AP Vocabulary 61-81 Flashcards
Autobiography
One type of biography, which tells a life story of its author, meaning it is a written record of the author’s life. Rather than being written by somebody else, an autobiography’s comes through the person’s own words.
Memoir
A collection of a person’s memories.
Cumulative sentence
A cumulative sentence is known as a loose sentence that starts with an independent clause or main clause, which is simple and straight provides main idea and then add subordinate elements or modifiers. It adds subordinate or modifying elements after the subject and predicate.
Blank Verse
A literary device defined as unrhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter)
Bildingsroman
A story of the growing up of a sensitive person who looks for answers to his questions through different experiences. Generally, such a novel starts with a loss or a tragedy that disturbs the main character emotionally. He/she leaves on a journey to fill that vacuum.
Bildingsroman
During the journey, the protagonist gains maturity gradually and with difficulty. Usually, the plot depicts a conflict between the protagonist and the values of society. Finally he or she accepts those values and they are accepted by the society, ending the dissatisfaction.
Illusion
A false illustration of something, a deceptive impression or a false belief. Literally speaking, an illusion is something that is false and not factual. It tricks the mind into thinking an unreal into a real.
Foil
In literature, a foil is a character that shows qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.
Intertextuality
A sophisticated literary device used in writing. In fact, it is a textual reference within some text that reflects the text used as a reference. Instead of employing referential phrases from different literary works, intertextuality draws upon the concept, rhetoric or ideology from other texts to be merged in the new text.
Litotes
Derived from a Greek word meaning,”simple”, is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or , in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions
Utopia
The literary term utopia denotes an illusionary place that projects the nation of a perfect society to the reader. Here, the perfect society refers to ideal conditions achieved within the material world as opposed to the expected idealism of afterlife in Christianity or other religions
Sonnet
Derived from the Italian word “sonett”, It means a small or little song or lyric written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme and a “volta” or a specific turn.
Round character
A round character in a novel play or story is a complex personality
Situational Irony
a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. It occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen from what audience may be expecting o the final outcome is opposite to what the audience is expecting.
Static Character
One that does not undergo inner changes or undergoes a little change. It is a character that does not develop a grow such as Sherlock Holmes or James Bond.
