Literary Concepts AP Literature 61-90 Flashcards

10718945760	Personification	a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept	0
10718945761	Plot	The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed	1
10718945762	Point of View	the angle of vision from which a story is told	2
10718945763	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry	3
10718945764	Protagonist	The central character in a story	4
10718945765	Purpose	One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing.	5
10718945766	Quatrain	(1) A four-line stanza. (2) A four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.	6
10718945767	Resolution	End of the story where loose ends are tied up	7
10718945768	Reversal	The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.	8
10718945769	Rhyme	Interior: Rhyme within a single line or verse Slant: The vowels or consonants of stressed syllables are identical	9
10718945770	Romanticism	a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.	10
10718945771	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	11
10718945772	Scan	To analyze a poem's meter	12
10718945773	Sestet	(1) A six-line stanza (2) The last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model	13
10718945774	Simile	A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike	14
10718945775	Soliloquy	a speech in which a character is alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud	15
10718945776	Sonnet	A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types	16
10718945777	Speaker	the voice of a literary work	17
10718945778	Stage Direction	A playwright's written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play.	18
10718945779	Stock Character	A stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous fiction	19
10718945780	Stream of consciousness	narrative that presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author	20
10718945781	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 as well	21
10718945782	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	22
10718945783	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	23
10718945784	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself	24
10718945785	Tragedy	A type of drama, opposed to comedy, which depicts the causally related events that lead to the downfall and suffering of the protagonist, a person of unusual moral or intellectual stature or outstanding abilities	25
10718945786	Understatement	a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants	26
10718945787	Unreliable Narrator	a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted	27
10719006290	Rhythm	any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	28