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Lit terms
AP exam practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aesthetics | consideration of nature and perception of beauty in the arts |
| allegory | lierature with two or more levels of meaning, meant to create ideas not necessarily pertinent to the immediate plot |
| ambiguity | A statement with either more than one meaning or no clear way in which it was intended to be understood |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the start of clauses or sentences |
| aphorism | a brief, generally wise statement about life |
| apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or nonhuman is addressed as if it were able to reply |
| asyndeton | leaving out a conjunction such as a comma when listing something. |
| chiasmus | introduction of things/people/ideas in a certain order but discussion of them in the reverse order that they were presented in |
| colloquialsim | communication meant to imitate/display informal speech or dialect |
| conceit | far-fetched comparison between two things |
| deus ex machina | unrealistic event or divine intervention which resolves plot |
| didactic | literature meant to convey ideas about morality or philosophy |
| epigraph | quotation at the beginning of a work |
| epithet | word or phrase used for description which immediatly precedes or follows its subject ---Ex: much-beloved cake |
| exegesis | critical interpretation of an *especially biblical* text |
| homily | short discussion of a moral or religious theme |
| idiom | figure of speech "raining cats and dogs" |
| interpolation | altering a text by inserting new material |
| malapropism | Misuse or distortion (usually comical) of a word or phrase. Generally close to the intended word but very wrong in meaning. |
| metonymy/synecdoche | s=part to whole (give him a hand) ; metonymy=subject to closely related subject (white house=President) |
| pathetic fallacy | Attributing human attitudes or actions to nature or inanimate objects |
| polemic | An attack on someone or something |
| rhetoric | language used in a persuasive manner and which may be exaggerated or irrational |
| stock character | stereotypical character |
| trope | The use of words in a non-literal sense |
| vernacular | use of regional language or dialect |
| vignette | brief description of a thing or event; also a small illustration |
| litotes | An affirmative expressed using a negative (ex - you won't be sorry) |
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