AP Literature and Composition Set 6 Flashcards

7978817892	Resolution	final stage in the plot of a drama or fiction	0
7978822415	Rhetoric	organization, strategy, and development of literary works, guided by an eye to how such elements will further the writer's intended effect	1
7978833785	Rhyme	repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used at end of lines	2
7978878146	Masculine rhyme	single syllables correspond - also called rising rhyme	3
7978883402	Feminine rhyme	two syllables correspond, second of which is stressed - also called falling rhyme or double rhyme	4
7978893859	Triple rhyme	three syllables correspond	5
7978897328	Eye rhyme	occurs when words look as if they would rhyme but don't -ex: "cough, tough"	6
7978906714	Perfect rhyme	corresponding vowel and consonant sounds of accented syllables must be preceded by different consonants -ex: "born, horn"	7
7978918231	Imperfect rhyme	occurs when consonants in two words are the same but intervening vowels are different -ex: "pick/pack," "lids/lads" -also called near rhyme, slant rhyme, and off rhyme	8
7978942074	End rhyme	most common rhyme; rhyming syllables are at the ends of lines	9
7978948135	Internal rhyme	consists of rhyming words found within a line of poetry	10
7978952285	Beginning rhyme	occurs in first syllable(s) of the line	11
7978958231	Rhyme royal	seven-line stanza (ababbcc) in iambic pentameter	12
7978968871	Rhythm	regular recurrence of sounds within a poem. Determined by arrangement of metrical feet in a line	13
7978984954	Sprung rhythm	introduced by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Number of strong stresses in a line determines rhythm, regardless of any weak syllables	14
7978998523	Rising action	stage in a play's plot during which the action builds in intensity	15
7979004260	Romance	type of narrative that deals with love and adventure in a non-realistic way, most popular in Middle Ages -used by Hawthorne	16
7979019102	Romantic comedy	comedy in which love is the main subject and idealized heroines and lovers endure great difficulties until the inevitable happy ending is reached -ex: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"	17
7979034975	Romanticism	18th and 19th century movement that valued subjectivity, individuality, imagination, nature, excess, the exotic, and the mysterious	18
7979047227	Round character	well developed character who is closely involved in action and responsive to it	19
7979059074	Run-on line	line of poetry that ends with no punctuation or natural pause and consequently runs over into next line -also called enjambment	20
7979071597	Sarcasm	form of irony in which apparent praise is used to convey strong, bitter criticism	21
7979079469	Satire	literary attack in folly or vanity by means of ridicule; usually intended to improve society	22
7979089492	Scansion	process of determining the meter of a poem by analyzing the strong and weak stresses in a line to find the unit of meter and the number of feet in each line	23
7979105184	Scrim	curtain that when illuminated from the front appears solid but when lit from the back becomes transparent	24
7979113307	Sentimental comedy	reaction against comedy of manners. This comedy relies on sentimental emotion rather than on wit or humor to move an audience and dwells on virtues of life	25
7979125728	Sestet	six-line stanza rhyming cdc/cdc in a Petrarchan sonnet	26
7979134634	Sestina	poem composed of 6 six-line stanzas and a three-line stanza conclusion. Each line ends with one of six key words. The alternation of these six words creates rhythmic verbal pattern	27
7979152562	Setting	background against which the action of a piece of literature takes place: the historical time, locale, season, time of day, interior decoration, etc.	28
7979169049	Shakespearean Sonnet	3 quatrains rhymed abab/cdcd/efef with a couplet rhymed gg -also called English sonnet	29
7979178116	Short story	fictional narrative centered on one climatic event and usually developing only a single character in depth; its scope is narrower than a novel's, and often uses setting and characterization more directly to make the theme clear	30
7979200571	Simile	comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using words like or as -ex: "My love is like an arrow through my heart"	31
7979210999	Situational irony	when what happens is at odds with what the story's situation leads readers to expect what will happen -ex: Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"	32
7979240169	Soliloquy	convention of drama in which a character speaks directly to audience, revealing thoughts and feelings which other characters present on stage are not assumed to hear. This is taken to reflect a character's sincere feelings and beliefs	33
7979256754	Sonnet	fourteen-line poem, usually a lyric in iambic pentameter -ex: Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" is Petrarchan	34
7979285162	Speaker	narrator of a poem or story; in Greek tragedy, it was a mask worn by an actor	35
7979304096	Spenserian stanza	nine-line form (ababbcbcc) with first 8 lines in iambic pentameter and last line in iambic hexameter	36
7979319054	Static character	character that remains unchanged	37
7979322455	Spondee	2 stressed syllables	38
7979330615	Stage business	actions or movement of an actor onstage -ex: lighting a cigarette, leaning on a mantel, straightening a picture	39
7979340706	Stage directions	words in a play that describe an actor's role apart from the dialogue, dealing with movements, attitudes, and so on	40
7979350210	Stage setting	scenery and props	41
7979375585	Expressionist setting	scenery and props are exaggerated and distorted to reflect the workings of a troubled, abnormal mind	42
7979381859	Surrealistic setting	designed to mirror the uncontrolled images of dreams and nightmares	43