AP Literature Terms week 4 Flashcards

5522349550	Anecdote	A short narrative	0
5522349551	Anticlimax	Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.	1
5522349552	Antihero	A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of unsavory qualities.	2
5522349553	Setting	The physical location of a play, story, or novel, which often includes information about time and place. It can also provide backround info to a story.	3
5522349554	Point of View	The perspective from which the action of a novel (or narrative poem) is presented, whether the action is presented by one character or from different vantage points over the course of the novel.	4
5522349555	Understatement	The presentation of something being smaller, worse, or less important then it actually is .	5
5522349556	Oxymoron	A phrase composed of opposites, a contradiction.	6
5522349557	Parenthetical phrase	A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail.	7
5522349558	Structure	The way in which a work is arraigned or divided. Can also refer to the relationship between the parts of a work and the work as a whole.	8
5522349559	Satire	Exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor. It attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that, once exposed, the mistake will become less common.	9