AP English Literature Review of Terms Flashcards

9739231744	lyric	subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which revels the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression	0
9739244300	narrative	nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative	1
9739257444	rhetorical question	a question that expects no answer	2
9739260782	juxtaposition	normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit	3
9739280263	syntax	the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	4
9739284131	stream of consciousness	writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations rushing through a character's mind (interior monologue)	5
9739300325	satire	writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform	6
9744053538	point of view	the vantage point from which the writer tells a story	7
9744060584	first person point of view	narrator is a character in the story who tells the story from his/her own perspective	8
9745015977	limited third person point of view	narrator can enter the mind of only one character to tell the story	9
9745033406	omniscient third person point of view	narrator is outside the story; a godlike observer who can tell us what all the characters are thinking/feeling	10
9745043459	pastoral elements	presents rustic life in idealistic terms	11
9745053899	parallelism	repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure	12
9745076954	narrator	one who tells the story	13
9745086828	motif	a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs (within a work on in several works)	14
9745089510	mood	the atmosphere of a literary work	15
9745091085	In Media Res	the technique of starting a story in the middle of the action and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier	16
9745094413	frame story	an introductory narrative that "contains" another narrative or narratives	17
9745096386	foreshadowing	the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the story	18
9745099344	foil	a character who sets off another character by strong contrast	19
9745103067	flashback	a scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to tell us what happened earlier	20
9745119932	epiphany	a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences in a literary work	21
9745128157	dialect	a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people	22
9745132064	conflict	struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions (external or internal)	23
9745137302	round character	has more dimension to his/her personality; complex, solid, multifaceted, like real people	24
9745140125	flat character	has only one or two personality traits	25
9745143996	dynamic character	a character that changes in some important way as a result of the story's action	26
9745145383	static character	a character who does not change much in the course of the story	27
9745154068	characterization	how a writer reveals a character	28
9745162561	direct characterization	by telling us directly what the character is like	29
9745164963	indirect characterization	- by describing how the character looks and dresses - by letting us hear the character speak - by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings - by revealing the character's effect on other people - by showing the character's actions	30
9745179404	carpe diem	seize the day (make the most of the present moment)	31
9745183541	connotation	the meanings, associations, and/or emotions that a word suggests	32
9745185350	denotation	literal, dictionary definition of a word	33
9745192508	diction	choice of words	34
9745193555	style	the manner in which writers or speakers say what they wish to say (look for diction and tone)	35
9745196592	speaker	imaginary voice or persona assumed by the author (the voice we hear in a poem)	36
9745200368	theme	author's major idea or meaning	37
9745201759	tone	author's attitude toward his/her subject or audience	38
9745206144	allusion	a reference (to something usually presumed to be well known)	39
9745209028	oxymoron	a figure of speech which combines apparently contradictory or incongruent ideas (eloquent silence)	40
9745221417	paradox	a statement which appears self-contradictory but is actually true (or represents the truth)	41
9745224633	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	42
9745233969	symbol	a person, place, thing, event that functions as itself and represents something beyond itself	43
9745244950	irony	a contrast between expectation and reality	44
9745246559	verbal irony	meaning on thing and saying another	45
9745247857	dramatic irony	two levels of meaning- what the speaker says and what he/she means or what the speaker says and what the author means	46
9745254908	situational irony	when the reality of the situation differs from the anticipated or intended effect	47
9745263635	hyperbole	gross exaggeration of effect; overstatement	48
9745267274	synecdoche	the substitution of a part for the whole	49
9745270043	metonymy	substitution of a word which relates to the object of person for the name itself	50
9745275127	apostrophe	direct address to a person or personified object not present or unable to answer	51