AP Unit 3 Flashcards

7012842612	ambiguity	a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	0
7012839819	allegory	a story in which the narrative/characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or ethical meaning	1
7012842613	antagonist	a character or force in a work of literature that opposes the protagonist to create the conflict	2
7012843791	protagonist	the main character of a literary work	3
7012843792	archetype	an abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model/form	4
7012845243	atmosphere	the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	5
7012848918	fable	a short tale often featuring nonhuman characters that act as people and whose actions enable the author to make observations or draw useful lessons about human behavior	6
7012848919	gothic	style of writing characterized by elements of fear, horror, sadness, and death as well as elements of romanticism such as individuality, nature, and high emotion	7
7012850185	harangue	a forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade	8
7012851169	third person omniscient	a point of view in which the narrator has unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of all characters, setting, background, and other elements of the story	9
7012851170	third person limited	a point of view in which the narrator generally reports only what one character sees and the thoughts of that one character	10
7012851171	mood	the overall feeling of a literary work	11
7012852200	satire	a literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of making a change in society or bringing about awareness	12
7012852201	moral	a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature	13
7012852202	nemesis	the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	14
7012853608	parable	a story that instructs; a story that consists of a moral or spiritual truth	15
7012853609	pathetic fallacy	ascribing human feelings to nature or non human objects (a kind of personification that focuses only on nature)	16
7012854734	prelude	an introduction, usually to a poem or longer work of verse	17
7012857138	tone	an author's attitude toward the topic or subject	18
7012858627	romanticism	the literary style that emphasizes imagination, nature, emotion, and individual expression	19