Ap LIterature w2 Flashcards

8747652483	Exposition	The opening section of a narrative or dramatic structure in which characters, setting, theme, and conflict can be revealed	0
8747664806	Flashback	interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before that particular point in the story	1
8747677340	Foreshadowing	a hint given to the reader of what is to come	2
8747683307	Soliloquy	a dramatic convention that allows a character alone on stage to speak his or her thoughts aloud	3
8747692564	Pun	a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has a different meaning or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings	4
8747708867	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables or words	5
8747716933	Chiasmus	A scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reversed or backwards order. It involves taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "crisscross" system	6
8747747515	Double Entendre	figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways (straightforward or risque/ironic)	7
8747763906	Aside	in drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the soeakers words	8
8747781572	Inversion	also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies a verb before its subject ("Came the dawn")	9
8747800221	Syntax	the arrangement of words within a sentence	10
8747805484	Dramatic Irony	refers to a situation in which some things are not known to a character on stage but another character or the audience or the reader know	11