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AP Lit Terms Flashcards

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major unit of action in a drama or a play

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Act

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a story where something or someone represents an idea about life; often have morals involved

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Allegory

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repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words

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Alliteration

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reference in a work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events

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Allusion

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comparison of two or more alike objects suggest if they are alike in one way, they will be alike in other ways as well

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Analogy

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Brief account of an event or incident that usually is said to make a point or enterain

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Anecdote

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Actors speech, that is directed to the audience, that isn’t supposed to be heard by other actors on stage

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Aside

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Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry

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Assonance

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Particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing.

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Audience

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Writer of a book, article, or other text

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Author

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the reason the author created a particular work

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Authors Purpose

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12
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Form of nonfiction where a person tells the story of their life

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Autobiography

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Story of a person’s life that is written by someone else

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Biography

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Poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited

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Ballad

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank Verse

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Pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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Two events are related; one event brings about causes and the other brings abput effects

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Cause and Effect

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Person who is responsible for thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature. Every one has their own personality.

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Character

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Character who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character in some way. Doesnt have to ne a person just something that prevents “happily ever after”

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Antagonist

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Characters who are cental to the plot of a story; usually dynamic and round

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Main Characters

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A less important character who interacts with main characters, helping move the plot along and providingbbackground for the story, usually static and flat

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Minor Characters

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22
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All techniques that writers use to create characters

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Characterization

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Characters personality

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Character trait

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Author directly states a characters traits or makes direct comments about a characters nature

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Direct Characterization

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Character who changes throughout the course of the story

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Dymanic Character

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Character about whom little information is provided

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Flat Character

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Author doesnt directly state a characters traits; they leave that for the reader to conclude

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Indirect Characterization

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Character who is fully described by author

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Round Character

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Character who doesnt change or who changes very little in a story

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Static Character

30
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Order in which events happen in time

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Chronological Order

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Readers process of pausing occasionally while reading to quickly review what he or she understands

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Clarifying

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Type of figurative language. Containing an overused unoriginal expression

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Cliche

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Dramatic work that is often light and often humorous in tone. It usually ends happily

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Comedy

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Process of identifiying similarities

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Comparison

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Type of poetry that uses ots physical or visual formto present its message

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Concrete Poetry

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Tension or problem in the story; a struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

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Dominate or most important conflict in the story

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Central Conflict

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Problem or struggle that exists between the main character and an outside force

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External Conflict

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Problem that takes place in the main characters mind

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Internal Conflict

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Readers process of rearing the content of a literary work to his/her own knowledge and experience

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Connecting

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Idea, feelings associated by a word opposed to its dictionary definition

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Connotation

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Reletition of consonant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry

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Consonance

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Hints or suggestions that surround unfamiliar words/phrases and clarify their meaning

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Context clues

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Process of pointing out differences between things

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Contrast

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a rhymed pair of lines in a poem. One of Shakespeare’s trademarks was to end a sonnet with one of these.

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Couplet

46
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Opposite of connotation in that it is the exact or dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

47
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form of language that is spoken in a particular place by a particular group of people

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Dialect

48
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conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. A dialogue occurs in most works of literature

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Dialogue

49
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meant to be performed by actors before an audience, characters actions or dialogues tell a story

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Drama

50
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combining several pieces of information to make an inference

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Drawing Conclusions

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Literary device that is used when a character revels his/her innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story line

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Dramatic Monologue

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type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died.

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Elegy

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in poetry, incomplete syntax at the end of a line, meaning running over into the next line without terminal punctuation

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Enjambment

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short poem or verse that seeks to ridiculed throughout, usually with witticism or sarcasm

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Epigram

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