AP Vocab 151-180

Question 1

Plot, Denouement

Answer 1

Resolution of the plot.

Question 2

Plot, Exposition

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Plot, Rising Action

Answer 3

The events leading to or causing the climax.

Question 4

Plot, Falling Action

Answer 4

The events following (usually as a result of) the climax and leading to the denouement.

Question 5

Point of View

Answer 5

The vantage point from which an author presents the action and characters.

Question 6

Polysyndeton

Answer 6

Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis.

Question 7

Prologue

Answer 7

Section of a work that precedes the main plot and serves as an introduction.

Question 8

Prose

Answer 8

Fiction or nonfiction written in ordinary language that resembles ordinary speech.

Question 9

Protagonist

Answer 9

The main character. While not necessarily the hero, the protagonist is usually who the author intends the audience to identify with.

Question 10

Psychological Novel

Answer 10

Narrative which emphasizes motives, conflicts, and opinions or main characters, leading to the development of the external action.

Question 11

Pun

Answer 11

Play on words based on multiple potential meanings.

Question 12

Quatrain

Answer 12

A poem of four lines, or a four-line stanza of a poem.

Question 13

Realism

Answer 13

A 19th century literary movement that attempted to portray life accurately; characters have free will.

Question 14

Refrain

Answer 14

Words, phrases, or groups of words repeated for effect.

Question 15

Rhetorical Purpose

Answer 15

The reason for the speaker’s remarks, OR the attitude the author would like the reader to adopt.

Question 16

Rhetorical Strategy

Answer 16

A writing choice to accomplish a purpose.

Question 17

Rhetorical Strategy, Ethos

Answer 17

Ethical appeal in argumentation.

Question 18

Rhetorical Strategy, Logos

Answer 18

Logical appeal in argumentation.

Question 19

Rhetorical Strategy, Pathos

Answer 19

Emotional appeal in argumentation.

Question 20

Rhetorical Shift

Answer 20

A change in attitude, purpose, or effect.

Question 21

Rhetorical Question

Answer 21

A question asked for stylistic effect and emphasis to make a point rather than solicit an answer.

Question 22

Rhetorical Modes

Answer 22

The variety, purposes, and conventions of the major types of writing.

Question 23

Rhetorical Mode, Exposition

Answer 23

Explaining and analyzing information.

Question 24

Rhetorical Mode, Argumentation

Answer 24

Proving the validity of an idea or point of view.

Question 25

Rhetorical Mode, Narration

Answer 25

Telling a story. A narrative may be written in prose or verse.

Question 26

Rime Royal

Answer 26

A Chaucerian stanza composed of seven lines written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ababbcc.

Question 27

Romanticism

Answer 27

A literary movement that emphasizes intuition, imagination, and emotions over reason; usually expresses a love of nature and contempt for materialism.

Question 28

Satire

Answer 28

A literary or artistic work that uses irony, wit, and humor to critique society or an individual in an attempt to affect change.

Question 29

Satire, Horatian

Answer 29

Satire that points out vanity, foolish behavior, superficiality, or self-absorption.

Question 30

Satire, Juvenalien

Answer 30

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.