AP Literature Terms - Quiz #6 Flashcards

Katakana test

8390004174	situational irony	an occurence that is contrary to what is expected	0
8390007905	soliloquy	a dramatic convention that allows a charcter alone on stage to speak his or her thoughts aloud	1
8390012161	sonnet	a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme	2
8390026051	stereotype	a conventional patter, plot, or setting that possesses little or no individuality, but that they may be used for a purpose	3
8390032278	stream of consciousness	the reording or re-creation of a chracter's flow of thought	4
8390036278	style	the distinctive handling og language by author	5
8390042188	symbol	a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself	6
8390047404	synechdoche	figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole	7
8390049697	synesthesia	the description of one sense using another sense	8
8390052355	syntax	the arrangement of words within a sentence	9
8390055609	theme	the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work	10
8390057464	tone	the author's attitude toward his or her subject matter and towards the audience	11
8390061890	understatement	figure of speech that says less than one means	12
8390064314	verbal irony	the intended meaning of a statement or work is different from what the statement or work literally says	13
8390069770	verisimilitude	a sense of truth and realness to a work	14
8390071754	villanelle	poetic form of five tercets and a final quatrain (19 lines)	15
8390090155	simile	a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'lie' or 'as'	16