AP Literature Flashcards

10014620989	Drama	-Derived from the Greek word "dram" meaning "to do" or "to perform." The term may refer to a single play, group of plays, or to all plays. Designed for performance in a theater.	0
10014634805	Play	-General term for a work of dramatic literature	1
10014638215	Playwright	-A writer who makes plays	2
10014639714	Script	-The written text of a play, which includes dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository information.	3
10014646870	Stage Directions	-A playwright's written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play. They explain in which direction characters should move, what facial expressions to use, etc.	4
10014659165	Dialogue	-The verbal exchanges between characters. Makes the character seem real to the reader and audience by revealing firsthand their thoughts, responses, and emotional states.	5
10014678381	One-Act-Play	-A play that takes place in a single location and unfolds as one continuous action. Characters are presented economically and action is sharply focused.	6
10014688788	Act	-A major division in the action of a play. The ends are typically indicated by lowering the curtain or turning up the houselights.	7
10014725627	Scene	-In drama, it's a subdivision of an act. In modern plays, they usually consist of units of action in which there are no changes in the setting or breaks in the continuity of time.	8
10014742529	Setting	-The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs.. The major elements include time, place, and social environment that frames the character.	9
10035873109	Suspense	-The anxious anticipation of a reader or an audience as to the outcome of the story, especially concerning the character or characters with whom sympathetic attachments are formed	10
10035873110	Exposition	-A narrative device,, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background about characters and their circumstances.	11
10035873111	Conflict	-The struggle within the plot between opposing forces	12
10035873144	Plot	-An author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus.	13
10035875946	Pyramidal Pattern	-Divides the plot three essential parts	14
10035875947	Denouement	-A french term meaning "unraveling" or "unknotting" used describe the resolution of the plot following the climax	15
10035875948	Protagonist	-The main character of a narrative; its central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy	16
10035879260	Antagonist	-The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise conflict to the story.	17
10035879261	Foil	-A character in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlight distinctive temperament of that character.	18
10036583691	Orchestra	-The dancing place where the chorus performed	19
10036583692	Chorus	-A group of men who chanted lines and danced	20
10036585801	Skene	-A stage building that served as dressing rooms and eventually became a type of set or backdrop.	21
10036585802	Deus Ex machina	-L. "God from the machine") Mechanical devices for lowering gods onto the performing area.	22
10036585803	Prologue	-An opening speech or dialogue that usually gives the exposition necessary to follow the plot.	23
10036588523	Episodia	-Episodes in which characters engage in dialogue.	24
10036588524	Stasimon	-A choral ode that follows each episode, in which the chorus responds to and interprets the preceding dialogue.	25
10036591131	Exodus	-The last scene, in which the resolution occurs and the characters leave the stage.	26
10036591132	Mystery Plays	-Dramatizations of stories from the Bible.	27
10036593290	Miracle Plays	-Dramatizations of the lives of saints.	28
10036595495	Morality Plays	-Presentations of allegorical stories in which virtues and vices were personified.	29
10037275842	Parados	-Where the chorus makes its first entrance and gives its perspective on what the audience has learned in the prologue.	30
10037295477	Aside	-A speech directed to the audience.	31
10037299896	Soliloquy	-A speech delivered while an actor is alone on the stage.	32
10037532632	Melodrama	-Love stories and action-packed plots that offer audiences thrills and chills as well as happy endings.	33
10037532633	Realism	-A technique that attempts to create the appearance of life as it is actually experienced	34
10037535563	Naturalism	-A type of realism that takes more of a philosophical approach.	35
10037610187	Problem Play	-A drama that represents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to it.	36
10037614005	Symbolist Drama:	-Emphasizes a subjective, emotional response to life and seeks to express spiritual truth through settings, characters, and actions that suggest a transcendent reality.	37
10037617313	Expressionism	-Emphasizes the internal lives of characters and deliberately distorts reality by creating an outward manifestation of an inner state of being.	38
10037624212	Theatre of the Absurd	-A response to loss of faith in reason, religion, and life itself that emphasizes chaotic, irrational forces and portrays human beings as more the victims than the makers of their world.	39
10037627025	Tragedy	-A presentation of courageous individuals who confront powerful forces ,within or outside themselves, with dignity.	40
10037714641	Hamartia	-An error or frailty that brings about the misfortune of the protagonist.	41
10037719264	Hubris	-Overarching pride that leads to the misfortune of the protagonist	42
10037723601	Catharsis	-When an audience feels relief at the end of a tragedy, a purgation of the emotions of pity and fear	43
10037730989	Reversal	-The point when a hero's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction.	44
10037734997	Recognition	-When previously unknown information is revealed	45
10037752108	Comedy	-A work intended to interest, involve, and amuse an audience, in which no terrible disaster occurs and that ends happily for the main characters.	46
10037755539	High Comedy	-Comedy that is typified by verbal wit	47
10037758596	Low Comedy	Comedy that is less intellectual and generally associated with physical action	48
10037760549	Romantic Comedy	A comedy that typically involves lovers whose hearts are set on each other, but whose lives are complicated by some sort of misunderstanding.	49
10037763655	Satire	A form of comedy in which vices and follies are criticized	50
10037767574	Farce	A form of humor based on exaggerated, improbable incongruities	51