AP Spanish Literature Prep Flashcards

7164264145	ambiente	The emotional condition created by a work. Environment	0
7164264146	drama	General intermediate stage between comedy and tragedy. Drama	1
7164264147	figura retórica	Word or phrase that creates different images based in meaning, diction or ideas that convey the words. Figure of speech	2
7164264148	género	Term used to distinguish different forms of literary works (genre)	3
7164264149	héroe	The person or character who performs the heroic action (not always protagonist or main character). Hero	4
7164264150	imagen	Literal or mental representation of something imagined or real, so the reader can picture it. Image	5
7164264151	narrativa	Literary Genre formed by the story. Narrative	6
7164264152	personaje	A human real, fictional or imagined in the literary work. Character	7
7164264153	poesía	Literary genre as embodied in a poem and is subject to measurement or cadence. Poem	8
7164264154	protagonista	Main Character of the action in a literary work. Protagonist	9
7164264155	público	Individual or group of individuals receiving a message through a literary work. Audience	10
7164264156	suspenso	The eagerness to develop an action or event Expectation in a literary work in which the outcome is delayed. Suspense	11
7164264157	el tema	The argument central idea of a work or a part of a literary work. Theme	12
7164264158	autor	The person who writes a literary work. Author	13
7164264159	el cuento	Literary work that chronicles both extensive fiction and fictional events as real. Story	14
7164264160	narrador	The voice that narrates the action. Narrator	15
7164264161	novela	Narrative fiction of variable length written in prose. Novel	16
7164264162	prosa	Natural language expression. Prose	17
7164264163	estrofa	The set of verses that are grouped in a certain order and forming the structure of a poetic work. Stanza	18
7164264164	métrica	The way to build the verses according to the units metrics are: number of metric syllables, verse, stanza and poem. Metrics	19
7164264165	el poema	Literary composition written in verse belonging to the genre of poetry. Poem	20
7164264166	el/la poeta	Person who writes poems. Poet	21
7164264167	rima	Acoustic partial or full concurrence of vowels and consonants located from the last stressed vowel between two or more lines. Rhyme	22
7164264168	rima asonante	Imperfect rhyme, repeating only vowels from the stressed vowel. Assonance	23
7164264169	rima consonante	Perfect rhyme, Consonant rhyme	24
7164264170	verso	Word or set of words subject to size and pace, or just as in collective sense, is opposed to prose. Verse	25
7164264171	la voz poética	Literary work where the storyteller or poet, not necessarily the author. Poetic Voice	26
7164264172	el ritmo	The accompanied order in the succession of words of a work. Rhythm	27
7164264173	acto	Each of the parts that a play is divided. Act	28
7164264174	comedia	Generally refers to a play, and more specifically a drama with a happy ending. Comedy	29
7164264175	diálogo	A conversation between two or more characters in a entire work or part of one. Dialouge	30
7164264176	escena	A part in which the act is divided and in which the same characters are present. Scene	31
7164264177	escenario	Space where a play is shown. It may be natural or built and can add to the ambiance of the work. Stage	32
7164264178	monólogo	A work, or any part of one, in which the character speaks aloud appearing alone on stage expressing their thoughts. Monologue	33
7164264179	teatro	Place where a play before spectators or participants is performed, also the drama of a culture, people, or author. Theater	34
7164264180	tragedia	Play characterized by characters governed by the passions, and whose actions lead to a catastrophic end. Tradegy	35
7164264181	aliteración	Repetition of sounds within words or in next to produce an aural effect words. Alliteration	36
7164264182	hipérbole	Wild exaggeration of facts, situations, characteristics, attitudes, etc., to emphasize or ridicule. Hyperbole	37
7164264183	metáfora	Comparison between two essentially distinct things that may have something in common. Metaphor	38
7164264184	onomatopeya	Word that imitates or suggests the sound of what the author describes. Onomatopoeia	39
7164264185	personificación	Attribution of human qualities to beings inanimate or irrational. Personification	40
7164264186	símil	Comparison between two things or ideas using like or as. Simile	41
7164264187	ambigüedad	A statement containing more than one meaning, and that can be interpreted in different ways. Ambiguity	42
