AP Literature & Composition (Prose) Flashcards

14893198061	Allegory	A narrative having a second meaning	0
14893198062	Allusion	A reference to something in previous literature	1
14893198063	Anecdote	A short interesting or humorous incident	2
14893198064	Artistic Unity	Literary elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose	3
14893198065	Cacophony	A unpleasant-sounding choice	4
14893198066	Euphony	A pleasant-sounding choice	5
14893198067	Genre	A type of class	6
14893198068	Imagery	representation through language of a sensory experience	7
14893198069	Mood	The impression of a work	8
14893198070	Morality	A rule of a conduct	9
14893198071	Prose	Non-metrical language	10
14893198072	Theme	The main idea of a literary work.	11
14893198073	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude	12
14893198074	Topic	The subject matter of a literary work.	13
14893198075	Setting	The time and place in which the actions of the story occurs	14
14893198076	Symbol	Something that means more than what it is	15
14893198077	Verse	Metrical language	16
14893198078	Voice	The distinctive style of an author or character in a book.	17
14893198079	Antagonist	Character in a story who opposes the main character	18
14893198080	Character	Any of the persons involved in a story or play	19
14893198081	Characterization	The process of conveying information about characters	20
14893198082	Deuteragonist	a foil or eventual antagonist	21
14893198083	Direct Presentation of Character	A method of characterization in which the author tells us directly what a character is like	22
14893198084	Dynamic Character	A character who undergoes a permanent change	23
14893198085	Flat Character	A character is summed up in one or two traits	24
14893198086	Foil	a character who contrasts with another character to highlight features of the other character's personality	25
14893198087	Hero	A man who is endowed with great courage	26
14893198088	Hubris	Overbearing and excessive pride	27
14893198089	Indirect Presentation of Character	When the author shows us a character in action	28
14893198090	Protagonist	main character	29
14893198091	Round Character	A character is complex and many sided.	30
14893198092	Static Character	A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as at the beginning	31
14893198093	Stock Character	A stereotyped character.	32
14893198094	Tragic Flaw	A flaw in the character of the protagonist	33
14893198095	Aside	When the character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience	34
14893198096	Colloquial	Informal, conversational language	35
14893198097	Dialogue	Conversation between characters in a narrative.	36
14893198098	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation	37
14893198099	Diction	Word choice	38
14893198100	Euphemism	Substituting a mild term for an offensive one	39
14893198101	Figure of Speech	Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
14893198102	Hyperbole	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used	41
14893198103	Invective	Abusive language.	42
14893198104	Monologue	A dramatic soliloquy	43
14893198105	Proverb	A short saying that expresses a basic truth	44
14893198106	Pun	A play on words	45
14893198107	Sarcasm	Bitter or cutting speech	46
14893198108	Soliloquy	a device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself	47
14893198109	Slang	A kind of language that is very casual	48
14893198110	Understatement	A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means	49
14893198111	Exposition	The part of literature that provides the information needed.	50
14893198112	Conflict	A clash of actions or desires in the plot of a story	51
14893198113	Rising Action	That development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax	52
14893198114	Climax	The turning point of a plot	53
14893198115	Falling Action	immediately follows the climax and shows the aftereffects of the events in the climax	54
14893198116	Denouement	Resolution; Conflicts are resolved	55
14893198117	Irony	A situation involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.	56
14893198118	Dramatic Irony	An incongruity of discrepancy between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true	57
14893198119	Irony of Situation	A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality	58
14893198120	Verbal Irony	When what is said is the opposite of what is meant	59
14893198121	Epistolary novel	a novel written as a series of documents.	60
14893198122	First Person Point of View	The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person	61
14893198123	Flashback	A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative.	62
14893198124	Flashforward	A literary device in which an later event is inserted into a narrative.	63
14893198125	In Medias Res	(into the middle of things) is a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique where the story begins at the mid point or end.	64
14893198126	Limited Omniscient Point of View	Using the third person, the author tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears.	65
14893198127	Linear Structure	a plot that is in chronological order	66
14893198128	Objective Point of View	Using the third person, the author is limited to reporting what the characters say or do	67
14893198129	Omniscient Point of View	Using third person, the author knows all and is free to tell us anything	68
14893198130	Narrator	the speaker of a written work.	69
14893198131	Nonlinear Structure	when the plot is in any manner that is not chronological	70
14893198132	Point of View	The angle of vision from which a story is told.	71
14893198133	Stream of Consciousness	Narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary by the author	72
14893198134	Unreliable Narrator	a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised	73
14893198135	Anticlimax	A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous	74
14893198136	Catastrophe	The concluding action of a classical tragedy containing the resolution of the plot	75
14893198137	Comic Relief	A humorous incident introduced to relieve dramatic tension	76
14893198138	Dilemma	A situation in which a character must choose between two undesirable courses of action	77
14893198139	Deus Ex Machina	(god from the machine) The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence	78
14893198140	Indeterminate Ending	An ending in which the conflict is left unresolved	79
14893198141	Inversion	A reversal in order, nature, or effect	80
14893198142	Motivation	An emotion that acts as an incitement to action	81
14893198143	Mystery	An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation	82
14893198144	Paradox	A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory elements	83
14893198145	Plot	The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed	84
14893198146	Plot Manipulation	A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist	85
14893198147	Plot Device	An object, character, or event whose only reason for existing is to advance the story	86
14893198148	Prologue	An introduction or a preface	87
14893198149	Red Herring	a literary tactic of diverting attention away from a person of significance	88
14893198150	Scene	In which the setting is fixed and the time continuous	89
14893198151	Suspense	That quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next	90
14893198152	Suspension of Disbelief	to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable	91
14893198153	Subplot	A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work	92
14893198154	Surprise	An unexpected turn in the development of a plot	93
14893198155	Comedy	A type of drama that emphasises human limitation rather than human greatness.	94
14893198156	Comedy of Manners	Comedy that ridicules the manners of a certain segment of society	95
14893198157	Satire	A kind of literature that uses mockery to expose people's stupidity	96
14893198158	Scornful Comedy	A type of comedy whose main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly.	97
14893198159	Romantic Comedy	A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties	98
14893198160	Farce	A type of comedy that relies on unrealistic situations	99
14893198161	Escapist Literature	Literature written purely for entertainment.	100
14893198162	Fable	A short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point.	101
14893198163	Fantasy	A kind of fiction that goes beyond the boundaries of known reality	102
14893198164	Interpretive literature	Literature that provides valid insights into the nature of human life	103
14893198165	Myth	any story that attempts to explain how the world was created	104
14893198166	Novel	a book of long narrative in literary prose.	105
14893198167	Novella	A prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.	106
14893198168	Parable	A simple story illustrating a moral lesson	107
14893198169	Tragedy	When the protagonist falls to ruin	108