AP Literature: Terms to know Flashcards

8977146409	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
8977146410	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
8977146411	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
8977146412	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
8977146413	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
8977146414	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
8977146415	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
8977146416	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
8977146417	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
8977146418	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
8977146419	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
8977146420	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
8977146421	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
8977146422	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
8977146423	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
8977146424	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
8977146425	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
8977146426	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
8977146427	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
8977146428	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
8977146429	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
8977146430	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
8977146431	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
8977146432	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
8977146433	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
8977146434	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
8977146435	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
8977146436	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
8977146437	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
8977146438	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
8977146439	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
8977146440	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
8977146441	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
8977146442	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
8977146443	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
8977146444	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
8977146445	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
8977146446	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
8977146447	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
8977146448	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
8977146449	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
8977146450	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
8977146451	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
8977146452	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
8977146453	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
8977146454	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
8977146455	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
8977146456	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
8977146457	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
8977146458	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
8977146459	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	50
8977146460	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
8977146461	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	52
8977146462	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
8977146463	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
8977146464	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
8977146465	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
8977146466	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
8977146467	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
8977146468	narrator	Person telling the story	59
8977146469	octave	8 line stanza	60
8977146470	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
8977146471	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
8977146472	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
8977146473	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
8977146474	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
8977146475	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
8977146476	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
8977146477	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
8977146478	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	69
8977146479	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
8977146480	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
8977146481	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
8977146482	protagonist	Main character	73
8977146483	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
8977146484	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
8977146485	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
8977146486	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
8977146487	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
8977146488	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
8977146489	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
8977146490	sestet	6 line stanza	81
8977146491	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
8977146492	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
8977146493	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
8977146494	sonnet	14 line poem	85
8977146495	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
8977146496	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
8977146497	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
8977146498	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
8977146499	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
8977146500	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
8977146501	tercet	3 line stanza	92
8977146502	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
8977146503	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
8977146504	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
8977146505	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
8977146506	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
8977146507	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
8977146508	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
8977146509	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	100