AP Lit Term Review Flashcards

6739088917	anagnorisis	discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character	0
6739094692	ballad	relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form	1
6739100762	bildungsroman	novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity	2
6739105247	canon	works of a writer, or groups of writers	3
6739113194	comedy of manners	play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes	4
6739116337	conceit	extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things	5
6739120523	deus ex machina	literally "god out of a machine;" sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer	6
6739138117	diction	conscious word choice	7
6739141249	dramatic monologue	poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining his/her feelings, actions, or motives	8
6739147878	elegy	sad, mournful, melancholic poem	9
6739156118	enjambment	continuation of one line of poetry into the next with no punctuation at the end of a line	10
6739168776	epigraph	short saying at the beginning of a work, often alluding to various themes contained within the work	11
6739175864	foil	character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits	12
6739182410	foreshadowing	event or statement that suggests or hints at a future event	13
6739186690	hamartia	fatal flaw of a tragic hero	14
6739189673	hubris	excessive pride that leads to a hero's downfall	15
6739196297	motif	recurring or dominant element of a poem or story	16
6739201093	objectivity	impersonal view of events	17
6739204456	subjectivity	personal view of events	18
6739207457	paradox	seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection	19
6739211832	pastoral	a work that highlights the simple life of shepherds, farmers, or the country	20
6739219169	peripeteia	reversal of fortune or character	21
6739225117	satire	genre which ridicules its subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change	22
6739248493	epithet	an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. "Father of our country" and "the great Emancipator" are examples.	23
6739258151	farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.	24
6739266507	juxtaposition	poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.	25
6739276983	litotes	a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form	26
6739287415	mood	atmosphere created by the author's diction choices and details	27
6739298146	romance	in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful.	28
6739304008	soliloquy	an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play	29
6739316785	tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.	30
6739334298	epistolary	a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another.	31
6739342975	in medias res	A story that begins in the middle of the action	32