AP Literature Flashcards Set 4 Flashcards

10499458731	Epic	a poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture; it uses elevated language and grand, high style. Prime examples of epic poetry include The Iliad, the Odyssey, and Paradise Lost. A more contemporary example could be George Lucas's Star Wars.	0
10499468499	Exposition	That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play.	1
10499473860	Extended metaphor	a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also known as a conceit.	2
10499475968	Falling Action	that part of plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled. This is also known as the denouement.	3
10499478003	Farce	a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor. Shakespeare's a Midsummer's Night's Dream is filled with farce. The more contemporary Catch-22 uses farce as did peter Sellers in the Pink Panther of Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.	4
10499514114	Foreshadowing	To hint at or present an indication of the future beforehand. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says, before meeting Juliet: ...my mind misgives Some consequences yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels and expire term Of a despised life closed to my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death	5
10499524658	Formal diction	language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal. Such diction is often used in narrative epic poetry.	6
10499529665	Flashback	retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative. Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is written as a flashback to specific events that took place in the adult narrator's childhood.	7
10499536997	Free verse	poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass uses free verse.	8
10499542133	Genre	a type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry or belles letters.	9