Ap literature Flashcards

7376227517	Act	Division of a play	0
7376227518	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	1
7376227519	Climax	the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.	2
7376227520	epilogue	short concluding section in a literary work	3
7376227521	Farce	a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings intended to make the audience laugh	4
7376227522	Hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence	5
7376227523	Protagonist	the main character in a literary work	6
7376227524	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the internist thoughts of the main character	7
7376227525	Villain	an evil or wicked person or character, especially in a story or play	8
7376227526	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	9
7376227527	dialogue	Conversation between two or more characters	10
7376227528	Invective	abusive language usually from a poet	11
7376227529	Mood	Elements that evoke feelings in the readers	12
7376227530	Pun	A play on words	13
7376227531	Slang	an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words	14
7376227532	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	15
7376227533	Flashback	present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described	16
7376227534	First person	the narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns such as I and we	17
7376227535	objective point of view	is not in the story and can only say what can be inferred	18
7376227536	omniscient point of view	the narrator is all knowing and can enter the minds of multiple characters	19
7376227537	Limited point of view	the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character	20
7376227538	third person	Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	21
7376227539	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	22
7376227540	euphimism	PC expressions to refer to other names Such as Kick the bucket is death	23
7376227541	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	24
7376227542	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	25