7164264188	analogía	Comparison between two or more similar objects which suggests that if they are similar in certain respects, they are in another. Analogy	43
7164264189	antagonista	Character or force in a work that deceives, frustrates or acts against the protagonist. Antagonist	44
7164264190	antihéroe	Person who performs the functions of traditional hero but differs in appearance and values. Its characteristics are contrary to those of a hero. Antihero	45
7164264191	arquetipo	symbol or universal model that exemplifies its category. Archetype	46
7164264192	atmósfera	The emotional condition created by a work; refers to the general feeling that the reader must perceive from the text. Atmosphere	47
7164264193	carpe diem	Latin for seize the day. Carpe diem	48
7164264194	desenlace	Appears in the plot, after climax; is where you meet the conflicts and the loose ends and part of the plot are attached. Resolution	49
7164264195	fábula	A short, fictional Story, in prose or verse, with didactic intention in which may involve animal characters, and people. Fable	50
7164264196	In medias res	literary Technique in which the narrative starts in the middle of the action. (Ay de mi Alhama)	51
7164264197	ironía	An unexpected event that is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. Irony	52
7164264198	memento mori	Generally an artistic or literary theme whose purpose is to remind people of their mortality. Recuerda que eres mortal	53
7164264199	símbolo	Person, place, object or action that represents something tangible, abstract, or universal. Symbol	54
7164264200	el tono	Apparent attitude or emotional state of the narrative voice of the work. Tone	55
7164264201	la trama	Sequence of events in a story that forms the structure of the conflict. Plot	56
7164264202	crónica	Historical prose that is studied as a narrative genre. It consists of a historical narrative in which the chronological order is observed from different periods. Chronicle	57
7164264203	flashback	Narrative technique that allows the writer to make a retrospect or temporary jump back to past events in order to provide a background. Flashback	58
7164264204	fluir de conciencia	Narration that seeks to capture the continuous course of the thought process of a character; also known as interior monologue. Flow awareness	59
7164264205	narrador omnisciente	Narrator knows everything that happens and is narrated in the third person narrative. Omniscient narrator	60
7164264206	narrador limitado o narrativa en primera persona	The narrator can participate as a character witness or observe the action and is in first person. First person narrative	61
7164264207	prefiguración	The suggestion or indication of future events or even the resolution in a story. Prefiguration	62
7164264208	punto de vista o perspectiva	Angle from which the narrator tells a story; serves to transmit the events of a story and, occasionally, feelings and motives of characters. Point of view	63
7164264209	heptasílabo	Verse seven metric syllables. Not a very common verse of poetry in Castilian.	64
7164264210	octosílabo	Verse of eight metric syllables; frequent verse in romance and learned poetry in Hispanic literature.	65
7164264211	endecasílabo	Metric verse of eleven syllables; frequent verse especially in learned poetry, as in the sonnet of Renaissance and Baroque poets.	66
7164264212	alejandrino	Verse of French origin; metric verse of fourteen syllables divided into two hemistiches of seven syllables. It also appears in modern poetry.	67
7164264213	arte menor	Verses of eight metric syllables or less.	68
7164264214	arte mayor	Verses of more than eight metric syllables.	69
7164264215	encabalgamiento	Continuation of an idea or phrase in the following verse to complete the meaning; this accelerates the pace of the verses.	70
7164264216	estribillo	Verse or verses that are repeated at intervals in a poem, often at the end of each stanza, which usually comprise the idea principal. Create a rhythmic and emphatic effect. Chorus	71
7164264217	lírica	Genre to which the works, usually in verse, express feelings of the author and intend to produce similar sentiments in the reader. Lyric poem	72
7164264218	poema épico	Poem that tells the exploits of historical or legendary heroes. Epic poem	73
7164264219	redondilla	Quatrain of minor art, generally octosyllabic, which is abba rhyme. Used in golden age and today.	74
7164264220	romance	Narrative or non-narrative lyrics of strophic verse, octosyllabic in any number, with verses that rhyme in pairs.	75
7164264221	sinalefa	Metric element when the final vowel of a word meets the initial vowel of the following and is counted as one syllable.	76
