AP Literature Flashcards

10875178052	Plot	the author's arrangement of incidents in a story	0
10875188773	Flashback	informs us about events that happened before the opening scene of work	1
10875200199	Character	An imagined person in the story	2
10875208972	Exposition	the background information the reader needs to make sense of the situation	3
10875223627	Rising Action	A complication that intensifies the situation	4
10875234008	Foreshadowing	a suggestion of what is yet to come	5
10875242008	Protagonist / Hero / Heroine	the central character who engages our interest and empathy	6
10875246567	Anatagonist	the force that opposes the protagonist	7
10875262820	Suspense	when the reader is made anxious about what is going to happen	8
10875270207	Climax	the moment of greatest emotional tension	9
10875277838	Denouement / Resolution	The end of the story	10
10875299434	Characterization	The characters seem to actually exist	11
10875330451	Absurdist Literature	characters are often alienated from themselves and their environment in an irrational world	12
10875334379	Antihero	has little control over events	13
10875342392	Dynamic Character	undergoes some kind of change because of the action in the plot	14
10875347996	Static Character	the plot does not change the character	15
10875359521	Foil	reveals the distinctive qualities between two characters	16
10875372637	Flat Character	embodies one or two qualities , ideas, or traits.	17
10875384418	Stock Characters	embody a stereotype such as mean stepfather or dumb blonde	18
10875392931	Round Character	Have more depth and are complex.	19
10875407511	Setting	the context in which the action of the story occurs.	20
10875418939	Point of view	who tells us the story and how it is told	21
10875422086	Narrator	the teller of the story	22
10875434525	Omniscient (Third Person)	the narrator takes us inside the characters.	23
10875446853	Limited Omniscient (Third Person)	the narrator takes us inside one or two characters	24
10875464226	Objective (Third Person)	the narrator is outside the characters.	25
10875480081	First Person	presents the point of view of only one characters consciousness	26
10875493305	Unreliable Narrator	their interpretation of events is different from the author's	27
10875503925	Symbol	a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning.	28
10875522062	Conventional Symbols	widely recognized by a society or culture	29
10875531223	Literary Symbol	established internally by the total context of the work.	30
10875553859	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	31
10875561182	Theme	the central idea or meaning of a story.	32
10875568470	Style	the distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects	33
10875584449	Diction	a writer's choice of words	34
10875593278	Tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	35
10875600641	Verbal Irony	a person says one thing and means another (sarcasm)	36
10875609001	Situational Irony	exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens	37
10875626012	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	38