AP Literature Terminology - Set 4 Flashcards

3621470339	Motif	An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.	0
3621470340	Myth	A legendary or a traditional story that usually concerns an event, or a hero, with or without using factual or real explanations, particularly one concerning with demigods or deities, and describes some rites, practices and natural phenomenon	1
3621470341	Narrator	A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem	2
3621470342	Naturalism	A literary genre that started as a literary movement in late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater and art. It is a type of extreme realism	3
3621470343	Novel	A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism	4
3621470344	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	5
3621486749	Oxymoron (Example)	"I find no peace, and all my war is done I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;" -Sir Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch's 134th sonnet	6
3621470345	Parable	A figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end	7
3621470346	Parallelism	The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter	8
3621507019	Parralelism (Example)	"To err is human; to forgive divine." -"An Essay on Ctiticism", by Alexander Pope	9
3621470347	Parody	An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect	10
3621470348	Pathos	A quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow	11
3621470349	Pedantic	Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning	12
3621470350	Plagiarism	The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own	13
3621470351	Plot	A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of a story	14
3621470352	Plot Line	The course or main features of a narrative such as the plot of a play, novel, or movie	15
3621470353	Poetic Justice	An ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate	16
3621470354	Poetry	A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm	17
3621470355	Alliteration	A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series	18
3621470356	Assonance	Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds	19
3621470357	Ballad	A type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in the ancient France	20
3621470358	Blank Verse	A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter	21
3621470359	Canto	One of the sections into which certain long poems are divided.	22
3621470360	Caesura	A break between words within a metrical foot; a pause near the middle of the line; any interruption or break	23
3621470361	Connosance	Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	24
3621470362	Elegy	A form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased	25