AP Literature Review Terms3 Flashcards

9857539532	Allegory	A story or poem with two levels of meaning: literal and symbolic. In this type of story, almost every character, item, action, etc. is symbolic.	0
9857539533	Alliteration	When several words in close proximity begin with the same consonant sound	1
9857539534	Allusion	A reference to another text, event, or historical/literary figure	2
9857539535	Anaphora	When the first few words of successive sentences or lines of poetry are the same	3
9857539536	Antagonist	The character who works against the protagonist	4
9857539537	Apostrophe	Figure of speech used to address something which can not respond back	5
9857539538	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds in words which appear close to one another in a poem or passage	6
9857539539	Dynamic character	A character who changes as a result of the events of the plot	7
9857539540	Static character	A character whose personality remains the same throughout the events of the plot	8
9857539541	Characterization	The process of revealing a character's personality	9
9857539542	Climax	The part of the story where conflict hits its highest point	10
9857539543	Conflict	A struggle between opposing forces	11
9857539544	Connotation	The secondary meanings of a word, including their emotional connections	12
9857539545	Consonance	Repetition of same consonant in words close together	13
9857539546	Couplet	Two rhyming lines in verse	14
9857539547	Denotation	The literal meaning of a word	15
9857539548	Denouement	The final outcome of the story	16
9857539549	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	17
9857539550	Verbal irony	A figure of speech in which there is a difference between what is said and what is meant	18
9857539551	Dramatic irony	A type of irony in which the audience or reader knows more than a character knows	19
9857539552	Situational irony	A type of irony which occurs when there is a difference between expectation and reality	20
9857539553	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	21
9857539554	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is closely associated with it	22
9857539555	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	23
9857539556	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	24
9857539557	Paradox	A statement which seems to contradict itself but actually reveals a truth	25
9857539558	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	26
9857539559	Omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	27
9857539560	Third person limited point of view	An outside narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	28
9857539561	First person point of view	A character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	29
9857539562	Objective point of view	A narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	30
9857539563	Protagonist	The character with whom the audience is led to sympathize; often the main character	31
9857539564	Quatrain	A four line stanza	32
9857539565	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies in order to promote change	33
9857539566	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	34
9857539567	Stream of consciousness	A style of narration which imitates the characters' uninterrupted thought process	35
9857539568	Symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	36
9857539569	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole	37
9857539570	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	38
9857539571	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	39
9857539572	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	40
9857539573	Understatement	The deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is	41
9857539574	Bildungsroman	Term for a "coming of age" novel or play	42
9857539575	Blank verse	Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter	43
9857539576	Free verse	Poetry which has neither consistent rhyme nor meter	44
9857539577	Meter	The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	45
9857539578	Elegy	A sad poem about a death, usually memorializing the person who has died	46
9857539579	Ode	A serious poem glorifying the subject	47
9857539580	Iambic pentameter	A line of poetry consisting of five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one	48
9857539581	Mood	The feeling or atmosphere created in a work of literature	49
9857539582	Conceit	A lengthy comparison between two dissimilar items	50
9857539583	Diction	An author's word choice	51
9857539584	Dramatic monologue	A long poem in which a single speaker talks to a silent audience, revealing his or her inner thoughts	52
9857539585	Foreshadowing	Hints or clues about what is to come later in a work of literature	53
9857539586	Foil	Two characters with opposing traits whose purpose is to highlight each others' differences	54
9857539587	Lyric poem	A poem which is about thoughts and feelings	55
9857539588	Narrative poem	A poem which tells a complete story; includes plot, characters, setting, and theme	56
9857539589	Sonnet	A fourteen line poem which follows a specific pattern of rhyme	57
9857539590	Villanelle	A 19 line poem which uses only two rhyming sounds and repeats two refrains throughout the course of the poem	58