Ap Literature Flashcards

11579868479	Apostrophe	figure of speech used to address an imaginary character	0
11579882214	Internal rhyme	a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same lines	1
11579897850	Symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else	2
11579909425	Omniscient point of view	the point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person	3
11579946585	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	4
11579962428	Narrator	Person telling the story	5
11579970386	Falling action	events after the climax, leading to the resolution	6
11579993454	Round characters	character who has complex personality: contradicted person	7
11580015839	Rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	8
11598565069	Direct presentation of character	Author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story	9
11598592710	Assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	10
11599043478	Allusion	indirect of passing reference	11
11599063246	Characterization	process of revealing characters personality	12
11599073514	Syllabic verse	verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line	13
11599098908	Verbal irony	a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	14
11599113350	Connotation	secondary meaning to a word	15
11638136119	Euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	16
11638147143	Stanza	a group of lines in a poem	17
11638159470	Couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	18
11638169474	Rhythm	a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions	19
11638184567	Protagonist	main character	20
11638191750	Didactic writing	writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach	21
11638206854	Third person limited point of view	narrator tells the story from only one character's pov	22
11638218318	Deus ex machina	resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence	23
11638231496	End stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	24
11638244337	Irony	a contrast between expectation and reality	25
11638253637	Synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	26
11643930223	Approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	27
11643951321	Double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	28
11644012699	Flat character	story character who have no depth, usually has one personality or characteristic	29
11644029956	Plot	sequence of events in a story	30
11644040101	First person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself	31
11644056567	Consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	32
11644080361	Masculine rhyme	a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	33
11644096211	Blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	34
11644112039	Paraphrase	a restatement of a text or passage in your own words	35
11644144038	Metonymy	a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	36
11644170196	Italian Sonnet	a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	37
11644196369	Truncation	utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted	38
11644215920	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	39
11644224849	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	40
11644255927	Aside	when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage	41
11644283780	Foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse, stressed and unstressed syllables	42
11644340487	Dramatic irony	irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play	43
11644386442	Metaphor	a comparison without using like or as	44
11644413635	Melodrama	a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally	45
11644431752	Motivation	a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	46
11644452380	End rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	47
11644459830	Comedy	drama that is amusing or funny	48
11644481811	Catharsis	The release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	49
11644492140	Satire	a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies	50
11644525004	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	51
11644533021	Epiphany	when a character receives a spiritual insight into there life	52
11644570102	Solilquy	a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	53
11644578054	Theme	central idea of a work of literature	54
11644586127	Free verse	poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	55
11644604921	Setting	the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs	56
11644619033	Anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence, to have an artistic meaning	57
11644638353	Point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	58
11644643193	Sestet	6 line stanza	59
11644652874	Hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	60
11644707551	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	61
11644722987	Extended figure	a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem	62
11644751596	Objective point of view	a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events	63
11644773017	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	64
11655135529	Denouement	final outcome of the story	65
11655138523	Irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	66
11655150084	Tragedy	a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	67
11655164627	Figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	68
11655178845	Paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	69
11655209768	Hamartia	tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall	70
11655228692	Scansion	analysis of verse into metrical patterns	71
11655246684	Allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	72
11655274746	Quatrain	a four line stanza	73
11655281403	Oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	74
11655310120	Sonnet	14 line poem	75
11655330955	Dynamic character	changes throughout the story, through major conflict	76
11655341915	Climax	point where conflict hits its highest point	77
11655362163	Tercet	3 line stanza	78
11655370500	Antagonist	a hostile person who is opposed to another character	79
11655422147	Stream of consciousness	private thoughts of a character without commentary	80
11655439964	Imagery	description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	81
11655456939	Villanelle	a ninteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain	82
11655516420	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	83
11655539983	Alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	84
11655553812	Figurative language	language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling	85
11655567307	Static character	person who doesn't change throughout story keeps same personality	86
11655578297	Conflict	struggle between opposing forces	87
11655585865	Terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc	88
11655593701	Understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	89
11655604102	Cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	90
11655619259	Indirect presentation of character	the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says	91
11655629944	Dramatic exposition	prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world	92
11655639164	Caesura	pause in the middle of a line	93
11655651937	Onomatopoeia	a word that imitates the sound it represents	94
11655661313	Verse	a single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	95
11655676504	Form	external pattern or shape of a poem	96
11655685819	Feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	97
11655688448	Octave	8 line stanza	98
11655696210	Rising action	events leading up to the climax	99
11655704192	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	100