AP fiction terms Flashcards

4759064096	anticlimax	an effect that spoils the climax	0
4759064587	archetype	a pattern, character type, image, symbol, or motif that recurs consistently enough in literature to be considered universal	1
4759068590	characterization	the method by which an author creates the appearance and personality of characters	2
4759069877	confidante	someone the protagonist talks to, enabling the audience/reader to become aware of the protagonist's motivation	3
4759072286	dystopia	an undesirable imaginary society	4
4759073036	explication de texte	the detailed analysis or close reading of verse or prose	5
4759073931	incident	an event or episode that moves the plot forward	6
4759074905	motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in a literary work or throughout various works	7
4759077765	motivation	the impulses and circumstances that cause a character to act, think, or feel a certain way	8
4759078883	narrative voice	the attitude, personality, or character of the narrator	9
4759079854	point of view	the vantage point from which a story is told; the eye and mind through which the action is perceived and filtered	10
4759082680	1st person pov	story is told by a character who uses the 1st person pronoun "I" (no insight is given into other characters' thoughts or motives)	11
4759086323	3rd person objective pov	characters' behavior and actions are not interpreted; no private thoughts or feelings are revealed; the reader only experiences the characters' words and actions	12
4759092387	3rd person omniscient pov	narrator is free to tell what characters think and feel and why they act as they do	13
4759096822	3rd person limited pov	narrator tells only what one character feels, thinks, sees, or hears	14
4759101249	reliability	the extent to which a narrator can be trusted or believed	15
4759101910	stereotype	a character who represents a trait generally attributed to a social or racial group	16
4759103265	subplot	a secondary series of events that are subordinate to the main story	17
4759104392	suspense	quality that makes the reader or audience tense or uncertain about the outcome of events	18
4759105927	suspension of disbelief	the demand made of an audience/reader to use imagination and accept limits of reality, staging, and plot	19
4759108856	symbol	anything that represents something beyond itself (one things stands for another)	20
4759109838	theme	the message about life and the human experience that is sent via a literary work; the life lesson portrayed through reading a literary work	21
4759112148	utopia	a desirable, imaginary society	22