AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

8397132020	Fiction	Anything made up or shaped	0
8397132021	Narration	The recounting or telling of a sequence of events or actions	1
8397132022	Myths	A story that deals with the relationships of God's to humanity or with battles among heroes in time past	2
8397132023	Epic	Long narrative poem elevating character speech and action	3
8397132024	Fables	A brief story illustrating a moral truth	4
8397132025	Parables	Short stories that use everyday images to communicate religious messages.	5
8397132026	Romances	Length Spanish and French stories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	6
8397132027	novel (n)	a book that tells a story about people and things that are not real	7
8397132028	short story	a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel	8
8397132029	verisimilitude	(n.) the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable	9
8397132030	Donnée	Something given	10
8397132031	Characters	Persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature.	11
8397132032	organic unity	the working together of all the parts to make an inseparable whole	12
8397132033	Conflict	A struggle between two opposing forces	13
8397132034	protagonist (n)	the leading character in a play, novel, or story	14
8397132035	Plot	The sequence of events in a story	15
8397132036	Antagonists	Adversaries; opponents	16
8397132037	structures	The way a story is put together	17
8397132038	Idea	The result of general and abstract thinking	18
8397132039	Themes	An exploration of an idea	19
8397132040	Narration	the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse	20
8397132041	issue	an important question that is in dispute and must be settled	21
8397132042	description (n)	a piece of writing or speech that gives details about what someone or something is like	22
8397132043	Metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	23
8397132044	Symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea.	24
8397132045	Dialogue	Communication between two or more people	25
8397132046	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	26
8397132047	point of view	the speaker's perspective and how they feel about what they're writing.	27
8397132048	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	28
8397132049	Speaker	The voice that talks to the reader	29
8397132050	second person point of view	the narrator addresses the reader directly using the pronoun "you"	30
8397132051	limited point of view	the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character	31
8397132052	omniscient point of view	the narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all	32
8397132053	dramatic point of view	the narrator is not a character and can only report what is seen and heard	33
8397132054	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	34
8397132055	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	35
8397132056	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	36
8397132057	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	37
8397132058	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	38
8397132059	Cultural	A symbol that is recognized and shared as a result of a common political social and cultural heritage	39
8397132060	Contextual	Symbol specific to the story	40
8397132061	Allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	41
8397132062	Commentary	(n.) a series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion	42
8397132063	major mover	participant in work's action who causes things to happen or who is the subject of major events	43
8397132064	reliable narrator	a believable, trustworthy commentator on events and characters in a story	44
8397132065	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	45
8397132066	authorial voice	the voice or speaker used by authors when seemingly speaking for themselves	46
8397132067	Trait	Specific characteristic of an individual	47
8397132068	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	48
8397132069	Hero	an inspiring character who demonstrates honor and integrity and does noble deeds	49
8397132070	static character	A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end	50
8397132071	stock character	the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history	51
8397132072	Representative	A flat character with the qualities of all other members of a group	52
8397132073	stereotype character	A flat character who possesses expected traits of a group rather than being an individual	53
8397132074	poems	pieces of writing that often include rhythm and rhyme	54
8397132075	narrative ballad	a poem in ballad measure telling a story and also containing dramatic speeches	55
8397132076	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	56
8397132077	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	57
8397132078	specific language	words that narrow what is understood from a general category to a particular item or group within it	58
8397132079	General Language	Signifies broad classes of persons, objects, and phenomena	59
8397132080	concrete diction	specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions.	60
8397132081	abstract diction	words that express general ideas or concepts	61
8397132082	high diction	big words; formal language	62
8397132083	neutral diction	uses standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions.	63
8397132084	informal diction	language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech	64
8397132085	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.	65
8397132086	Dialects	variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines	66
8397132087	slang (n)	informal words and expressions that are more common in spoken language	67
8397132088	jargon	vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people	68
8397132089	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	69
8397132090	rhetorical	relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression	70
8397132091	Parallelism	Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other	71
8397132092	Repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	72
8397132093	antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	73
8397132094	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.	74
8397132095	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	75
8397132096	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	76
8397132097	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	77
8397132098	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	78
8397132099	Persona	An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.	79
8397132100	listener	the person who receives the speaker's message	80
8397132101	dramatic monologue	a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener	81
8397132102	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	82
8397132103	visual images	a visual representation that preserves spatial and form information	83
8397132104	gustatory images	references to impressions of taste	84
8397132105	tactile images	images of touch and texture	85
8397132106	Kinesthetic	Relates to interaction with people and objects in real space.	86
8397132107	kinetic	pertaining to motion	87
8397209079	Enclosing setting	Organizational application of place, time, and object	88
8397209080	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	89