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Poetry Project
AP lit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Denouement | The resolution of the conflict; the end of the story. |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences. |
| Aesthetics | A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty ,especially in art |
| Aphorism | A brief statement of a principle |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman |
| Aside | A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but it is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage. |
| Asyndeton | The deletion of a conjugates from a list. |
| Chiasmus | Introducing subjects ABC and D, and speaking about them in the order D C B and A. |
| Conceit | A absurd simile or metaphor when the speaker talks about two things that totally unrelated. |
| Deus Ex Mahina | Literary device used to denote when a mechanical(Created) obstruction appears out of no where to "save the day". |
| Didactic | A type of work that tries to teach morals the audience. |
| Dystopia | state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror |
| Epigraph | A brief quotation which appears the the beginning of a literary work. |
| Epigram | A brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.Used commonly in Classical Latin Literature. |
| Farce | A type of comedy that presents its self in a situationall irony-like setting. For example, when a bank robber hides within a police station. |
| Framing device | story within a story |
| Hubris | A theme commonly used in Greek stories, where the protagonist has a ego which is the cause of the punishments or test they are given by the gods. |
| Interpolation | A passage basically plagiarized without the author's word. |
| Malapropism | Incorrectly placing in a word on purpose to cause comedic affect. |
| Metonymy | When represent things other than what it directly suggests. |
| Pastoral | Literary work that represents rural lifestyle or elements. |
| Roman a Clef | Story with a plot that have real life and or events disguised as fictional characters. |
| Scansion | Marking of the poem's meter each stanza. |
| Semantics | Meaning of words and sentences |
| Semiotics | Correspondence between signs and symbols and their role in the assignment of meaning. For assistance in understanding how consumers interpret the meanings of symbols. |
| Stock character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history |
| Stream of consciousness | Stream of consciousness a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
| Trope | An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas; artful diction. |
| Vignette | (n.) a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter |
| Parable | A metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life and told in a simple story or riddle; it uses comparisons to teach. |
| Polemic | An aggressive argument against a specific opinion |
| Pathetic Fallacy | The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature |
| Magical realism | A genre of fiction in which elements of fantasy, myth, or the supernatural are included in a narrative that is otherwise objective and realistic. |
| Litotes | A , A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. |
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