AP Literature Chap. 3 Flashcards

10734681022	Plot	the arrangement of events in a narrative; the action in the story	0
10734688323	Narrative	a story	1
10734694743	Conflicts	complications in the story	2
10734698630	Exposition	states the background information and gives the nature of the conflict	3
10734705850	Rising Action	the conflict and complications begin to build	4
10734712955	Climax	when the emotional tension reaches its peak	5
10734719260	Falling Action	when the conflict gets resolved	6
10734727977	Resolution/ Denouement	the state of balance is restored to the world of the story	7
10734738893	In medias res	a narrative begins in the middle of the action	8
10734743774	Flashback	describes events that have taken place before the story begins	9
10734749980	Foreshadowing	hints at things that may happen later in the story	10
10734754929	Protagonist	the main character	11
10734758230	Antagonist	character who the protagonist is in a conflict with	12
10734764648	Coming-of-age story/ Bildungsroman	a young character grows from innocence to experience	13
10748871268	Epiphany	when a character suddenly realizes something significant about life from an everyday, mundane experience	14
10748887597	Round Character (Dynamic)	a character who exhibits a range of emotions	15
10748898314	Flat Character (Static)	a character that has only one or two traits and lacks character development	16
10748905738	Foil	a contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctly	17
10748919314	Stock Character	characters based on a stereotype	18
10748926489	Direct Characterization	occurs when a narrator strictly describes the background, motivation, temperament, or appearance of a character	19
10748939270	Indirect Characterization	when the author shows us what a character is like through what he or she says, does, or thinks, or what others say about the character	20
10748949751	Setting	the time and place or where and when of a story or text	21
10748957478	First Person Point of View	when the reader sees the world through a single character's perspective	22
10748967683	Unreliable Narrator	a narrator who is biased and doesn't give a full or accurate picture of events in a narrative; is often naiive, immoral, and/or inexperienced	23
10748989568	Third Person Point of View	a narrator that is not in the story	24
10748996706	Third Person Omniscient	when a reader has access to what all the characters think and feel	25
10749004668	Third Person Limited Omniscient	when a reader has access to only one character's thoughts or feelings	26
10749017607	Objective Narrator (Neutral)	a neutral narrator	27
10749022545	Stream of Consciousness	takes readers inside the mind of a narrator, recounting thoughts, impressions, and feelings without the filters of causality or logic	28
10749036061	Layered Points of View	when a narrative is told through multiple layered perspectives	29
10749045292	Narrative Frame (Frame Story)	when the author introduces another story using another story or another narrator with another narrator	30
10749058936	Symbols	objects, places, events, and even characters that carry more than just their literal meaning that points to the meaning of the work as a whole	31
10749071196	Motif	a recurring pattern	32
10749076820	Theme	the way of a work of literature explores issues or raises questions	33
10749091949	Dialogue	a conversation between two or more characters	34
10749099138	Soliloquy	when a character is alone on stage and is revealing their thoughts or emotions	35
10749107674	Dramatic Irony	when the readers know something that the characters do not	36