AP English Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

10510020283	allegory	a form of extended metaphor in which objects and personas in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself	0
10510021745	allusion	an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event	1
10510022724	anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	2
10510023599	antihero	a protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities	3
10510027899	atmosphere	the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	4
10510029250	detail	the items or parts that make up a larger picture or story	5
10510029912	diction	word choice	6
10510030349	syntax	sentence structure	7
10510030889	elements of short stories	character, irony, theme, symbol, plot, setting	8
10510031509	first-person narrator	a narrator within the story who tells the story from the "I" perspective	9
10510032369	foreshadowing	an even of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later	10
10510033169	genre	a type of literature	11
10510033646	gothic (novel)	form first showed up in the middle of the 1700s, heyday of popularity of sixty years: mysterious, gloomy, sinister	12
10510034966	in medias res	in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things	13
10510035895	interior monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head	14
10510036606	irony	conveys a reality different and usually opposite to appearance or expectation	15
10510037013	juxtaposition	placement of two things side by side for emphasis	16
10510037540	lampoon	a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone	17
10510037907	motif	a recurring symbol	18
10510040408	narrative techniques	the methods employed in the telling of a story or an account (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, and internal monologue)	19
10510041198	nemesis	the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	20
10510041939	omniscient narrator	a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters	21
10510043146	parable	like a fable or an allegory, a story that instructs	22
10510043616	parody	a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule	23
10510044730	persona	the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing	24
10510045934	point of view	the relation in which the narrator stands to a subject of discourse. In literature, the perspective from which the story is told	25
10510046641	protagonist	the main character of a novel or play	26
10510047241	satire	a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies	27
10510048212	setting	physical location of a play, story, or novel, which often includes information about time and place	28
10510049103	stock characters	standard or cliched character types, such as drunk, the miser, and the foolish girl	29
10510051509	stream of consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner(often chaotic) workings of a character's mind	30
10510054095	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	31
10510054584	suspension of disbelief	the demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination	32
10510055612	symbol	something that stands for something else	33
10510055866	theme	main idea of the overall work; central idea	34
10510056230	tone	the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning	35
10510059802	travesty	a grossly inferior imitation; grotesque parody	36
10510060458	unreliable narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	37
10510061428	verisimilitude	the appearance of being true or real	38
10510061849	antagonist	a character or force in conflict with the main character	39