7164264222	soneto	Poem of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines of eleven syllables divided into two quartets and two triplets; Scheme more common is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD. Sonnet	77
7164264223	verso agudo	Verse with the final word accented on the last syllable; (adds a syllable to the verse when counting)	78
7164264224	verso esdrújulo	Verse where the final word has an emphasis on the third to last vowel (subtracts one syllable from the verse when counting)	79
7164264225	verso llano	Verse with final word accented on the second to last syllable; the syllabic count is unchanged. It is the most common verse in the Castilian metric	80
7164264226	acción dramática	Expression of movements occurring in the internal and external levels of the characters . Dramatic action	81
7164264227	exposición	Part of the plot which informs about the characters, antecedents or causes of action.	82
7164264228	nudo o clímax	Highlight in a work, usually the time of more excitement or tension that complicates the plot. Climax	83
7164264229	acotaciones	Notes included in the play at the beginning of the work or brackets along it, to advise and explain everything about the action: gestures, movements of the characters, voice modulation, decorations, sound effects, etc. Dimensions	84
7164264230	aparte	Theater technique in which a character makes a comment heard by the audience, not by the other characters, used to communicate or reveal their ideas and inner thoughts. Aside	85
7164264231	dramaturgo	Author of dramatic plays. In the Golden Age they were called "ingenio" or "poeta".	86
7164264232	teatro del absurdo	Drama based on a senseless situation, in which the characters face situations that show the folly of life in a dehumanized world.	87
7164264233	anáfora	Repeating words in a succession of verses or sentences me quieres blanca me quieres pura me quieres casta	88
7164264234	antítesis	Juxtaposition of a word, phrase or idea to another significance contrary.	89
7164264235	apóstrofe	Appeal in which the speaker addresses bystanders or absent, animate beings or inanimate objects O,.... Dios,...	90
7164264236	circunlocución o perífrasis	Indirectly alluding to something without saying precisely.	91
7164264237	elipsis	Leaving out the elements of a phrase or idea, which forces the reader to infer. Ellipsis (...)	92
7164264238	enumeración	Figure naming different parts of a concept or general thought.	93
7164264239	eufemismo	Word or phrase used in place of another because the first is distasteful, offensive or bad sounding. Euphemism	94
7164264240	gradación	Series of words or concepts in ascending scale or descending; also known for climax.	95
7164264241	hipérbaton	Alteration of the syntactic normal order of words.	96
7164264242	Barroco	Spanish cultural movement (1580-1700) characterized by its complexity and extravagant ornamentation, whose purpose was to astonish and encourage introspection. Pessimistic.	97
7164264243	Boom	In Spanish-American literature, a time of great boom: a creation of narrative works that began in 1940. Production is varied and many of its authors created international best sellers and translated into multiple languages	98
7164264244	Colonial	It refers to literature produced during the time of Spanish colonization on American soil.	99
7164264245	Edad Media (medioevo)	Period between the 5th and 15th centuries. In Spain it is considered that the Middle Ages closes with the arrival of Columbus to America (1492: la reconquista)	100
7164264246	Generación del 98	Group of Spanish novelists, poets, essayists and philosophers, active during and after the War of Cuba (1898), which was restored to Spain to an intellectual and literary prominence. This was of great importance in defining Spain as a cultural and historic entity. Unamuno, crisis, enigma de la vida	101
7164264247	libro de caballerías	Very popular genre in prose in Spain mid-sixteenth century, celebrating the exploits of the knights in which they fiercely oppose masochism inspired by courteous love.	102
7164264248	modernismo	Hispanic literary movement whose major exponent is Ruben Dario and melts three French movements: parnasianismo (French poetic movement of the late nineteenth century characterized by its inclination towards a more serene poetry), symbolism and romance. It employs a rich verbal musicality to express passions, visions, inner rhythms and harmonies.	103
7164264249	naturalismo	Literary movement of the mid-nineteenth century that portrays humans and their circumstances with scientific objectivity.- includes "determinismo"	104
