AP Literature Vocabulary. Flashcards

2952626198	Allegory	A story or poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.	0
2952626199	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter in the beginning if words.	1
2952626200	Allusion	A passing or casual reference	2
2952626201	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses.	3
2952626202	Apostrophe	A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea.	4
2952626203	Approximate Rhyme	...	5
2952626204	Aside	Away from ones thoughts or consideration	6
2952626205	Assonance	Resemblance of sounds.	7
2952626206	Blank Verse	A poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter (lines of five feet)	8
2952626207	Cacophony	A discordance of sound	9
2952626208	Caesura	Any break, pause or interruption.	10
2952626209	Catharsis	The process of relating and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions	11
2952626210	Static Character.	A character that does not change from beginning of the story to the end	12
2952626211	Flat character.	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story.	13
2952626212	Dynamic character	One whose character changes in the course of the story	14
2952626213	Round character.	Fully developed character, writer reveals good and bad traits ad well as the background.	15
2952626214	Characterization	Process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.	16
2952626215	Climax	Turning point of a narrative work is it's greatest intensity.	17
2952626216	Comedy	Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches intended to make an audience laugh	18
2952626217	Conflict	A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.	19
2952626218	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	20
2952626219	Consonance	Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions	21
2952626220	Couplet	A pair of lines of metre in poetry	22
2952626221	Denotation	The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests	23
2952626222	Denouement	The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved	24
2952626223	Deus Ex Machina	An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play of novel.	25
2952626224	Didactic Writing	Intended or inclined to teach, preach, or instruct, often excessively.	26
2952626225	Direct presentation of character.	The method of characterization in which the author, by analysis, tells us directly what a character is like or has someone else on the story to do so.	27
2952626226	Double rhyme	A feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line.	28
2952626227	Dramatic exposition	...	29
2952626228	End rhyme	When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.	30
2952626229	Dramatic exposition	A literary device used to introduce important information about a story's setting, the characters and the initial conflict of the plot.	31
2952626230	End rhyme	When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same	32
2952626231	End-stopped line	Poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon	33
2952626232	English (Shakespearean) Sonnet	A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme	34
2952626233	Epiphany	A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being	35
2952626234	Euphony	The quality of being pleading to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.	36
2952626235	Extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a while poem	37
2952626236	Falling action	Parts of the story after the climax and before the very end	38
2952626237	Feminine Rhyme	A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	39
2952626238	Figurative Language	Saying something other than what is literally meant for effect	40
2952626239	Figure of Speech	A word or phrase used in a non literal sense to add rhetorical force to a spoken or written passage	41
2952626240	Foot	An anatomical structure.	42
2952626241	Form	The body or outward appearance of a person or animal.	43
2952626242	Free Verse	Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	44
2952626243	Hamartia	A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.	45
2952626244	Lamb	A young sheep	46
2952626245	Imagery	Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	47
2952626246	Indirect Presentation of Character	A writing technique related to characterization, the reader learns about the character through his words, his thoughts, words and actions.	48
2952626247	Internal Rhyme	Rhyme that occurs between words within a line verse	49
2952626516	Irony	The use of words to express something different from and often opposite of their literal meaning.	50
2952626517	Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern... followed by a sestet with a rhyme pattern...	51
2952626518	Masculine Rhyme	A rhyme made on a single stressed syllable	52
2952626519	Melodrama	A drama, such as a play, film, or television program characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts.	53
2952626520	Metaphor	One thing conceived as representing another	54
2952626521	Meter	A particular arrangement of words in poetry	55
2952626522	Metonymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	56
2952626523	Motivation	The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.	57
2952626524	Narrator	A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.	58
2952626525	Octave	A series or eight notes occupying the interval between two notes	59
2952626526	Onomatopoeia	The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	60
2952626527	Overstatement (hyperbole)	The action of expressing or stating something too strongly	61
2952626528	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	62
2952626529	Paradox	A statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises or self contradictory	63
2952626530	Paraphrase	Express the meaning of the writer using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity	64
2952626531	Personification	An imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.	65
2952626532	Plot	A narrative term defined as the events that make up a story	66
2952626533	POV (5)	A particular attitude or way of considering a matter	67
2952626534	Protagonist	The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.	68
2952626535	Quatrain	A type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines	69
2952626536	Rhythm	A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	70
2952626537	Rhyme	Of a word, syllable, or line have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.	71
2952626538	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song	72
2952626539	Rising Action	A series of related incidents builds to the point of the greatest interest.	73
2952626540	Sarcasm	The use of irony to mock or convey contempt	74
2952626541	Satire	The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity	75
2952626542	Scansion	The act of determining and graphically representing the metrical character of a line or verse	76
2952626543	Sestet	The second division of an Italian sonnet	77
2952626544	Setting	Where an event or story takes place.	78
2952626545	Simile	A comparison using like or as	79
2952626546	Soliloquy	An act of speakings ones thoughts aloud when by oneself	80
2952626547	Sonnet	A poetic form originated in Italy.	81
2952626548	Stanza	A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem	82
2952626549	Stream of Consciousness	A person's thought and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow.	83
2952626550	Syllabic Verse	A poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role.	84
2952626551	Symbol	Something used for or regarding as representing something else.	85
2952626552	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vise versa.	86
2952626553	Synesthesia	The production of a sense impression relating to one sense/part of the body by stimulation of another sense/part of the body.	87
2952626554	Tercet	Composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem.	88
2952626555	Terza Rima	A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme.	89
2952626556	Theme	A subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a persons thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic	90
2952626557	Tone	A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.	91
2952626558	Tragedy	A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair	92
2952626559	Truncation	To shorten by cutting off	93
2952626560	Understatement	The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	94
2952626561	Verse	Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm	95
2952626562	Villanelle	A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.	96
2954593684	Direct characterization	When the author gives you a vivid description of the character	97
2954659042	First person	Main character tells the story	98
2954659043	Second person	Writer tells the story in the "you" perspective	99
2954659044	Third person	Narrator isn't a character but uses he, she, or it.	100
2954659045	Third person ominescent	Narrator knows everything and still uses he,she or it	101
2954659046	Third person limited	Narrator knows everything about one character. Only as much as they know.	102