AP Flashcards

6709306254	Satire	literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure	0
6709308884	Scansion	the analysis of verse to show its meter	1
6709308887	Setting	time and place of the action in a story poem or play	2
6709313357	Shakespearean Sonnet	also called an english sonnet a sonnet from that divides the poem into three units of four lines each	3
6709313358	Shaped Verse	poetry that is shaped to look like an object	4
6709317841	Simile	a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another like or as	5
6709320302	Soliloquy	monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to him or herself	6
6709327950	Speaker	the person not necessarily the author who is the voice of a poem	7
6709327951	Stanza	section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing	8
6709330980	Sterotype	characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, gender, age, ethic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status	9
6709330981	Stock Character	one who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel step mother.	10
6709333688	Structure	the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work.	11
6709333689	Style	distinctive manor of expression each author's style is expressed through his or her diction rhythm imagery.	12
6709335281	Symbolism	a person place thing event or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or stands for something else.	13
6709336408	Synecdoche	a part is used to signify a whole as in all hands on deck! and The Rustler bragged he'd absconded with five hundred head of long horns.	14