7164264250	novela picaresca	Narrative prose or genre of pseudo-autobiography character; very characteristic of Spanish literature. The protagonist, a rogue of low social rank or a descendant of marginalized parents or criminals, aims to improve their lot by using their cunning or cheating.	105
7164264251	pícaro	Character of low condition, sly, witty and unsavory that stars in a picaresque novel "novela picaresca". Usually an orphan.	106
7164264252	realismo	Objective way of presenting things without minimization or exaggeration.	107
7164264253	realismo mágico	Hispanic literary movement that emerged mid-twentieth century, characterized by the introduction of these elements: fantastic-dreams, superstition, myths, and magic-immersed in a realistic narrative.	108
7164264254	Renacimiento	Era that began in the mid-fifteenth century and in which awakens in the West a strong enthusiasm for the Greek and Latin classical antiquity and the power of human creation/ intelligence. Renaissance	109
7164264255	romanticismo	Literary school of the first half of the nineteenth century; overly individualistic, ignores the rules or precepts held for the classics.	110
7164264256	Siglo de Oro	Time when literature, arts and culture reach their peak. Golden Age (Renacimiento + Barroco)	111
7164264257	alegoría	Story that illustrates a moral idea or whose objects have symbolic meanings.	112
7164264258	apología	Speech in defense or praise of a person or an ideology.	113
7164264259	cromatismo o simbolismo cromático	Using a set or range of colors to represent ideas and feelings.	114
7164264260	desdoblamiento	Formation of two or more things for separation of components that are usually together; in a character, expression of two or more personalities. (Borges y yo)	115
7164264261	leitmotiv	Repeating a word, phrase, situation or notion. Recurring motif in a play.	116
7164264262	meta- (e.g. metaficción, metateatro,metacrítica)	Meta-fiction in a fictional account, is that the theme of the story is the art of storytelling, particularly when the content breaks the illusion of reality in a play.	117
7164264263	parodia	Imitation of a work in ridicule.	118
7164264264	sátira	Literary work whose purpose is to ridicule the subject; although it may be funny, its primary purpose is to provoke rejection.	119
7164264265	narrativa epistolar	Narrative in the form of letters written by one or several characters; allows to present multiple viewpoints and dispense omniscient narration.	120
7164264266	narrador fidedigno	Narrator worthy of trust, whose understanding of characters or actions of narrative accredits to tell the facts. are conforms to the standards established by the implied author.	121
7164264267	narrador no fidedigno	Narrator who misunderstands motives or actions of characters or does not perceive the connection between the facts the story, creating a discrepancy between the implied author and the narrator reliable because it provides inconsistent information.	122
7164264268	narrador testigo	Narrator does not participate in the action but relates the events firsthand and comments.	123
7164264269	parábola	Teaching short story whose actions cover or apply to another situation. Parable	124
7164264270	cesura	Pausing in a verse that may affect the syllable count. Caesura	125
7164264271	diéresis	Pronunciation in two different vowel syllables normally form diphthong. vïola ( vi / o / la)	126
7164264272	hemistiquio	Each of the separate parts of a verse, determined a break. Hemistich	127
7164264273	hiato	Separation or elision. Separation of a "sinalefa"	128
7164264274	sinéresis	Union of two adjacent vowels within a word formed a hiatus. Reduce the metric syllable count. ex: caos	129
7164264275	verso blanco o suelto	Verse has no rhyme or assonance with another verse. Appears in poems with a regular rhyme scheme.	130
7164264276	verso libre	Verse does not rhyme with another verse or have metrical pattern.	131
7164264277	polifonía	Plurality or set of voices that creates a literary text and corresponds to multiple independent and distinct consciousnesses (dialogue within a poem, for example)	132
7164264278	polimetría	Using different metrical forms in one poem. Refers to the use of various stanzas in a unitary text.	133
7164264279	silva	Non-strophic verse poem that combines seven and eleven syllables, linked by rhyme and free verse.	134
7164264280	anagnórisis	Time the character discovers a material fact or understand something of himself, human nature or status.	135
7164264281	catarsis	Feeling purification or release elicited by some works or experiences.	136
7164264282	falla trágica	Fatal error protagonist of a work from which derives a irreparable damage. Tragic flaw	137
