AP Literature Comedy - genre Flashcards

6018105272	Comedy	Type of drama opposed to tragedy, emphasizes human limitation	0
6018116276	denotation and connotation	literal definition and emotional content	1
6018123369	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds	2
6018136424	couplet	a stanza of two lines	3
6018141329	climax	event in the plot where the conflict is most directly addressed	4
6018150729	Deus ex machina	Resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence	5
6018157806	Diction	authors choice of words	6
6018160992	Drama	is designed to be performed	7
6018168152	drama of the absurd	allied with comedy, radically non realistic in both content and presentation	8
6018176598	Editorializing	departs from narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or fell about story or characters	9
6018185900	Exposition	first section of the plot	10
6018188754	falling action	after climax containing events caused by the climax and contributing to the resolution	11
6018197825	farce	drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot	12
6018208695	Figurative language	saying one thing and meaning something else	13
6018214972	Figure of speech	states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect	14
6018222325	flashback	reference to an event which took place prior too the beginning of a story or play	15
6018230229	Foil	character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison	16
6018236113	foreshadowing	method to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come	17
6018241172	Free Verse	Rhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern	18
6018250088	Genre	a literary type or form	19