AP Literature Terminology 4 Flashcards

10939547309	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 or tell us their private thoughts or feelings.	0
10939547310	Narrator	the speaker or the "voice" of an oral or written work.	1
10939552096	Nonlinear Structure	is when the plot is presented in a non-causal order, with events presented in a random series jumping to and from the main plot with flashbacks or flash forwards; or in any other manner that is either not chronological or not cause and effect.	2
10939554623	Unreliable Narrator	a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised.	3
10939554624	Anticlimax	A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential	4
10939557776	Dilemma	A situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable	5
10939557777	Deus Ex Machina	The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence	6
10939569191	Indeterminate Ending	An ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved	7
10939572777	Inversion	A reversal in order, nature, or effect	8
10939572778	Paradox	A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements	9
10939575274	Prologue	An introduction or a preface	10
10939581749	Red Herring	a literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item or person of significance	11
10939581750	Suspense	That quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end	12
10939588405	Suspension of Disbelief	An unspoken agreement between writer and reader: "I agree to believe your make-believe if it entertains me."	13
10939588406	Subplot	A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work	14
10939588407	Fable	A short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing animal characters that act like human beings	15
10939591788	Satire	A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice.	16
10939591789	Myth	any story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way that it is.	17
10939596793	Parable	A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson	18