AP Literature Terminology Oct. 17 Flashcards

7718636522	Invective	Highly critical language	0
7718639455	Monologue	A long speech by one actor in a play or movie	1
7718641063	Proverb	Stating a general truth or piece of advice	2
7718644064	Pun	A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word	3
7718646513	Sarcasm	The use of irony to mock	4
7718651366	Soliloquy	Speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers	5
7718655842	Slang	Type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal	6
7718661241	Understatement	The presentation of something as being smaller, than it actually is	7
7718663715	Idiom	A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words	8
7718668335	Irony	The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite	9
7718669992	Dramatic Irony	The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience	10
7718679509	Verbal Irony	Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another	11
7718688220	Situational Irony	Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended	12
7718692579	Epistolary novel	Written as a series of documents	13
7718699710	First Person pov	narrative is a point of view, where the story is narrated by one character at a time	14
7718702743	Flashback	a scene in a movie, novel, set in a time earlier than the main story.	15
7718709771	Flash forward	Takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature	16
7718715469	In medias res	into the middle of a narrative	17
7718718861	Limited	Restricted in size	18
7718722804	Omniscient Pov	Narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters	19
7718726971	Linear Structure	Appears under a variety of names depending on storage representation and its intended use	20