Ap Literature Flashcards

8456637316	Title	Original title that is descriptive and informative	0
8456637317	Thesis	Thesis that asserts a claim and states it's significance	1
8456637318	Tense	Writes consistently in 3rd person present tense (he goes to the park)	2
8456637319	Plot and structure	The sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story	3
8456637320	Conflict	Clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills-conflict may be physical, mental, emotional, or moral	4
8456637321	Protagonist	Central character in conflict-simply the central character, not always the hero	5
8456637322	Suspense	Increases a readers curiosity combined with the fate of a likeable, sympathetic character- closely linked with the elements of surprise	6
8456637323	More suspense	Proportional to the unexpectedness of what happens, when the story departs radically from expectations, surprise ending one that features a sudden unexpected turn or twist	7
8456637324	Writers use two common devices	Mystery and dilemma	8
8456637325	Mystery	An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation	9
8456637326	Dilemma	A position In which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable, whether a story has a surprise ending it almost always has a happy ending	10
8456637327	If fiction is to mirror human life	It must acknowledge human defeat as well	11
8456637328	We need to expect and understand	Defeat as well as victory	12
8456637329	Artistic unity	Does not include irrelevant information that does not contribute to the meaning or advance the central intention of the story, they don't select but arrange and must form a logical progression	13
8456637330	Plot manipulation	When an author includes a turn in the plot that is unjustified by the situation of characters, such as an unmotivated action	14
8456637331	Deus ex machina	Latin for god from machine, Greek practice of having a god descend from heaven at the last minute to rescue the protagonist, not convincing resolution in fiction, action should grow out of the plot rather than end with a chance resolution	15
8456637332	Chance	The occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause in previous events or in predisposition of character, if the author uses an improbable chance event	16
8456637333	Coincidence	The chance occurrence of two events that may have a peculiar correspondence, more problematic than chance, since it is chance compounded, may be used to initiate a story and to occasionally complicate it, but not resolve it	17
8456637334	indirect characterization	Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions	18
8456637335	Direct method usually has..	Little emotional impact unless bolstered by the indirect	19
8456637336	Stock character	Flat character, stereotyped figures who have recurred so often in fiction that we recognize them at once	20
8456637337	Static character	Remains the same person from start to finish	21
8456637338	Dynamic character	Undergoes distinct changes on outlook, character, and personality	22
8456637339	Epiphany	A moment of spiritual insight into life or into the characters own circumstances	23
8456637340	Theme	The controlling idea or insight to a piece of literature	24
8456637341	Theme 2	Unifying generalization about life stated or implied in a story, not all stories have a significant theme	25
8456637342	Theme exists when	Author tries to reveal some truth in describing life, introduces a concept or theory of life that the story illuminates	26
8456637343	Omniscient	Third person narrative who knows the whole story	27
8456637344	third person limited	in third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character	28
8456637345	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	29
8456637346	Objective	Narrator can go anywhere but can't comment, intercept, or go into a characters mind	30
8456637347	HTRLLAP violence	Symbolic, thematic, biblical, Shakespearean, romantic, allegorical, transcendent-relationship with the universe	31
8456637348	Two examples of violence	Specific injury, physical to self or others very gory Narrative violence, suffering/death in the plot all have purpose	32
8456637349	Allegories have one mission:	Convey a certain message	33
8456637350	Tone	an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience Formal, informal, serious, comical, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.	34
8456637351	Diction	A style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer	35
8456637352	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	36
8456637353	Imagery	Fig language to help create a mental picture	37