Lit Terms AP Literature Flashcards

6202789801	Dramatic Monologue	Composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener. Talks about himself as if someone else were present-reveals something about himself.	0
6202801688	Escape Literature	Literature written purely for entertainment, with little or no attempt to provide insights into the true nature of human life or behavior	1
6202805655	Etymology	The study of the roots of words and their meaning. Linguistic history and origins of a word	2
6202808737	Extended Figure	Figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem	3
6202813391	Fable	A brief story illustrating a moral truth most often associated with the ancient Greek writer Aesop	4
6202817671	Farce	A play that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick pratfalls or other physical humor; Humorous play; highly improbable plot and exaggerated characters	5
6202828072	Figurative Language/Speech	Words and expression that conform to a particular pattern or form, such as a metaphor, simile and parallelism; language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally	6
6202837989	Melodrama	A type of drama related to tragedy but featuring sensational incidents, emphasizing plot at the expense of characterization, relying on cruder conflicts and having a happy ending in which good triumphs over evil	7
6202847721	paradox	a statement of situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements	8
6202855980	Realism or Verisimilitude	the use of true lifelike or probable situations and concerns; representing an object as it exists in the real world	9
6202859511	rhetoric	the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere or intellectual vacuous verbal communication; discourse	10
6202864559	syntax	word choice. Way that words are put together to form clauses; study of the rules for formatting grammatical sent; systematic orderly arrangement	11
6202870485	Tall tale	a type of folk literature characterized by humorous exaggeration and outlandish plot detail	12
6202874918	tenor	the ideas conveyed in a metaphor or simile	13
6202877237	tone	the techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes the writers' or speaker's attitude toward his subject his audience or himself; the emotional coloring or emotional meaning of a work	14
6202885794	Tragedy	A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. The main character is usually dignified, courageous and often high ranking; downfall may be caused by a tragic flaw	15
6202895968	Vernacular	dialect; a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people	16