeling of growing tension and excitement	96
3667295255	symbolism	using something specific to stand for something else, especially an idea	97
3667323815	tall tale	a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events	98
3667329501	tone	the writer's attitude of feeling about his or her subject	99