AP English Literature Terms_Leasure Set 5 Flashcards

sources of definitions are The Princeton Review (TPR) and Barron's AP study guides. and class notes that Mr. Enns distributed :)

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13822998467	novel	a tale in which a young protagonist experiences an introduction to adulthood. the character may develop understanding via disillusionment, education, doses of reality, or any other experiences that alter his/her emotional/intellectual maturity. e.g. Invisible Man	0
13822998468	metaphysical conceit	a type of conceit that occurs only in metaphysical poetry	1
13822998471	mock epic	a parody form that deals with mundane events and ironically treats them as worthy of epic poetry	2
13822998488	periodic sentence	a sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase; sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end	3
13822998490	melodrama	a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure.	4
13822998492	maxim	a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth	5
13822998493	metaphor	a figure of speech that compares unlike objects	6
13822998494	metaphysical poetry	the work of poets, particularly those of 17th c., that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life	7
13822998495	meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry	8
13822998496	metonymy	a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. e.g. "The White House says..."	9
13822998497	mode	the general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature	10
13822998498	montage	a quick succession of images/impressions used to express an idea	11
13822998499	mood	the emotional tone in a work of literature	12
13822998500	nemesis	the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty	13
13822998504	moral	a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature	14
13822998505	motif	a phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature.	15
13822998506	muse	one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. the imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer	16
13822998507	myth	an imaginary story that has become accepted part of the cultural or religious tradition of a group/society. often used to explain natural phenomena.	17
13822998508	narrative	a form of verse or prose that tells a story	18
13822998509	naturalism	a term often used as a synonym for "realism"; also a view of experiences that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic	19
13822998510	non sequitur	a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before	20
13822998511	novel of manners	a novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group	21
13822998516	parable	like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived	22
13822998517	paradox	a statement that seems self-contradictory yet true	23
13822998518	parallelism	repeated syntactical similarities used for effect	24
13822998519	parody	an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject	25
13822998520	paraphrase	a version of a text put into simpler, everyday, words	26
13822998521	pastoral	a work of literature dealing with rural life	27
13822998522	pathetic fallacy	faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects	28
13822998523	pathos	that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	29
13822998524	pentameter	a verse with five poetic feet per line	30
13822998525	persona	the role/facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, viewer, or the world at large; the narrator in a non-first-person novel	31
13822998526	personification	giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form	32
13822998527	plot	the interrelationship among the events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution	33
13822998528	picaresque novel	an episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. e.g. "Don Quixote", "Moll Flanders"	34
13822998529	point of view	the perspective from which the action of a novel in presented.	35
13822998532	objective narrator	3rd person narr. who only reports on what would be visible to a camera, doesn't know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it.	36
13822998533	protagonist	the main character in a work of literature	37
13822998534	prelude	an introductory poem to a longer work of verse	38
13822998535	pun	the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings	39
13822998536	pseudonym	also called "pen name", a false name or alias used by writers. i.e Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) George Orwell (Eric Blair)	40
13822998582	parenthesis	insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	41
13822998583	polysyndeton	the deliberate use of many conjunctions. its effect is to slow down the rhythm of the sentence	42