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AP Literature & Comp
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same constant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of the word. EX: descending dew drops. This adds emphasis onto the meaning of words. |
| Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature. Allusions imply reading and cultural experiences shared by the reader and writer EX: the room parted like the red sea |
| Amplification | Ways in which the author attempts to add emphasis on arguments that the reader might miss; more details are added. EX: this is a crisis, crisis, a large crisis |
| Anagram | A word or phrase made from letters of another word or phrase; can be used as messages by the writer. EX: "heart" = "earth" |
| Analogy | Comparison, where something is compared to another thing that is very different. EX: life is like a race |
| Anastrophe | |
| Anedcote | |
| Anthropomorphism | |
| Antithesis | |
| Archetype | A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader; ex: stories of quests , ascents to heaven |
| Assonance | The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same : ex asleep under a tree, each evening .... emphasis on words in a line |
| Asyndeton | |
| Authorial Intrusion | |
| Bibliomancy | |
| Bildungsroman | |
| Cacophony | Language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce usually for dramatic effect EX: never my numb plunker fumbles |
| Caesura | A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. Can occur anywhere within a line and need not be indicated by punctuation. |
| Characterization | An individual presented in a dramatic or narrative |
| Chiasmus | |
| Circumlocution | |
| Conflict | The struggle within the plot between opposing forces EX: |
| Connotation | Associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word, which derive from how the word has been commonly used EX: eagle connotes meanings of liberty and freedom |
| Consonance | A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical constant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds. EX: home, same, worth, breath |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word |
| Deus ex Machina | |
| Diction | A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures. and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning |
| Doppleganger | |
| Ekphrastic | |
| Epilogue | |
| Epithet | |
| Euphemism | |
| Euphony | Refers to language that is smooth and musical |
| Faulty Parallelism | |
| Flashback | A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader about events that took place before the story began |
| Foil | A character in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlight the distinctive temperament of that character (usually the protagonist) |
| Foreshadowing | The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later |
| Hubris | Excessive pride/self-confidence that leads a protagonist to disregard a divine warning or to violate an important moral law. EX; tragedies |
| Hyperbaton | |
| Hyperbole | A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true EX: he ate everything in the house |
| Internal rhyme | places at least one of the rhymed words within the line EX: Dividing and sliding |
| Inversion | |
| Irony | A device that uses contradictory statements to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. |
| Juxtaposition | |
| Kennings | |
| Malapropism | |
| Metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using "is" |
| Metonymy | type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. EX: "the crown" stands for the king |
| Motif | |
| Negative capability | |
| Nemesis | |
| Onomatopeia | A term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it demotes. EX: buzz, rattle, & bang |
| Oxymoron | A condensed form of a paradox in which two contradictory words are used together EX: sweet sorrow |
| Paradox | A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but hen, on closer inspection , turns out the make sense EX: death thou shalt die |
| Pathetic Fallacy | |
| Periodic structure | |
| Periphrasis | |
| Plot | An author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the actions and give the story a particular focus |
| Polysynderon | |
| Portmanteau | |
| Prologue | The opening speech/dialogue of a play, especially a classic Greek play: also known as the introduction to any literary work |
| Puns | A play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word EX: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man |
| Rhyme scheme | Describes the pattern of end rhymes, mapped out by noting patterns of rhyme with small letters |
| Rhythm and Rhyme | Rhyme: the repetition of identical/similar concluding syllables in different words..... Rhyme: a term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry |
| Satire | The literary art of ridiculing a folly or voice in order to expose or correct it; evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn towards a subject in hopes of improving it |
| Setting | The physical and social context in which the story of an action occurs |
| Spoonerism | |
| Stanza | Refers to a grouping of lines, set off by a space; has a set meter of rhyme and meter |
| Stream of consciousness | The most intense use of central consciousness in narration, this technique takes the reader inside a character's mind to reveal perceptions, thoughts, and feelings |
| Suspense | The anxious anticipation of a reader or an audience as the to outcome of a story; this helps keep the reader engaged |
| Syllepsis | |
| Symbol | A person, object, or image that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract beyond its literal meaning |
| Synecdoche | Type of metaphor in which part of something is used to signify the whole, the whole =part EX: Boston won the baseball game |
| Synesthesia | |
| Syntax | The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences |
| Theme | The central meaning or idea in literary work; everything in the story is centered around this meaning |
| Tone | The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style |
| Tragedy | A story that presents courageous individuals who confront powerful forces within or outside themselves with a dignity that reveals the breadth and depth of the human spirit in the face of failure |
| Understatement | The opposite of a hyperbole, figure of speech that says less than is intended, has an ironic effect, EX: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated |
| Verisimilitude | |
| Verse | Used to describe poetic lines composed in measured rhythmical pattern, not necessarily rhymed |
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