AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

8443309603	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
8443309604	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
8443309605	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
8443309606	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
8443309607	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
8443309608	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
8443309609	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	6
8443309610	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	7
8443309611	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	8
8443309612	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	9
8443309613	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	10
8443309614	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	11
8443309615	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	12
8443309616	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	13
8443309617	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	14
8443309618	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	15
8443309619	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	16
8443309620	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	17
8443309621	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	18
8443309622	denouement	final outcome of the story	19
8443309623	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	20
8443309624	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	21
8443309625	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	22
8443309626	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	23
8443309627	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	24
8443309628	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	25
8443309629	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	26
8443309630	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	27
8443309631	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	28
8443309632	narrator	Person telling the story	29
8443309633	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	30
8443309634	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	31
8443309635	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	32
8443309636	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	33
8443309637	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	34
8443309638	plot	Sequence of events in a story	35
8443309639	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	36
8443309640	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	37
8443309641	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	38
8443309642	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.	39
8443309643	protagonist	Main character	40
8443309644	quatrain	A four line stanza	41
8443309645	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	42
8443309646	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	43
8443309647	stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	44
8443309648	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	45
8443309649	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	46
8443309650	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	47
8443309651	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	48
8443309652	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	49
8443309653	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	50