AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

9816357535	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9816357536	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9816357537	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9816357538	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9816357539	antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	4
9816357540	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	5
9816357541	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	6
9816357542	aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	7
9816357543	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	8
9816357544	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	9
9816357545	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	10
9816357546	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	11
9816357547	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	12
9816357548	flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	13
9816357549	round character	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	14
9816357550	dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	15
9816357551	static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	16
9816357552	characterization	process of revealing characters personality	17
9816357553	climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	18
9816357554	comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	19
9816357555	conflict	struggle between opposing forces	20
9816357556	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	21
9816357557	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	22
9816357558	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	23
9816357559	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	24
9816357560	denouement	final outcome of the story	25
9816357561	deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	26
9816357562	didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	27
9816357563	direct presentation of character	author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	28
9816357564	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	29
9816357565	dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	30
9816357566	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	31
9816357567	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	32
9816357568	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	33
9816357569	epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into they life	34
9816357570	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	35
9816357571	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	36
9816357572	falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	37
9816357573	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	38
9816357574	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	39
9816357575	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
9816357576	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	41
9816357577	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	42
9816357578	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	43
9816357579	hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	44
9816357580	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
9816357581	indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	46
9816357582	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9816357583	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	48
9816357584	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	49
9816357585	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	50
9816357586	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	51
9816357587	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	52
9816357588	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	53
9816357589	melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	54
9816357590	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	55
9816357591	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	56
9816357592	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	57
9816357593	motivation	A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	58
9816357594	narrator	Person telling the story	59
9816357595	octave	8 line stanza	60
9816357596	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	61
9816357597	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	62
9816357598	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	63
9816357599	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	64
9816357600	paraphrase	A restatement of a text or passage in your own words.	65
9816357601	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	66
9816357602	plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9816357603	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9816357604	omniscient point of view	The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.	69
9816357605	third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's point of view	70
9816357606	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	71
9816357607	objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story with no comment on any characters or events.	72
9816357608	protagonist	Main character	73
9816357609	quatrain	A four-line stanza	74
9816357610	rhythm	a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound	75
9816357611	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	76
9816357612	rising action	Events leading up to the climax	77
9816357613	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	78
9816357614	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	79
9816357615	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	80
9816357616	sestet	six-line stanza	81
9816357617	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	82
9816357618	simile	A comparison of unlike things using a comparison word such as "like" or "as"	83
9816357619	soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	84
9816357620	sonnet	14-line poem	85
9816357621	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9816357622	stream of consciousness	a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.	87
9816357623	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	88
9816357624	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	89
9816357625	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	90
9816357626	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	91
9816357627	tercet	three-line stanza	92
9816357628	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	93
9816357629	theme	Central idea of a work of literature, a generalization about the human condition	94
9816357630	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	95
9816357631	tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	96
9816357632	truncation	the omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse.	97
9816357633	understatement	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	98
9816357634	verse	A single line of poetry. Also, writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	99
9816357635	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	100