AP Literature #3 Flashcards

13137937943	Mood	An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected.	0
13137878595	Motivation	reasons for a character's behavior	1
13137886653	Motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work	2
13137899160	Metonymy	when a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it	3
13137998528	Onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sounds echo their sense	4
13138024647	Oxymoron	combining opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	5
13137948269	Parallelism	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	6
13137795468	Parody	a work that makes fun of another work through imitation	7
13137804179	Parable	a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson	8
13137833687	Paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth	9
13137962589	Paratactic sentence	A sentence that simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences	10
13137814466	Personification	when an object or animal is given human feeling, thoughts, or attitudes	11
13137846446	Periodic sentence	sentence that places the main idea at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements	12
13137858952	Polysyndeton	sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas	13
13137867034	Protagonist	central character in a story, the one who initiates the action	14
13137911956	Pun	a "play on words"	15
13137911957	Plot	the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline	16
13138008818	Quatrain	a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem	17
13138035988	Refrain	a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated several times in a poem	18
13138048489	Rhetoric	art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse	19
13138169581	Rhythm	alteration of stresses and unstressed syllables in language	20
13138048491	Romance	a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a successful quest	21
13138062742	Satire	a writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions to bring about a change	22
13138071199	Simile	comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles	23
13138082240	Soliloquy	a long speech made by a character in a play while alone on stage	24
13138107529	Stream of Conciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind	25
13138098295	Style	a writer's distinctive use of diction, tone, and syntax	26
13138121407	Symbol	something that represents both itself and something else	27
13138121408	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole	28
13138142799	Syntactic permutation	sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex	29
13138150855	Talltale	an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable	30
13138160407	Telegraphic sentence	A sentence shorter than five words in length	31
13138177504	Theme	the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work	32
13138191152	Tone	the attitude a writer takes towards something	33
13138193543	Tricolor sentence	sentence of three parts of equal importance and length	34
13138216651	Understatement	A statement that says less than what is meant	35
13138219095	Vernacular	the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality	36