AP Literature Flashcards

9821064731	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9821064732	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9821064733	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9821064734	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9821064735	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
9821064736	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
9821064737	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
9821064738	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
9821064739	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
9821064740	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
9821064741	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
9821064742	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
9821064743	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
9821064744	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
9821064745	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
9821064746	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
9821064747	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
9821064748	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
9821064749	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
9821064750	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
9821064751	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
9821064752	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
9821064753	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
9821064754	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
9821064755	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
9821064756	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
9821064757	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
9821064758	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
9821064759	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
9821064760	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
9821064761	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
9821064762	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
9821064763	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
9821064764	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
9821064765	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
9821064766	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
9821064767	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
9821064768	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
9821064769	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
9821064770	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
9821064771	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
9821064772	:)	:)	41
9821064773	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
9821064774	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
9821064775	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
9821064776	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
9821064777	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
9821064778	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9821064779	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
9821064780	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
9821064781	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
9821064782	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
9821064783	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
9821064784	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
9821064785	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
9821064786	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
9821064787	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
9821064788	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
9821064789	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
9821064790	narrator	Person telling the story	59
9821064791	octave	8 line stanza	60
9821064792	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
9821064793	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
9821064794	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
9821064795	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
9821064796	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
9821064797	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
9821064798	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9821064799	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9821064800	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
9821064801	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	70
9821064802	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
9821064803	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	72
9821064804	protagonist	Main character	73
9821064805	quatrain	A four line stanza	74
9821064806	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	75
9821064807	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
9821064808	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
9821064809	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
9821064810	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	79
9821064811	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
9821064812	sestet	6 line stanza	81
9821064813	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
9821064814	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
9821064815	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
9821064816	sonnet	14 line poem	85
9821064817	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9821064818	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	87
9821064819	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
9821064820	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
9821064821	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
9821064822	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
9821064823	tercet	3 line stanza	92
9821064824	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
9821064825	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	94
9821064826	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
9821064827	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
9821064828	truncation	Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted.	97
9821064829	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
9821064830	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
9821064831	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