AP Unit 6 Flashcards

7117233551	bildungsroman	a novel dealing with the formative years of a character; a coming of age story	0
7117233552	epiphany	a moment of sudden insight/revelation that a character experiences	1
7117233553	oxymoron	a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction, juxtaposition of contradictory elements to create a paradoxical effect	2
7117233794	sarcasm	a sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt	3
7117233795	stream of consciousness	a writing style in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	4
7117234061	iamb	the combination of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable	5
7117234062	dynamic character	a character that changes throughout a story	6
7117235087	static character	a character that does not change throughout a story	7
7117235088	round character	a well-developed character	8
7117235343	flat character	a partially-developed character	9
7117235737	trochee	the combination of a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable	10
7117235738	foot	a basic rhythmic unit formed by a combination of two syllables	11
7117235739	free verse	a kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythms, or fixed metrical feet	12
7117236235	meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	13
7117236236	pentameter	5 feet of poetry per line	14
7117236237	prosody	the grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry	15
7117236512	pastoral	a work of literature dealing with rural / country life	16
7117236513	quatrain	four lines of poetry that form a unit	17
7117241160	scansion	the act of determining the meter of a poetic line	18
7117241449	asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses used to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence	19