AP Literature Vocab (Unit 5) Flashcards

4768220717	parallelism	(n) when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length.	0
4768220718	parody	(n) a kind of burlesque that is a humorous imitation of serious writing, usually for the purpose of making the style of an author appear ridiculous.	1
4768221417	persona	(n) the speaker or narrator of a text or poem. Cannot be assumed to be the author.	2
4768221418	personification	(n) the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities.	3
4768221419	plot	(n) the series of happenings in a literary work.	4
4768221420	point of view	(n) the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it.	5
4768222039	polysyndeton	(n) using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.	6
4768222040	prosody	(n) the mechanics of verse poetry - its sounds, rhythms, scansions and meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, assonance, euphony, onomatopoeia, and rhyme.	7
4768222041	protagonist	(n) the leading character in a literary work.	8
4768222042	pun	(n) a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has different meanings or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings.	9
4768222043	rhyme	(n) exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words.	10
4768222640	rhyme scheme	(n) the pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line.	11
4768222641	satire	(n) the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform.	12
4768222642	setting	(n) the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs.	13
4768222643	simile	(n) a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.	14