AP Literature Course Terms Flashcards

12283263436	tone	Attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject and audience	0
12283263437	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	1
12283263438	mood	emotional content of a scene or setting	2
12283263439	analogy	a comparison between 2 things	3
12283263440	conceit	an imaginative figure of speech drawing an analogy between 2 things	4
12283263441	metaphor	comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as	5
12283263442	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	6
12283263443	epic simile	an extended simile	7
12283263444	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	8
12283263445	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	9
12283263446	irony	a discrepancy between appearances and reality	10
12283263447	verbal irony	what is said is the opposite of what is meant	11
12283263448	dramatic irony	The audience knows something the characters do not	12
12283263449	situational irony	a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results	13
12283263450	allusion	a reference in literature to an event or person in history, myth, other piece of literature	14
12283263451	symbol	when a character, object, name or incident maintains its literal meaning while suggesting other meanings	15
12283263452	metonymy	something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	16
12283263453	Synecdoche	a part of a thing represents that thing itself	17
12283263454	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	18
12283263455	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction	19
12283263456	pun	A play on words	20
12283263457	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	21
12283263458	Hyperbole	exaggeration	22
12283263459	Understatement	A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means	23
12283263460	litotes	A form of understatement that involves negating it (making it negative)	24
12283263461	Alliteration	Repetition of some consonant sounds at the beginning of words	25
12283263462	consonance	neighboring words repeat the same consonant sound not at the beginning of the word but at middle or end	26
12283263463	Assonance	repetition of the internal vowel sounds	27
12283263464	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	28
12283274811	parallelism	balance in syntactical expression; repeated grammatical patterns in phrases	29
12283274812	Anithesis	a direct opposite, a contrast	30
12283274813	inverted syntax	Reversal in the expected order of words	31
12283274814	cumulative sentence	a sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	32
12283274815	periodic sentence	sentence that begins with details, qualifications and builds toward the main clause	33
12283274816	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement and ends with a period	34
12283274817	interrogative sentence	a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark	35
12283274818	exclamatory sentence	a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark	36
12283274819	imperative sentence	gives a direct command	37
12283274820	subject	A noun that performs the action of the verb	38
12283274821	direct object	a word representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed	39
12283274822	indirect object	a word representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, rephrased as prepositional phrase	40
12283274823	Appositive	A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it, often are set off by commas, parentheses or dashes	41
12283274824	abstract	lacks vivid detail	42
12283274825	concrete	specific detail, appeals to 5 senses	43
12283274826	Conntotation	the range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which a word or phrase commonly suggests or implies	44
12283274827	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	45
12283274828	Dialect	local or regional characteristics of a language	46
12283274829	diction	word choice	47
12283274830	anecdote	short story	48
12283274831	Epithet	an adjective or phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing	49
12283274832	motif	a pattern of identical or similar images, actions or ideas throughout a passage	50
12283322913	exposition	The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work	51
12283325570	inciting incident	starts the action or sets the plot	52
12283328810	rising action	The development of a conflict	53
12283331058	climax	the turning point of the story	54
12283337471	anticlimax	serious to trivial to achieve a comic, satiric or ironic effect	55
12283343429	denouement	the resolution	56
12283344961	setting	The time AND place of a story	57
12283344990	in media res	in the middle of things	58
12283347062	deus ex machina	god from the machine superhuman force resolves a conflict	59
12283351287	flashback	interrupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past	60
12283357990	frame narrative	a story within a story	61
12283359729	Foreshadowing	A warning or indication of a future event	62
12283362744	epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	63
12283362745	Catharsis	Emotional release of fear or pity	64
12283366552	Protagonist	main character	65
12283366553	hero	traditional qualities of a true hero	66
12283368750	byronic hero	Anti hero who is a romanticized but wicked character	67
12283370530	antihero	protagonist who lacks typical moral characteristics of a true hero	68
12283376649	tragic hero	brings his own downfall	69
12283383971	Antagonist	The character opposing the main character	70
12283383972	dynamic charcater	character that changes as a result of the stories events	71
12283387961	static character	A character who does not change during the story	72
12283391361	flat character	lacks complexity, may be a stereotype	73
12283395273	round character	multi-dimensional character	74
12283397735	Hamartia	tragic flaw	75
12283397736	foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	76
12283399459	archetype / stereotype/ stock character	character does not grow or change	77
12283404270	speaker	The voice talking in a poem	78
12283407756	Narrator	Person telling the story	79
12283407757	first person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself. uses me, my, I	80
12283411682	unrealiable narrator	may be biased, cannot trust his/her views	81
12283415274	limited 3rd person point of view	reader's info is limited to what only one character feels, thinks, and observes	82
12283419434	Omniscient 3rd Person point of view	a narrator is all-knowing and knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story	83
12283421496	interior monologue	writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head, half thoughts	84
12283424780	dramatic monologue	when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience	85
12283427208	Soliquoy	a long speech in a drama that is spoken by a character alone on stage	86
12283429026	chorus	A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.	87
12283430956	stream of consciousness	A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.	88
12283432877	prose	stories, essays, novels, plays	89
12283437178	verse	poetry	90
12283437229	Narrative	story line	91
12283438980	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	92
12283441077	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story, main character recognizes his or her place and role in the world	93
12283445233	comedy	A humorous work of drama	94
12283447392	satire	belittling a subject by making it ridiculous	95
12283449370	comedy of manners	Makes fun of high society	96
12283453303	farce	ridiculous situations, horseplay, crude dialogue	97
12283457048	parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	98
12283458881	dystopian	a futuristic society that is imperfect	99
12283460729	utopian	idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society	100
12283462236	epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	101
12283463859	fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	102
12283466092	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	103
12283467647	Existentialism	individuals have free will and are entirely responsible for their actions	104