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AP English III
2nd Semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word | Alliteration |
| A reference to a famous, historical, or biblical person or event. In other words, it means someone's name that is a word used to describe something else | Allusion |
| The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs | Anaphora |
| Person or character who opposes the protagonist | Antagonist |
| Denotes a figure of speech in which someone absent, inanimate or dead is addressed as if were alive and present and able to reply. | Apostrophe |
| Language belonging to an earlier time and generally no longer used | Archaic Language |
| Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants | Assonance |
| An account of ones life written by that person | Autobiography |
| An account of one's life written by someone else | Biography |
| Verse without rhyme | Blank Verse |
| the way an author presents/describes a character | Characterization |
| The most intense, and important part of a literary work | Climax |
| Extended metaphor | Conceit |
| Serious disagreement or argument | Conflict |
| The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words | Consonance |
| Two line verse | Couplet |
| The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. | Denouement |
| A particular form of language peculiar to a certain region or social group | Dialect |
| Choice and use of words in speech or writing | Diction |
| When the audience is more aware of the plot than the character does | Dramatic Irony |
| The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter | Shakespearean Sonnet |
| A short writing on a particular subject | Essay |
| To represent as greater than is actually the case; overstate | Exaggeration |
| A comprehensive description and explanation on an idea or theory | Exposition |
| The events of a dramatic or narrative plot following the climax. | Falling Action |
| A comedic dramatic work | Farce |
| Short stories and novels that describe imaginary people, places, and events | Fiction |
| changes the literal meaning, to make a meaning fresh or clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or sensory effect, or to extend meaning | Figurative Language |
| A time earlier than the main story | Flashback |
| A story typically passed by word of mouth | Folk Tale |
| Hinting of things to come | Foreshadowing |
| A story within a story | Frame Story |
| Poetry that does not rhyme | Free Verse |
| literary species or form, e.g., tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, essay, biography, lyric poem | Genre |
| a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s centered in the Harlem Neighborhoods of New York | Harlem Renaissance |
| a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful | Hemingway Hero |
| Exaggerated statements not to be taken literally | Hyperbole |
| a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | Iambic Pentameter |
| Descriptive or figurative language | Imagery |
| A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | Internal Rhyme |
| the discrepancy between what is said and what is meant, what is said and what is done, what is expected or intended and what happens, what is meant or said and what others understand | Irony |
| a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet |
| Daily record of news and events of a personal nature | Journal |
| Customs, Manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to it's particular character | Local Color |
| A form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings | Lyric Poetry |
| The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar. | Malapropism |
| A metaphor that suqqests a comparision rather than stating it directly | Implied Metaphor |
| A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work | Extended Maetphor |
| A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns, | Meter |
| The dominant impression or emotional atmosphere evoked by the text. | Mood |
| The dominant impression or emotional atmosphere evoked by the text. | Motivation |
| A spoken or written account of connected events | Narrative |
| Writing based on facts, actual events, and people | Nonfiction |
| A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow the previous argument or statement | Non Sequitur |
| A group of eight lines of poetry, especially the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet | Octave |
| Lyric poem in the form of address to a particular subject | Ode |
| A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true | Paradox |
| Having identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases. | Parallelism |
| Placing of clauses or phrases one after another | Parataxis |
| Giving non-living objects human characteristics | Personification |
| 4 line stanza | Quatrain |
| To stop oneself from doing something | Refrain |
| refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features – including characters, dialects, customs, history, and topography – of a particular region. | Regionalism |
| The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. | Repetition |
| Resolution is the part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out | Resolution |
| Correspondence of sound through the ending of words | Rhyme |
| A strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound | Rhythm |
| a series of events that lead to the climax of the story, usually the conflicts or struggles of the protagonist | Rising Action |
| a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule | Satire |
| Last 6 lines of a sonnet | Sestet |
| Area and time of where a literary work takes place | Setting |
| A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as | Simile |
| A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. | Sonnet |
| Religious songs of black Christian U.S. Slaves derived from the combination of hymns and African music | Spiritual |
| One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines | Stanza |
| a person, place, or thing comes to represent an abstract idea or concept -- it is anything that stands for something beyond itself. | Symbol |
| the central plot of a work of literature | Theme |
| The presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is | Understatement |
| The overall voice expressing a feeling or mood | Tone |
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