7164264283	ironía dramática	Circumstance in which the reader or viewer knows something unknown to a character and know or suspect what will happen before the character knows. Dramatic irony	138
7164264284	pathos	In Greek tragedy and in others it is affection tipping the viewer into the tragic figure; leads to catharsis, through which the viewer identifies with the character.	139
7164264285	tres unidades	Theatrical rule: the work only has a main action (unity of action) that this action does not last more than a day (unit time) and all the action takes place in one place (unity of place).	140
7164264286	asíndeton	Omission of conjunctions or words to evoke vividness or energy.	141
7164264287	cacofonía	Using words that combine unpleasant, harsh sounds	142
7164264288	epíteto	Word or phrase before or after the name, is used to characterize the character.	143
7164264289	metonimia	One type of metaphor in which the image is associated with the represented, but not part of it; metonimia makes the recipient message make the association.	144
7164264290	paradoja	Juxtaposition of two contradictory concepts that express a truth.	145
7164264291	polisíndeton	Repetition of conjunctions to lengthen the sentence or make a solemn expression.	146
7164264292	sinécdoque	Type metaphor that uses a portion or quality of an physical object to represent the entire object.	147
7164264293	sinestesia	Description of a feeling or image by means of sensations, perceived by different sensory organs, for example, sight and smell.	148
7164264294	retruécano	play on words; inversion of the terms of a term or proposition in another subsequent to the latter with the above shock. ex: El momento es eterno. La eternidad momentánea.	149
7164264295	conceptismo	Literary movement linked to the Spanish Baroque is characterized by the use of gimmicky associations, puns, paradoxes, acuity of thought and concise expression.	150
7164264296	culteranismo	Spanish literary style of the late sixteenth century and during the seventeenth century, characterized by the excessive wealth of striking metaphors, overuse of cultism and syntactic complexity.	151
7164264297	costumbrismo	Custom-based portrait of typical regional or national customs or in literary and artistic works.	152
7164264298	existencialismo	Philosophical movement that founded the knowledge of all reality on the experience of existence. Some subjects are so absurd, freedom from the need to choose, anguish and death, or nothing.	153
7164264299	neoclasicismo	Eighteenth-century literary movement that rejects the Baroque and proposes a return to classical and universal, simple tasteful art and teaching.	154
7164264300	postmodernismo	Twentieth century cultural movement that opposes the functionalism and modern rationalism.	155
7164264301	surrealismo	Literary and artistic movement that tried to overcome impulse with psychic automatism imaginary and irrationality: dreams and hallucinations.	156
7164264302	vanguardia	Artistic movement that emerged around the First War World and advocated experimentation with new literary techniques. Among its manifestations are surrealism and negritude.	157
7164264303	dirigir (a)	directed towards	158
7164264304	resaltar	emphasize	159
7164264305	alcanzar	reach/ achieve/ be enough	160
7164264306	destacar	stress/ emphasize	161
7164264307	rumbo	direction	162
7164264308	insondable	unfathomable	163
7164264309	verosímil	truthful/ accurate	164
7164264310	lograr	achieve	165
7164264311	gozar	enjoy	166
7164264312	aprovechar	take advantage of	167
7164264313	acontecimientos	events	168
7164264314	cotidiano	daily/ habitual	169
7164264315	caduco	old-fashioned	170
7164264316	detalles	details	171
7164264317	hallar	discover / find	172
7164264318	polémico	controversial	173
7164264319	fantasmagórico	phantasmagorical	174
7164264320	promulgar	publish	175
7164264321	muchedumbre	crowds/ masses	176
7164264322	el entorno	the surroundings	177
7164264323	ocultar	hide	178
7164264324	añorar	yearn for	179
7164264325	quejarse	to complain	180
7164264326	castigar	to punish	181
7164264327	sangre	blood	182
7164264328	hazañas	heroic actions	183
7164264329	sabiduría	knowledge/ wisdom	184
7164264330	tener lugar	takes place	185
7164264331	trata de	talks about	186
7164264332	según	according to	187
7164264333	el lector	the reader	188
7164264334	padecer	to suffer	189
7164264335	abarcar	to cover/ to include	190
7164264336	consuelo	consolation	191
7164264337	reverente	respect/ reverence	192
7164264338	la autoría	authorship	193
7164264339	venganza	vengeance	194
7164264340	"tan largo me lo fías"	Don Juan : carpe diem	195