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AP Lit vocab 51-83
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Motivation | Reason or reasons behind a character's action; what induces a character to do what he does |
| Ode | A long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently. |
| Octave | The first part of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet; a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA |
| Open Form Poetry | A poem of variable length, one which can consist of as many lines as the poet wishes to write. |
| Overstatement | a type of verbal irony in which the speaker exaggerates, says more than what he or she means. |
| Parable | A story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth. Rather than using abstract discussion,it is relate-able |
| Parody | Imitation of a literary work the style used by a writer in order to ridicule the work and its writer or producer. |
| Pathos | Greek, "emotion"): In its rhetorical sense, it is a writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience--usually a deep feeling of suffering, but sometimes joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, or any of a dozen other emotions. |
| Point of View (POV) | The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds. |
| Objective Point of View | When the narrator reports speech and action, but never comments on the thoughts of other characters |
| Omniscient Point of View | a narrator who knows everything that needs to be known about the agents and events in the story, and is free to move at will in time and place, and who has privileged access to a character's thoughts, feelings, and motives. |
| Limited Omniscient Point of View | a narrator who is confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character, or at most a limited number of characters |
| Quatrain | stanza of four lines |
| Recognition | A term used to describe the moment of tragic recognition in which the protagonist realizes some important fact or insight, especially a truth about himself, human nature, or his situation. |
| Satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. |
| Sestet | The last part of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, it consists of six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern. Common rhyme patterns include CDECDE or CDCCDC |
| Sestina | Poem with six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a stanza with three lines (tercet). |
| Soliloquy | A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. The technique frequently reveals a character's innermost thoughts, including his feelings, state of mind, motives or intentions. |
| Sonnet | A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns. It usually expresses a single, complete idea or thought with a reversal, twist, or change of direction in the concluding lines |
| Stanza | An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem. Typically, each has a fixed number of verses or lines, a prevailing meter, and a consistent rhyme scheme. |
| Stereotype | A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation. |
| Stream of Consciousness | Writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form, without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax. Often such writing makes no distinction between various levels of reality. |
| Style | The author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects. An important part of interpreting and understanding fiction is being attentive to the way the author uses words. |
| Synedoche | A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. |
| Syntax | the orderly arrangement of words into sentences to express ideas |
| Tercet | A three-line unit or stanza of poetry. It typically rhymes in an AAA or ABA pattern. |
| Terza Rima | (Italian, "third rhyme"): A three-line stanza form with interlocking rhymes that move from one stanza to the next. |
| Tone | The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood. |
| Tragic Hero | The main character in a Greek or Roman tragedy. typically an admirable character who appears as the focus in a tragic play, but one who is undone by a hamartia--a tragic mistake, misconception, or flaw. |
| Tragic Flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. |
| Tragicomedy | A experimental literary work--either a play or prose piece of fiction--containing elements common to both comedies and tragedies. |
| Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration: "I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw." |
| Vilanelle | A versital genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order, and that only two rhyming sounds occur in the course of the poem. |
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