APL Deck 1 Vocab Flashcards
A major unit in a drama or play.
Act
a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life.
Allegory
the repitition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
Aliteration
a refrence in literary word to a person, place, or thing in history or another word of literature.
Allusion
a comperison of two or more like objects that suggest if they are alike in certain respects, they will be in other ways as well.
Analogy
brief account of an interesting incidient or event that usually is intended to entertain or make a pun
anacedote
an actors speech, directed to the audience, thats not suppose to be heard by other actors on stage.
Aside
repitition of vowel sounds within the line of poetry
assounance
the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing.
Audience
writer of the book, play, article, or other text.
Author
Authors purpose is his reason for creating a particular work
Authors purpose
A form of nonfiction writing in which a person tell the story of his or her life
autobiography
poem that tells a story that is suppose to be snug or recitied
Ballod
the story of a persons life that is written by someone else
biography
a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry
blank verse
unryhmed iambic pentameter
Caesura
One event causes the other, the affter effect is the effect
Cause and Effect
a person is responisble for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other lit.
Character
A character in the story who decieves fustrates or works againsst the main character.
anatagonist
a picture or imitation of a person habits, physical apperance or mannerisms
Caricture
a character who serves as a constant conflict to another character
foil
a character whose actions are inspiring or noble
Hero/Heroine
the characters who are central to the plot of the story,
main character
less important cahcracters
minor characters
he or she may also be refered to as the hero of work
Novel, story, play, or poem
all the techniques writers use to create character
characterization
a characters personality , a trait is not physical description of a character
character triat
the author dircetly states the characters traits
dynamic character
a character that changes throughout the story
dynamic character
a character whom little info is provided
flat character
the author does not directly state the characters triats, instead the author draws conclusions
indirect characterization
a character fully described by the author
round character
a character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of the story
static character
The order at which events happen in time
Chronological order
Process of reviewing what the reader has read after reading to fast and going back over
Clarifying
A type of figurative language containing an over used expression
Cliche
A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone and usually ends happily
Comedy
Process of identifying similarities
Comparison
A type of poetry that uses it’s physical and visual form to present it’s message.
Concrete poetry
The tension or problem in the story
Conflict
The dominant or most important conflict in the story
Central conflict
The problem or struggle that exist between the main character and an outside force.
External conflict
Struggle in the main characters mind
Internal conflict
A readers process of relating to the content of a literary work to his or her own knowledge
Connecting
The idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to it’s dictionary definition
Connotation
The repetition of constant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry
Consonance
Hints or suggestions that may surround unfamiliar word or phrases and clarify there meaning
Context clues
the process of pointing out differences between things
contrast
a rhymed pair of lines in a poem
couplet
exact or dictionary meaning of a word
dennotation
form of language that is spoken in a particular place
dialect
the conversation between characters in a drama or narative or poem
dialogue
drama or plat that is meant to be preformed
Drama
combining several pieces of information to make an inference
drawing conclusions
literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her inter most thoughts and feelings
dramatic dialogue
type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one that has died.
elegy
incomplete syntax at the end of a line the meaning running over into the next line
enjambment
a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event
epigram
a brief tale that has a moral story or teaches a life lesson
fable
a statement that can be proved, reflects writers belief
fact and opinion
a work of literature that contains at least one fantastic or unreal element
fantasy
a rhyme of stressed end
masculine rhyme
a rhyme between stressed syllables
feminine rhyme
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
antithesis
a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
anachronism
repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
anadiplosis
1.
a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.
Anagram
Traditions, customs, and stories that are passed down within written culture
Folklore
A unit of meter within a line of poetry
Foot
Simple story passed down by generation by mouth
Folktale
Writer provides clues or hints that suggest or predict the future
Foreshadowing
Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme.
Free verse
generalization
A broad statement about an entire group.
Genre
Type of category of literature
A traditional form of Japanese poetry
Haiku
A couplet consisting of two concessive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought
Herioic couplet
Fiction that explores a past time period and may contain references to actual people and events in the past
Historical fiction
Fiction that explores the past time period and may contain references to actual people and events of the past
Horror fiction
The quality that provokes laughter or amusement
Humor
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humerus effect
Hyperbole
See meter
Iambic pentameter
A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually says
Idiom
The use of words and phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
Imagery
Is a logical guess based on evidence in the text
Inference
Meeting in which one person ask another about personal matters, personal matters or both.
Interview
Contrast in what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
Occurs when the speaker means something totally different then what he or she is saying.
Verbal irony.
Occurs when facts are not known to characters in a work of lit but are known by the audience
Dramatic irony
Suggest that some unknown force bring out dreadful events
Cosmetic irony
Difference between what’s expected and what actually worked out
Irony of situation
A story handed down from the past about a specific person
Legend
A short humorous poem composed of 5 lines
Limerck
The actual meaning of a word
Literal meaning
Poem used to express emotions or feelings
Lyric poem
The most important idea the writers wishes to express
Main idea
Specific type of autobiography doesn’t cover authors entire life
Memoir
Type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two unalike things
Metaphor
The regular patter of accented and in accented syllables. Regular is know as foot
Accented is x
In accented is u
Both are identified by \
Meter
Words that rhyme at the end of the verse
Eye or terminal rhymes
Word that appear to rhyme but don’t
Eye rhymes
Rhyme found within a line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Near rhyme half rhyme end vowels are the same.
Slant rhyme
End rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Flow of sounds created by in stressed and stress syllables in poetry
Rhythem
Mockery or verbal irony
Sarcasm
Work that targets human vices and follies
Satire
Branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of words
Semantics
Sum of choices the author makes blending diction and literary devices together
Style
A word or clause that compliments a verb
Subject compliment
Contains a subject and a verb but can’t stand alone
Subordinate clause
Anything that stands for something else
Symbol
The way the author chooses to join words into phrases
Syntax
Central idea
Theme
A sentence or group of sentences that represent the authors thoughts.
Thesis
Describes authors attitude towards his material
Tone
A word or phrase that links different ideas.
Transition
Ironic minimalizing of fact presents something less significant than it is
Understatement
Intellectual amusing language that suprised and delights
Wit
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
theme
In a literary work, a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. Motif and theme are linked in a literary work but there is a difference between them. In a literary piece, a motif is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea or message.
motif
words that are written appear to rhyme, but when spoken do not.
eye rhyme
a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society
satire
the process of searching through writing for a particular fact or piece of information
searching
words and phrases that help readers see hear smell taste
sensory details
distinctive style that uses a system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, rhyme scheme or pattern. has two main styles
sonnet
written in iambic pentameter, which ask questions or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a b b a abba total of 14 lines
petrarchan
Elizabethan sonnet , Also called: English sonnet a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
Shakespearean sonnet
