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AP English III vocab
summer literary terms for mrs. smiddy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anaphora | the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences |
| Impressionism | a highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular vantage point rather than as they are presumed to be in actuality |
| Rationalism | systems of though that rely on reason rather than sense-perceptions, revelation, tradition, or authority |
| Slang | a vernacular speech, not accepted as suitable for highly formal usage, though much used in conversation |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words close together |
| Caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse |
| Synecdoche | a type of metaphor (trope) in which a part signifies a whole or a whole signifies a part |
| Parallelism | such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased |
| Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event |
| Fallacy | an argument failing to satisfy the conditions of valid or correct inference |
| Euphony | the subjective impression of pleasing sounds |
| Chiasmus | a pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed |
| Jargon | confused speech, resulting particularly from the mingling of several languages or dialects; also the special language of a group or profession |
| Realism | fidelity to actuality in its representation; striving to present reality as it truly is |
| Transcendentalism | a reliance on the intuition and the conscience |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two things in which one thing becomes the other |
| Romanticism | a movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that marked the reaction in literature from the formal orthodoxy of the preceding period; |
| Anaphora | the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences |
| Impressionism | a highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular vantage point rather than as they are presumed to be in actuality |
| Rationalism | systems of though that rely on reason rather than sense-perceptions, revelation, tradition, or authority |
| Slang | a vernacular speech, not accepted as suitable for highly formal usage, though much used in conversation |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words close together |
| Caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse |
| Synecdoche | a type of metaphor (trope) in which a part signifies a whole or a whole signifies a part |
| Parallelism | such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased |
| Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event |
| Fallacy | an argument failing to satisfy the conditions of valid or correct inference |
| Euphony | the subjective impression of pleasing sounds |
| Chiasmus | a pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed |
| Jargon | confused speech, resulting particularly from the mingling of several languages or dialects; also the special language of a group or profession |
| Realism | fidelity to actuality in its representation; striving to present reality as it truly is |
| Transcendentalism | a reliance on the intuition and the conscience |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two things in which one thing becomes the other |
| Romanticism | also termed "liberalism in literature," meaning especially the freeing of the artist and writer from restraints and rules and emphasizing individualism |
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