AP Literature Terminology 10/10 Flashcards

7662933399	Objective Pov	Told as if from a characters. Only what is done and said is recorded	0
7662948561	Narrator	Person telling the story	1
7662954411	Nonlinear Structure	Story that jumps to different parts	2
7662966819	Stream of consciousness	Characters thoughts, and emotions are conveyed in a continuous, uninterrupted flow	3
7662976940	Unreliable narrator	Narrator who's credibility has been compromised	4
7662989795	Anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	5
7662993436	Dilemma	A situation in which you have to make a difficult choice	6
7662996110	Deus ex machine	"the god from the machine", appears at last moment and resolves loose ends of play	7
7663000289	Indeterminate	uncertain; indefinite	8
7663004401	Ending	the final or concluding part; conclusion	9
7663004402	Inversion	reversal of the regular word order in a sentence	10
7663007335	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	11
7663007336	Prologue	A speech, passage, or event coming before the main speech or event	12
7663014373	Red Herring	When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue	13
7663014374	Suspense	a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen	14
7663017712	Suspension of disbelief	The demand made that the reader accept the incidents recounted in the literary work	15
7663022828	Subplot	a secondary plot that occurs along with the main plot	16
7663026113	Fable	Short story that usually involves animals and teaches a moral	17
7663026114	Satire	using humor to expose something or ridicule someone	18
7663029664	Myth	a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomena	19
7663042511	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	20