AP Literature Terminology Set 3 Flashcards

7419288856	Invective	denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution.	0
7419305846	Monologue	which is the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud.	1
7419326423	Proverb	a brief, simple and popular saying, or a phrase that gives advice and effectively embodies a commonplace truth based on practical experience or common sense.	2
7419332470	Pun	a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.	3
7419336303	Sarcasm	a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock with often satirical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society simultaneously.	4
7419345166	Soliloquy	a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character.	5
7419351380	Slang	words that are not a part of standard vocabulary or language and are used informally.	6
7419361261	Understatement	a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.	7
7419366596	Idiom	a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words.	8
7419369594	Irony	a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.	9
7419377102	Dramatic Irony	a useful plot device for creating situations where audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before leading characters or actors.	10
7419383707	Verbal Irony	a character uses statement with underlying meanings contrasting with its literal meanings, it shows that the writer has used verbal irony.	11
7419391520	Situational Irony	when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.	12
7419409952	Epistolary novel	a literary genre pertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters.	13
7419417375	First person pov	point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns "I" and "we".	14
7419427465	Flashback	are interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.	15
7419432485	Flashfoward	a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.	16
7419442008	In media res	a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action.	17
7419454079	Limited omniscient pov	a narrator has limited knowledge of just one character, leaving other major or minor characters.	18
7419485010	Omniscient pov	when a narrator has knowledge about all the characters in a narrative, it is omniscient or all-knowing point of view.	19
7419486883	Linear structure	present stories in a logical manner by telling what happens from one point in time to the next without using flashbacks or flash-forwards and then returning to the present.	20