AP Literature Terms V Flashcards

6719073265	refrain	a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	0
6719074528	requiem	a song or prayer for the dead	1
6719074529	rhapsody	an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	2
6719075694	rhetorical question	a question that suggests an answer and/or doesn't require an out-loud answer	3
6719077803	satire	exposes common character flaws to humor; attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behaviours will become less common--hypocrisy, vanity, greed	4
6719078757	simile	a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"	5
6719081844	soliloquy	a speech spoken by a character alone on stage; meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts (usually a problem the character is trying to work out)	6
6719084040	stanza	a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose	7
6719085723	stock characters	standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc.	8
6719088709	subjunctive mood	a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible; wishful thinking--if I were you, if he were honest	9
6719089611	summary	a simple retelling of what you've just read; covers more material than paraphrase, more general, includes all the facts	10
6719091145	suspension of disbelief	demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination	11
6719091925	symbolism	a device in literature where an object represents an idea	12
6719093160	technique	the methods, the tools, "how-you-do-it" ways of the author	13
6719094078	theme	the main idea of the overall work; the central idea; topic of discourse or discussion	14
6719094079	thesis	the main position of an argument; the central contention that will be supported	15
6719096139	tragic flaw	in tragedy, weakness of character in an other wise good/great individual that leads to his demise	16
6719097168	utopia	an idealized place; paradise	17
6719098841	zeugma	the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings--On the fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.	18