AP Literature & Composition (Prose) Flashcards

13894819305	Allegory	A narrative having a second meaning	0
13894819306	Allusion	A reference to something in previous literature	1
13894819307	Anecdote	A short interesting or humorous incident	2
13894819308	Artistic Unity	Literary elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose	3
13894819309	Cacophony	A unpleasant-sounding choice	4
13894819310	Euphony	A pleasant-sounding choice	5
13894819311	Genre	A type of class	6
13894819312	Imagery	representation through language of a sensory experience	7
13894819313	Mood	The impression of a work	8
13894819314	Morality	A rule of a conduct	9
13894819315	Prose	Non-metrical language	10
13894819316	Theme	The main idea of a literary work.	11
13894819317	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude	12
13894819318	Topic	The subject matter of a literary work.	13
13894819319	Setting	The time and place in which the actions of the story occurs	14
13894819320	Symbol	Something that means more than what it is	15
13894819321	Verse	Metrical language	16
13894819322	Voice	The distinctive style of an author or character in a book.	17
13894819323	Antagonist	Character in a story who opposes the main character	18
13894819324	Character	Any of the persons involved in a story or play	19
13894819325	Characterization	The process of conveying information about characters	20
13894819326	Deuteragonist	a foil or eventual antagonist	21
13894819327	Direct Presentation of Character	A method of characterization in which the author tells us directly what a character is like	22
13894819328	Dynamic Character	A character who undergoes a permanent change	23
13894819329	Flat Character	A character is summed up in one or two traits	24
13894819330	Foil	a character who contrasts with another character to highlight features of the other character's personality	25
13894819331	Hero	A man who is endowed with great courage	26
13894819332	Hubris	Overbearing and excessive pride	27
13894819333	Indirect Presentation of Character	When the author shows us a character in action	28
13894819334	Protagonist	main character	29
13894819335	Round Character	A character is complex and many sided.	30
13894819336	Static Character	A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as at the beginning	31
13894819337	Stock Character	A stereotyped character.	32
13894819338	Tragic Flaw	A flaw in the character of the protagonist	33
13894819339	Aside	When the character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience	34
13894819340	Colloquial	Informal, conversational language	35
13894819341	Dialogue	Conversation between characters in a narrative.	36
13894819342	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation	37
13894819343	Diction	Word choice	38
13894819344	Euphemism	Substituting a mild term for an offensive one	39
13894819345	Figure of Speech	Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way	40
13894819346	Hyperbole	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used	41
13894819347	Invective	Abusive language.	42
13894819348	Monologue	A dramatic soliloquy	43
13894819349	Proverb	A short saying that expresses a basic truth	44
13894819350	Pun	A play on words	45
13894819351	Sarcasm	Bitter or cutting speech	46
13894819352	Soliloquy	a device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself	47
13894819353	Slang	A kind of language that is very casual	48
13894819354	Understatement	A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means	49
13894819355	Exposition	The part of literature that provides the information needed.	50
13894819356	Conflict	A clash of actions or desires in the plot of a story	51
13894819357	Rising Action	That development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax	52
13894819358	Climax	The turning point of a plot	53
13894819359	Falling Action	The falling action immediately follows the climax and shows the aftereffects of the events in the climax	54
13894819360	Denouement	Resolution; Conflicts are resolved	55
13894819361	Irony	A situation involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.	56
13894819362	Dramatic Irony	An incongruity of discrepancy between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true	57
13894819363	Irony of Situation	A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality	58
13894819364	Verbal Irony	When what is said is the opposite of what is meant	59
13894819365	Epistolary novel	a novel written as a series of documents.	60
13894819366	First Person Point of View	The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person	61
13894819367	Flashback	A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative.	62
13894819368	Flashforward	A literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative.	63
13894819369	In Medias Res	(into the middle of things) is a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique where the story begins at the mid point or end.	64
13894819370	Limited Omniscient Point of View	Using the third person, the author tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears.	65
13894819371	Linear Structure	a plot that is in chronological order	66
13894819372	Objective Point of View	Using the third person, the author is limited to reporting what the characters say or do	67
13894819373	Omniscient Point of View	Using third person, the author knows all and is free to tell us anything	68
13894819374	Narrator	the speaker of a written work.	69
13894819375	Nonlinear Structure	when the plot is in any manner that is not chronological	70
13894819376	Point of View	The angle of vision from which a story is told.	71
13894819377	Stream of Consciousness	Narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary by the author	72
13894819378	Unreliable Narrator	a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised	73
13894819379	Anticlimax	A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous	74
13894819380	Catastrophe	The concluding action of a classical tragedy containing the resolution of the plot	75
13894819381	Comic Relief	A humorous incident introduced to relieve dramatic tension	76
13894819382	Dilemma	A situation in which a character must choose between two undesirable courses of action	77
13894819383	Deus Ex Machina	(god from the machine) The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence	78
13894819384	Indeterminate Ending	An ending in which the conflict is left unresolved	79
13894819385	Inversion	A reversal in order, nature, or effect	80
13894819386	Motivation	An emotion that acts as an incitement to action	81
13894819387	Mystery	An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation	82
13894819388	Paradox	A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory elements	83
13894819389	Plot	The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed	84
13894819390	Plot Manipulation	A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist	85
13894819391	Plot Device	An object, character, or event whose only reason for existing is to advance the story	86
13894819392	Prologue	An introduction or a preface	87
13894819393	Red Herring	a literary tactic of diverting attention away from a person of significance	88
13894819394	Scene	In which the setting is fixed and the time continuous	89
13894819395	Suspense	That quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next	90
13894819396	Suspension of Disbelief	to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable	91
13894819397	Subplot	A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work	92
13894819398	Surprise	An unexpected turn in the development of a plot	93
13894819399	Comedy	A type of drama that emphasises human limitation rather than human greatness.	94
13894819400	Comedy of Manners	Comedy that ridicules the manners of a certain segment of society	95
13894819401	Satire	A kind of literature that uses mockery to expose people's stupidity	96
13894819402	Scornful Comedy	A type of comedy whose main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly.	97
13894819403	Romantic Comedy	A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties	98
13894819404	Farce	A type of comedy that relies on unrealistic situations	99
13894819405	Escapist Literature	Literature written purely for entertainment.	100
13894819406	Fable	A short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point.	101
13894819407	Fantasy	A kind of fiction that goes beyond the boundaries of known reality	102
13894819408	Interpretive literature	Literature that provides valid insights into the nature of human life	103
13894819409	Myth	any story that attempts to explain how the world was created	104
13894819410	Novel	a book of long narrative in literary prose.	105
13894819411	Novella	A prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel.	106
13894819412	Parable	A simple story illustrating a moral lesson	107
13894819413	Tragedy	When the protagonist falls to ruin	108