AP Literature - Literary Terms Flashcards

7347481256	First Person Narration	It is a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself.	0
7347482605	Third Person Narration	It is a narration that is told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we": "he did that, they did something else.	1
7347489823	Omniscient	The narrator has access to all the actions and thoughts of all characters.	2
7347534548	Limited Omniscient	The narrator has a restricted view of events and doesn't "know" the whole story.	3
7347536837	Free Indirect Discourse	It is a kind of third person narration that uses a combined feature of a direct and indirect speech.	4
7347538490	Objective Narration	The narrator is an observer and describes or interprets thoughts, feelings, motivations, of the characters.	5
7347541114	Unreliable Narration	The narrator only speaks to his/her experience within it.	6
7347543009	Protagonist	A central character in any work of literature.	7
7347545309	Hero/Heroine	A protagonist who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities.	8
7347546029	Antihero	A protagonist or other notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities.	9
7347554197	Antagonist	A character which stands in opposition to the protagonist.	10
7347555309	Foil	A character that is intended to highlight attributes in another character through opposing traits.	11
7347556397	Stock Character	A character that is instantly recognizable to readers because it pops up everywhere.	12
7347558630	Static character	A character who does not change, develop, or grow throughout the action of a book, movie, or play.	13
7347559811	Dynamic Character	A character who changes develops and grows throughout the action of a book, movie, or play.	14
7347563134	Flat Character	A character with only one or two major traits.	15
7347563933	Round Character	A character with many traits; a fully-developed character.	16
7347564695	Direct Characterization	It characterizes a character by simply telling the reader what that character is like.	17
7347566712	Indirect characterization	It reveals information about the character through his or her thoughts and actions.	18
7347568110	Allegory	It is a work that functions on a symbolic level.	19
7347568852	Bildungsroman	It is a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.	20
7347569702	Comedy	It deals with amusing and satirical tone, mostly having a cheerful ending.	21
7347570279	Epic	It is a lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero.	22
7347571189	Farce	It is a type of a comedy that makes the use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience.	23
7347571721	Free verse poetry	It has no defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme.	24
7347572610	Lyric poetry	It is a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought.	25
7347573259	Parody	A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.	26
7347575912	Satire	A mode of writing based on ridicule, which criticizes the foibles and follies of society without necessarily offering a solution.	27
7347577314	Romance	It is all about courtly love and chivalry.	28
7347578002	Stream-of- consciousness	It is a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.	29
7347578702	Tragedy	It deals with a sorrowful or terrible event encountered or caused by a heroic individual.	30
7347579366	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."	31
7347580918	Anaphora	It is the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect.	32
7347580919	Antithesis	It is the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.	33
7347582083	Apostrophe	It is the direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she/it can reply.	34
7347582084	Assonance	It takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but starts with different consonant sounds.	35
7347584286	Cliché	It refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty.	36
7347584986	Consonance	It refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.	37
7347585776	Epithet	It is a word of phrase adding a character to a person's name.	38
7347585777	Hyperbole	Extreme exaggeration.	39
7347586388	Understatement	The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.	40
7347587203	Enjambment	A technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning.	41
7347587657	Caesura	A break or pause in a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning.	42
7347588680	Simile	An indirect comparison that uses the word, "like" or "as" to link the differing items in the comparison. "Your eyes are like stars" is an example.	43
7347589909	Metaphor	A direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars" is an example.	44
7347594451	Conceit metaphor	It is a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	45
7347594452	Dead metaphor	It is a figure of speech that has lost its force and imaginative effectiveness through frequent use.	46
7347595279	Extended metaphor	It refers to a comparison between two, unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.	47
7347595937	Mixed metaphor	It is a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect.	48
7347597357	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea. ("The pen is mightier than the sword.")	49
7347598727	Synecdoche	A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole.	50
7347599235	Paradox	A set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects an underlying truth. For example, in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, the Friar says to Hero, "Come, Lady, die to live."	51
7347599958	Oxymoron	An image of contradictory terms (bittersweet, pretty ugly, giant economy size).	52
7347600745	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like the sound they represent (hiss, gurgle, bang).	53
7347601670	Synesthesia	It is when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another.	54
7347602358	Connotation	The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.	55
7347602903	Denotation	The literal or dictionary meaning of a word.	56
7347604188	Run-on Sentence	It is a combination of two independent clauses, joined together without a conjunction or punctuation mark.	57
7347605255	Comma Splice	It is known as a grammatical error or a misuse of commas.	58
7347605842	Sentence fragments	A groups of word that look like sentences but aren't.	59
7347606601	Allusion	A reference contained in a work.	60
7347607713	Juxtaposition	It is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	61
7347608843	Personification	The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. (Wordsworth personifies "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon" in the poem "London, 1802.")	62
7347609632	Anthropomorphism	It is the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	63
7347610213	Imagery	The total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature.	64
7347610897	Visual imagery	It is an imagery that evokes a sight image.	65
7347611551	Auditory imagery	It is an imagery that evokes images of sound.	66
7347612672	Kinesthetic imagery	It is an imagery that evokes a sense of movement or body position.	67
7347612673	Olfactory imagery	It is an imagery that evokes a sense of smell.	68
7347613714	Gustatory imagery	It is an imagery that evokes a sense of taste or flavor.	69
7347617504	Irony	An unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. It involves dialogue and situation, and it can be intentional or unplanned.	70
7347618248	Situational irony	It is an irony that involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what happens.	71
7347619076	Verbal irony	It is an irony with the use of words to mean something different from what a person says.	72
7347619801	Dramatic irony	It is an irony that occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of.	73
7347620692	Foreshadowing	Hints of future events in a literary work.	74
7347620693	Mood	It is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.	75
7347622085	Motif	The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters.	76
7347623265	Symbol	Something in a literary work that stands for something else. (Plato has the light of the sun symbolize truth in "The Allegory of the Cave.")	77
7347624328	Contextual symbol	It can be a symbol for a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while.	78
7347624943	Cultural symbol	It is a symbol for a physical manifestation that signifies the ideology of a particular culture or that merely has to mean within a culture.	79
7347624944	Theme	The underlying ideas that the author illustrates through characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc.	80
7347625811	Thesis	It is the main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim.	81
7347626481	Tone	The author's attitude toward his subject.	82