ap lit terms

Question 1

aside

Answer 1

a brief speech in which a charcter turns from the person being adressed to adressing the audience

Question 2

dialogue

Answer 2

a conversations between characters

Question 3

dialect

Answer 3

a regional variety of language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, vocab

Question 4

proverb

Answer 4

a shorth/pithy saying that expresses a basic truth

Question 5

pun

Answer 5

a play on words

Question 6

solioquy

Answer 6

a character relaying their internal feelings to the audience

Question 7

understatment

Answer 7

acting as if something is lesser than what it is

Question 8

flash back

Answer 8

a series of events going back in time

Question 9

flash forward

Answer 9

a later event inserted

Question 10

in medias res

Answer 10

a latin phrase where the relation of the story begins at the mid or end point of the story

Question 11

limited omniscent POV

Answer 11

author using third person but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character feels/thinks/see

Question 12

linear structure

Answer 12

a straight moving cause/effect/ and chronological order

Question 13

objective POV

Answer 13

does not interpret feelings just what the character is doing

Question 14

omniscent POV

Answer 14

author knows all

Question 15

non linear

Answer 15

events presented in a random series

Question 16

stream of consciousness

Answer 16

private thoughts of the character

Question 17

unreliabe narrator

Answer 17

a narrator thats POV and details are compromised, usually first person