AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5110995546	Commercial Fiction	written and published primarily to make money. Often easy to read and appears on best seller lists, helps people escape their lives	0
5111014677	Literary Fiction	enables reader to understand life's difficulties and to emphasize with others. Provides a complex lasting aesthetic and intellectual pleasure	1
5127940373	Plot	The sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story	2
5127952274	Structure	arrangement of the plot's elements	3
5127962677	Conflict	A clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills	4
5127984310	Protagonist	The central character in a conflict	5
5128004641	Antagonist	Any force pitted up against the protagonist	6
5128020181	Suspense	Quality in the story that makes the reader ask "What will happen next" Increases interest	7
5128049528	Mystery	An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves explanation	8
5128070883	Dilemma	A position in which one must choose between two courses of action which are both undesirable	9
5128090244	Intermediate Ending	An ending in which no definite conclusion is reached	10
5128109706	Artistic Ending	The relevance of all plot points of a story	11
5128134143	Plot Manipulation	The inclusion of an unjustified plot turn that replies upon chance	12
5128165291	Duse ex Machina	The resolution of a story led by chance	13
5128189699	Coincidence	The chance occurrence of two events that have a peculiar correspondence	14
5128198526	Chance	Occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause	15
5128239037	Characterization	Description of a character	16
5128297557	Direct Presentation	Characterization through exposition or analysis	17
5128318784	Indirect Presentation	Characterization through a character's actions	18
5128333222	Dramatization	Human aspects of characters are exaggerated	19
5128358973	Flat Characters	A character having only one or two predominant characteristics	20
5128388384	Round Characters	Complex and many sided characters	21
5128420369	Stock Character	Stereotyped characters who are used so often in fiction that they are recognized at once	22
5128438187	Static Character	A character that remains the same throughout the story	23
5128456027	Dynamic/ Developing Character	A character that goes through a distinct personality change	24
5128493474	Epiphany	A moment of a spiritual insight into life or a character's circumstances. Moment of change in a dynamic character	25
5128554133	Theme	The controlling idea or general idea of a work of fiction	26
5128607724	Omnipresent Point of View	Told in the third person by a narrator whose knowledge is unlimited	27
5128617789	Third person limited point of view	Told in the third person but about one particular character	28
5128637592	First person point of view	one of the characters tells story from first person	29
5128651238	Objective/ Dramatic point of view	Narrator disappears into a roving sound camera , can go anywhere but not seen or heard	30
5128669206	Second person point of view	narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you.	31
5128688769	Symbol	Something that means more than it suggests	32
5128712369	Allegory	A story that has a second meaning	33
5128733773	Fantasy	A story that requires the suspension of reality	34
5128748355	Irony	A humor technique	35
5128754688	Verbal irony	A figure of speech in which the speaker says one thing but means the opposite	36
5128765277	Dramatic irony	Contrast with what the character says or does and what the reader knows to be true	37
5128781851	Sentimentality	Stories that try to elicit easy or unearned emotional resonances	38