APL Vocab Flashcards
A major unit of action in a a drama or play. Each is divided into scenes.
Act
A story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life ; Often have a strong moral or lesson
Allegory
A reference to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. They are often indirect or brief references to well known characters or events
Allussion
Repition of constant sounds at the begginning of sounds
Alliteration
A comparision of two or more like objects
Analogy
A brief account of an incident or event that is intended to entertain or make a point
Anecdote
A character who decieves, frustrates or whom works against the main character
Antagonist
Is used to let the audience know what a character is about to do or what he or she is thinking
Aside
Repition of vowel sounds withing a line of poetry
Assonance
The particular group of readers or viewers that the author is addressing
Audience
The writer of a book, article or other text
Author
Nonfiction, The person tells/writes about their story of his or her life
Autobiography
A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited
Ballad
The story of a persons life that is written by someone else
Biography
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A pause or a sudden break in a line of poetry
Caesura
Two events are related when one event brings about or causes the other.
Cause and Effect
A person who is responible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature
Character
A picture or imitation of a persons habit physical apperance or mannerisims exaturated in a comic or absurd way
Caricature
A character who serves as a contrast or conflict to another character
Flat
A character whoose actions are inspring or noble. Often the main character
Hero/Heroine
The characters who are centeral to the plot of a story
Main Character
A less important character who interacts with the main character ; Helps move the plot along
Minor character
All of the techniques that writers use to create characters
Characterization
A characters personality.
Character trait
The author directly states a characters traits or make direct comments about a characters name.
Direct Characterization
A character who changes throughout the story
Dynamic character
A character about whom little info is provided
Flat Character
The author does not directly state a characters traits. Instead the author draws conclusions and discover a character traits based upon clues provided by the author
Indirect Characters
A character who is folly described by the author.
Round Character
A character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of a story
Static Character
The order in which events happen in time
Chonological Order
Process of pausing occasionaly in a story to review what he or she understands
Clarifying
An overused expression or a saying that is no longer considered original
Cliche
A dramtic work that is light and often humerous in tone and usually ends happily with a peaceful resolution of the main conflict
Comedy
The process of identifying similarities
Comparison
A type of poetry that uses its physical or visual form to present its message
Concrete Poetry
The tension or problem in the story; a struglle between opposing forces.
Conflict
The dominat or most important conflict in the story
Centeral conflict
Problem or struglle the exists b/w the main character and an outside force
External conflict
The problem or struggle that takes place in the main characters mind
Internal conflict
A readers or process or relating the content of a literary work to his or her own konowledge
Connecting
The idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to its dictionary, definition, or denotation
Connotation
The repition of constant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry.
Consanance
Hiints or suggestion that may be surrounded unfamiliar words or phrases and clarify their meaning
Context Clues
The process of pointing out differences b/w things
Contrast
A rhymes pair of lines in a poem.
Couplet
The opposite of connotation in that it is the exact or dictionary meaning of a word
Deontation
See plot
Denouement
A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people
Dialect
The conversation b/w characters in a drama or narrative.
Dialouge
Form of literature to be performed by actors befroe an audience.
Drama
Combining several pieces of info to make an inference
Drawing Conclusions
Literray device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings,
Dramatic Monolouge
typle of literature defind as a song or poem that express 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 w/o terminal punctuation
Enjambment
Short porm or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or even, usually with witticism or sarcassam
Epigram
See conflict
External conflict
Brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature often feature animal as characters
Fable
A statement that can be prooved. a statement that reflects the writers or speakers belief
Fact and opinion
See plot
Falling action
Work of literature that contains at least one fantasy or unreal element
Fantasy
See character
Foil
Traditions, customs and stories that passed down within a culture.
Folklore
simple story that has been passed from one generation by word of mouth.
Floktales
A unit of meter within a line of poetry
Foot
When the writer provides clues or hints that suggest or predict future event in a story
Foreshadowing
Poetry w/o regular patterns of rhyme often used to capture the sounds and rythms of ordinary speech
free verse
a broad statement about an entire group
gernalization
A typle or category of literature.;fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama
Genre
A greek word meaning original pattern or model
Archtypes
Traditional forms of japanese poetry, usually dealing with nature
Haiku
see character
Hero or heroine
a couplet consisting of two successive ryhimg lines that contain a complete thought
Hero couplet or closed couplet
Fiction that explored a past time preiod and may contain references to actual people and events of the past
Historical Fiction
Fiction that contains mysterioes and often supernatural events to create a sence of terror
Horror fiction
The quality that provokes laughter or amusement.
Humor
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerate for emphasis or humerous effect
Hyperbole
See meter
Iambic meter
A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Idiom
The use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery
Is a logical guess bases on evidence in the text
inference
SEe conflict
Internal conflict
Use of structers of phrases in simialr in order to draw the attention
anthesis
identifies error in the timline
Acronims
A meeting in which one person asks another about personal matters, professional matters or both
Interview
Contrast b/w what is expected and what actually exists or happen.
