AP Vocab 151-180 Flashcards
Plot, Denouement
Resolution of the plot.
Plot, Exposition
The initial part of a play or work when background information is presented to the audience; one of the four major types of writing in which a concept is simply explained.
Plot, Rising Action
The events leading to or causing the climax.
Plot, Falling Action
The events following (usually as a result of) the climax and leading to the denouement.
Point of View
The vantage point from which an author presents the action and characters.
Polysyndeton
Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis.
Prologue
Section of a work that precedes the main plot and serves as an introduction.
Prose
Fiction or nonfiction written in ordinary language that resembles ordinary speech.
Protagonist
The main character. While not necessarily the hero, the protagonist is usually who the author intends the audience to identify with.
Psychological Novel
Narrative which emphasizes motives, conflicts, and opinions or main characters, leading to the development of the external action.
Pun
Play on words based on multiple potential meanings.
Quatrain
A poem of four lines, or a four-line stanza of a poem.
Realism
A 19th century literary movement that attempted to portray life accurately; characters have free will.
Refrain
Words, phrases, or groups of words repeated for effect.
Rhetorical Purpose
The reason for the speaker’s remarks, OR the attitude the author would like the reader to adopt.
Rhetorical Strategy
A writing choice to accomplish a purpose.
Rhetorical Strategy, Ethos
Ethical appeal in argumentation.
Rhetorical Strategy, Logos
Logical appeal in argumentation.
Rhetorical Strategy, Pathos
Emotional appeal in argumentation.
Rhetorical Shift
A change in attitude, purpose, or effect.
Rhetorical Question
A question asked for stylistic effect and emphasis to make a point rather than solicit an answer.
Rhetorical Modes
The variety, purposes, and conventions of the major types of writing.
Rhetorical Mode, Exposition
Explaining and analyzing information.
Rhetorical Mode, Argumentation
Proving the validity of an idea or point of view.
Rhetorical Mode, Narration
Telling a story. A narrative may be written in prose or verse.
Rime Royal
A Chaucerian stanza composed of seven lines written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ababbcc.
Romanticism
A literary movement that emphasizes intuition, imagination, and emotions over reason; usually expresses a love of nature and contempt for materialism.
Satire
A literary or artistic work that uses irony, wit, and humor to critique society or an individual in an attempt to affect change.
Satire, Horatian
Satire that points out vanity, foolish behavior, superficiality, or self-absorption.
Satire, Juvenalien
Satire that is usually angry, sarcastic in tone, and often bitter in its expression of contempt for and disgust with specific behavior, public policy, or social practice.
