AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

9715791084	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9715791085	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9715791086	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9715791087	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9715791088	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
9715791089	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
9715791090	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
9715791091	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
9715791092	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
9715791093	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
9715791094	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
9715791095	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
9715791096	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
9715791097	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
9715791098	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
9715791099	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
9715791100	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
9715791101	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
9715791102	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
9715791103	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
9715791104	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
9715791105	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
9715791106	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
9715791107	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
9715791108	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
9715791109	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
9715791110	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
9715791111	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
9715791112	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
9715791113	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
9715791114	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
9715791115	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
9715791116	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
9715791117	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
9715791118	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
9715791119	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
9715791120	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
9715791121	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
9715791122	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
9715791123	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
9715791124	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
9715791125	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
9715791126	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
9715791127	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
9715791128	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
9715791129	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
9715791130	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
9715791131	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9715791132	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
9715791133	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
9715791134	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	50
9715791135	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
9715791136	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	52
9715791137	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
9715791138	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
9715791139	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
9715791140	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
9715791141	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
9715791142	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
9715791143	narrator	Person telling the story	59
9715791144	octave	8 line stanza	60
9715791145	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
9715791146	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
9715791147	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
9715791148	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
9715791149	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
9715791150	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
9715791151	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9715791152	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9715791153	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	69
9715791154	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	70
9715791155	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
9715791156	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	72
9715791157	protagonist	Main character	73
9715791158	quatrain	A four-line stanza	74
9715791159	rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	75
9715791160	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
9715791161	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
9715791162	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
9715791163	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	79
9715791164	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
9715791165	sestet	six-line stanza	81
9715791166	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
9715791167	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	83
9715791168	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
9715791169	sonnet	14-line poem	85
9715791170	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9715791171	stream of consciousness	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.	87
9715791172	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
9715791173	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
9715791174	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
9715791175	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
9715791176	tercet	three-line stanza	92
9715791177	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
9715791178	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	94
9715791179	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
9715791180	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
9715791181	truncation	the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.	97
9715791182	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
9715791183	verse	A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
9715791184	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	100