AP Literature & Composition Unit 2 Flashcards

12015595549	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	0
12015595550	Irony	Verbal Irony: Use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Dramatic Irony: When the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of. Situational Irony: Discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.	1
12015610189	Gothic Novel	A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action	2
12015615985	Frame Story	A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story	3
12015615986	Antihero	Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes.	4
12015622162	Didactic	intended to teach	5
12015626317	Romanticism	1. An artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe. 2. Characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature. 3. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution 4. Had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinker influencing liberalism, radicalism, conservatism, and nationalism.	6
12015632837	Symbolists	1. The link between romanticism and modernism 2. Yearn for transcendence, but more decadent and sensual 3. Seem obscure in the beginning but contain deep symbols and intuitive associations	7
12015646547	Victorianism	19th cen. social ideology. Named after Queen Victoria. Stressed self-control (etiquette), optimism (think highly of themselves), sexual repression.	8
12015651606	Realism	A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be	9
12015658701	Synaesthesia	the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another	10
12015670127	Dramatic Monologue	a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.	11
12015673951	Epistolary Novel	a novel in letter form written by one or more of the characters	12
12015781698	Qualities of Romantic Poetry	1. Break from set rules 2. Interest in Rural Life 3. Presentation of Common Life 4. Love of Liberty and Freedom	13
12015805157	SOAPSTone	Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone	14