AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

9874611141	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9874611142	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9874611143	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9874611144	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9874611145	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
9874611146	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
9874611147	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
9874611148	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
9874611149	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
9874611150	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
9874611151	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
9874611152	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
9874611153	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
9874611154	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
9874611155	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
9874611156	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
9874611157	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
9874611158	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
9874611159	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
9874611160	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
9874611161	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
9874611162	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
9874611163	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
9874611164	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
9874611165	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
9874611166	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
9874611167	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
9874611168	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
9874611169	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
9874611170	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
9874611171	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
9874611172	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
9874611173	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
9874611174	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
9874611175	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
9874611176	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
9874611177	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
9874611178	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
9874611179	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
9874611180	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
9874611181	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
9874611182	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
9874611183	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
9874611184	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
9874611185	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
9874611186	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
9874611187	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
9874611188	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9874611189	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
9874611190	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
9874611191	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
9874611192	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
9874611193	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
9874611194	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
9874611195	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
9874611196	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
9874611197	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
9874611198	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
9874611199	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
9874611200	narrator	Person telling the story	59
9874611201	octave	8 line stanza	60
9874611202	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
9874611203	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
9874611204	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
9874611205	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
9874611206	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
9874611207	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
9874611208	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9874611209	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9874611210	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
9874611211	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	70
9874611212	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
9874611213	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	72
9874611214	protagonist	Main character	73
9874611215	quatrain	A four-line stanza	74
9874611216	rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	75
9874611217	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
9874611218	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
9874611219	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
9874611220	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	79
9874611221	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
9874611222	sestet	six-line stanza	81
9874611223	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
9874611224	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	83
9874611225	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
9874611226	sonnet	14-line poem	85
9874611227	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9874611228	stream of consciousness	a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.	87
9874611229	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
9874611230	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
9874611231	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
9874611232	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
9874611233	tercet	three-line stanza	92
9874611234	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
9874611235	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	94
9874611236	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
9874611237	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
9874611238	truncation	the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.	97
9874611239	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
9874611240	verse	A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
9874611241	villanelle	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