Ap literature & Composition Flashcards

8423561743	Allegory	A narrative or description having a second or symbolic meaning beneath the surface one	0
8423574202	Allusion	A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history	1
8423612430	anecdote	a short account of an interesting or humorous incident	2
8423627136	Artistic Unity	that condition of a successful literary work where by all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose	3
8423662344	Cacophony	a harsh discordant unpleasant sounding choice in arrangement of words	4
8423675665	Euphony	a smooth pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds	5
8423689188	Genre	A type or class as poetry, drama etc	6
8423704746	Imagery	the representation through language of sensory experience	7
8423715508	Mood	the pervading impression of a work	8
8423726717	prose	non metrical language (the opposite of verse)	9
8423754054	Theme	the main idea or message of a literary work	10
8423771102	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or him/herself	11
8423791223	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action occurs	12
8423796805	Symbol	Something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings	13
8423810485	Verse	Metrical language, the opposite of prose	14
8423813846	Voice	The distinctive style or manner or expression of an author or a character in a book	15
8423828235	Motif	Reoccurring action of images in a work to convey theme	16
8423844614	Antagonist	Character in a story or poem who opposes the main character.	17
8423858713	Character	any of the persons involved in a story or play	18
8423877279	Characterization	the process of conveying information about characters	19
8423889607	Direct presentation of character	a method of characterization in which the author by exposition or analysis tells us directly what a character is like	20
8423908699	Dynamic Character	a character who during the course of a story undergoes a permanent change in some aspect or outlook of character	21
8423923758	Flat character	a character whose character is summed up in one or two trait.	22
8423946681	foil	a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality	23
8423959427	hero	a man who is endowed with great courage and strength	24
8423982082	Hubris	Overbearing and excessive pride	25
8423992510	Indirect presentation of character	That method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like	26
8424002755	Protagonist	The main character	27
8424006061	Round character	A character whose character is complex and many sided	28
8424010661	Static character	A character who is the same sort of person through the entire work	29
8424015726	Stock character	A stereotyped character	30
8424020088	Tragic flaw	A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow	31
8424031645	Exposition	The part of a play (usually at the beginning) that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the actions	32
8424043089	Conflict	A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama	33
8424052850	Rising action	The development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax	34
8424063119	Climax	The turning point or high point of a plot	35
8424077886	falling action	immediately follows the climax and shows the aftereffects of the events in the climax	36
8424098832	denouement	(resolution) the conclusion of the story	37
8424121115	irony	a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy	38
8424138558	dramatic irony	an incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says and thinks and what the reader knows to be true	39
8424164912	irony of situation	a situation in which there is an incongruity in between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between actual situation and what would seem apropriate	40
8424209022	verbal irony	a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	41
8424240673	epistolary novel	a novel written as a series of documents	42
8424246317	first person point of view	the story is told by one of its characters	43
8424255053	flashback	a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative	44
8424273891	flashforward	a literary device in which a later event is inserted into a narrative	45
8424292274	in medius res	in to the (middle of things) a latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins at the midpoint or at the conclusion rather than at the beginning.	46
8424329568	limited omniscient point of view	the author tells the story using the third person but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character sees, thinks, feels	47
8424370389	linear structure	a plot that follows a straight moving cause and effect, chronological order.	48
8424393213	objective point of view	the author tells the story using the third person but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do. The author does not interpret their behavior	49
8424422534	omniscient point of view	the author tells the story using the third person knowing all and free to tell us anything.	50
8424430634	Narrator	The speaker or the voice of an oral or written work	51
8424442920	nonlinear structure	when the plot is presented in a non causal order with events presented in a random series	52
8424471571	point of view	the angle of vision in which a story is told	53
8424486229	stream of conscousness	narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author	54
8424515215	unreliable narrator	narrator whose credibility had been seriously compromised. Usually first person	55