AP Literature and Composition Set 1 Flashcards
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| 7164148791 | Interpretive Literature | Literature written to broaden and deepen and "shapen" our awareness of life and the human condition. | 0 | |
| 7164148792 | Escape Literature | Literature written purely for entertainment. [Also formula fiction] | 1 | |
| 7164148793 | Didactic | Literature with the primary purpose to teach or preach. | 2 | |
| 7164148794 | Allegory | A narration or description which has a second meaning beneath the surface one. Usually there exists a one-to-one correspondence between its details and a set of ulterior meanings. | 3 | |
| 7164148795 | Farce | A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in farfetched, silly situations, such as Cervantes' Don Quixote. | 4 | |
| 7164148796 | Romance | Historically, a medieval verse narrative chronicling the adventures of a brave knight or other hero who must overcome great danger for love of a noble lady or high ideal. | 5 | |
| 7164148797 | Epic | A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. | 6 | |
| 7164148798 | Mock Epic | A comic narrative poem that parodies the epic by treating a trivial subject in a lofty, grand manner, such as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. [The modern parody, or the imitation of a work of literature, art, music for amusement or instruction, falls into this category.] | 7 | |
| 7164148799 | Myth | An anonymous traditional story (supposedly based on historical events) that usually serves to explain a belief, custom, or mysterious natural phenomenon. | 8 | |
| 7164148800 | Novel | A long fictional-prose narrative, usually of more than fifty thousand words. | 9 | |
| 7164148801 | Autobiography | An account of a person's own life. | 10 | |
| 7164148802 | Biography | An account of a person's life written or told by another person. | 11 | |
| 7164148803 | Parable | A short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life. | 12 | |
| 7164148804 | Fable | A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, of a practical lesson about life. | 13 | |
| 7164148805 | Tall Tale | Sometimes related to a myth, it is an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable, but serves as possible explanation, such as Pacos Bill and why Texas is known as the "Lone Star" state. | 14 |