Irony
Occurs when the speaker means somethings totaly different than what he or she is saying
Verbal Irony
Occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature, but are known by the audience
Dramtaic Irony
Suggests that some unknown force brings about dire and dreadfull events
Cosmic Irony
The difference b/w what is expected to happen and the way events actually work out
Irony of Situation
A story handed down fromt he past about a sepcific person or heroic accomplishment
Legend
Short humerous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme aabba, created by two rhyming couplets followed by a fifth line that rhymes with the first couplet.
Limerick
The actual meaning of a word pr phrase
Literal Meaning
A song like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker
Lyric Poetry
See character
Main Character
The most important point that a writer wishes to express
Main Idea
A specific type of autobiography, a memoir is about the authors personal experience. Dosnt cover the authors entire life
Memoir
Type of figurative language in which a comparison is made b/w two things that are essintially unalike but may have one quality in common
Metaphor
The regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables.
Meter
X /
iamb
/ X
Trochee
X X /
Anapest
/ X X
dactyl
/ /
Spondee
X X
Pyrric
One foot per line
Monometer
Two feet per line
Dimeter
three feet per line
Trimeter
four feet per line
tetrameter
five feet per line
pentameter
six feet per line
hexameter
seven feet per line
heptameter
eight feet per line
octameter
the metaphorical substituion of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase
Metonymy
A mood or atmosphere is that feeling that a literary work coneys to readers.
Mood
A lesson that a story teaches
Moral
A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature. good and evil
Motif
Distinctive system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition in which two words have only their fianal consonant sounds
Slant rhyme
Rhyme found within a line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Words that when written apear to rhyme, but even spoken do not
Eye rhyme
Words that rhyme at the end of a verse or line
End or terminal rhymes
Traditional story that atempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is.stories passed on from generation to generation.
Myth
Any writing that tells a story
Narrative
Poetry that tells a story
Narrative Poem
One who tells the story
Narrator
One who gives his or her own understanding of a story, instead of the explanation and interpretation the author wishes to obtain
Unreliable Narrator
Writing that is true
Nonfiction
Work of fiction that is longer and more complex then a short storyu
Novel
A lyric poem of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and havng an elevated style and formal structure
Ode
the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning
Onomatopoeia
Your own beleifs
Opinion
Stories of peoples lives related by word of mouth.
Oral History
A form of figurative language combining contradictory words or idead
Oxymoron
A statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheles true
Paradox
the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance
Parallelism
the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form
Paraphasing
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of anauthors work for comic effect
Parody
Figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects given human characteristics
Personification
Writing is meant to sway readers feelings beliefs or actions
Persuasion
the writers attitude about his or her on the subjectq
Tone
A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character or characters who are involved historically or socially significant events
Tradgedy
statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said; opposite of hyperbole. this is usually used for a humerous effect
understatement
feeling of growing tension and excitement.
suspense
using something specific to stand for something else. ecspecially an idea
symbolisym
literary technique in which the whole is represented by naming on of its parts
Synecdote
humerously exaggerated story about impossible events
tall tale
common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work
theme
the pattern of end rhyme used in a poem matching lowercase letters
rhyme scheme
refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement or stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
rythm
the use of praise to mock someone or somethings the use of mockery or verbal irony
sarcasam
distinctive system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition in which words have only their final consonant sounds and no preceeding vowel or consonant sounds in common
slant rhyme
rhyme found in a line of poetry
internal rhyme
words that when written appear to rhyme but even spoken do not
eye rhyme
words that rhyme at the end of a verse line
end or terminal rhymes
aiterary 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 info
scanning
a section in a play presenting events that occur in one place at one time
scene
prose writing in which a writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or the future by using scientific data and theories as well as his or her imagination
Science fiction
a secondary source presents info complied from or based on other sources
secondary source
words and phrases that help readers see hear taste feel or smell what the author is describing
sensory details
the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented
sequence
the time place details and circumstances in which a story occurs
setting
brief work of fiction that generally focus on one or two main characters who face a single problem or conflict
short story
makes a comparison between teo otherwise unlike objects or ideas by connect them with the words like and as
simile
a speech delivered byy a character who is alone on the stage
soliloquy
poetic style yhat uses a system of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen line
sonnet
the voice that talks to the reader
speaker
a talk given in public
speech
the instructions to the actor director and stage crew in the script of the plsy
stage directions
a grouping of two ro more lines within a poem
stanza
two line stanza
couplet
three line stanza
triplet or tercet
four line stanza
quatrain
five line stanza
cinquain or quintet
six line stanza
sestet or sextet
seven line stanza
septet
eight line stanza
octave
fourteen line stanza
sonnet
a broad generalization or an oversimplified view that disregards individual differences
stereotype
a visual organizer that helps a reader understand a work of literature by tracking setting characters events and conflicts
story mapping
how a writer says something, word choice length tone
style
the process of briefly recounting the ma ideas of a piece of writing in a persons own words
summarizing
