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AP Lit Terms List 1
Mr. Hodges AP Lit TermsList 1; taken from "The Glossary of Lit. Terms for the A"
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | discusses intangible qualities like good and evil and seldom uses examples to support its points |
| Academic | dry and theoretical writing; piece of writing that sucks the life out of it b/c of analyses |
| Accent | stressed portion of a word |
| Aesthetic | "appealing to the senses", artistic judgement, sense of taste |
| Aesthetics | study of beauty |
| Allegory | a story that has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; most fables are this type of writing; example would be Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Allusion | reference to another work or famous figure |
| Classical Allusion | reference to Greek or Roman mythology |
| Topical Allusion | refers to a current event |
| Popular Allusion | refers to something from pop culture |
| Anachronism | "misplaced in time", example would be an actor in a pre-historic setting wearing a wrist-watch |
| Analogy | comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts that emphasize a relationship |
| Anecdote | short narrative |
| Antecedent | word, phrase or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to |
| Anthropomorphism | inanimate objects are given human characteristics; "The darkness waits for me, I could hear its patient breathing..." |
| Anticlimax | an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect |
| Antihero | an unheroic protagonist; protagonist with undesirable traits |
| Aphorism | short and witty phrase |
| Apostrophe | figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman |
| Archaism | deliberately using old-fashioned language, usually to promote a sense of antiquity |
| Aside | a speech made by an actor to the audience |
| Aspect | trait or characteristic |
| Assonance | repeated use of vowel sounds, as in, "Old King Cole was a merry old soul" |
| Atmosphere | emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene |
| Ballad | long, narrative poem usually in very regular meter and rhyme; has a naive folksy quality |
| Bathos | when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every little hiccup |
| Pathos | when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy |
| Black Humor | the use of disturbing themes in comedy |
| Bombast | exaggerated learned language, when one tries to be eloquent by using large and uncommon words |
| Burlesque | broad poetry, one that takes a style or a form, such as a tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness |
| Cacophony | deliberately harsh, awkward sounds |
| Cadence | beat or rhythm of poetry in general sense |
| Canto | name for a section division in a long work of poetry |
| Caricature | exaggerates a facet of personality |
| Catharsis | "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived through the experiences presented on stage |
| Chorus | group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it (Greek Drama) |
| Classic | typical, as in "oh that was a ______ blunder"; or refer to a masterpiece |
| Coinage (neologism) | new word, usually invented on the spot |
| Colloquialism | word or phrase used in everyday conversation that technically is not "textbook"; example "I'm toasted" |
| Complex/Dense | the meaning is both explicit and implicit |
| Conceit | a startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and explanded upon over several lines |
| Controlling Image | When the image dominates and shapes the entire work, it's called a _____________ ________ |
| Connotation | everything that a word implies; opposite of dennotation |
| Dennotation | Literal meaning of a word |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words |
| Couplet | pair of lines that end in rhyme; example "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near" |
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