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
