AP Literature Vocabulary List 12 Flashcards
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| 10500035257 | Terza rima | An interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc. | 0 | |
| 10500035258 | Tetrameter | a metrical line containing four feet | 1 | |
| 10500035259 | Theme | the central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work | 2 | |
| 10500035260 | Third-person limited point of view | This is a point of view in which the narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts of only one character, who is referred to as "he" or "she." | 3 | |
| 10500035261 | Tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story/poem, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers). | 4 | |
| 10500035262 | Total Meaning | the total experience communicated by a poem | 5 | |
| 10500035263 | Tragedy | drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance | 6 | |
| 10500035264 | Trimeter | a metrical line containing three feet | 7 | |
| 10500035265 | Triple Meter | a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables | 8 | |
| 10500035266 | Trochaic meter | a meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | 9 | |
| 10500035267 | Trochee | a metrical unit consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable | 10 | |
| 10500035268 | Truncation | omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line | 11 | |
| 10500035269 | Understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants | 12 | |
| 10500035270 | Unhappy ending | an ending that turns out unhappily for a sympathetic protagonist | 13 | |
| 10500035271 | Verse | Metrical language | 14 | |
| 10500035272 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain | 15 | |
| 10500035273 | Theater in the Round | The presentation of plays on a stage surrounded by the audience. | 16 | |
| 10500035274 | Theater of Cruelty | Drama that subordinates words to action, gesture, and sound in an effort to overwhelm the spectators and liberate their instinctual preoccupations with crime, cruelty, and eroticism. | 17 | |
| 10500035275 | Theater of the Absurd | An Avant-garde kind of drama that represents the absurdity of the human condition by abandoning rational devices and realistic form. | 18 | |
| 10500035276 | Tragedy of Blood | It works out the theme of revenge and retribution through murder, assassination, mutilation, and carnage. | 19 | |
| 10500035277 | Tragic Flaw | The theory that there is a flaw, error, or defect in the tragic hero that is the cause of his or her downfall. | 20 | |
| 10500035278 | Tragicomedy | A play that employs a plot suitable to tragedy but ends happily, like a comedy. | 21 | |
| 10500035279 | Transcendentalism | A reliance on the intuition and the conscience, a form of idealism; a philosophical romanticism reaching America a generation or two after it developed in Europe. | 22 | |
| 10500035280 | Verisimilitude | The semblance of truth. The term has been used in criticism to indicate the degree to which a writer faithfully creates the appearance or semblance of the truth. | 23 | |
| 10500035281 | Volta | A shift, a turn in thought: from question to answer, problem to solution. | 24 |