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AP Literature terms
Section 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| narrative | a story |
| narrative point of view | the narrator or speaker perspective from which a story is told - personal, objective, omniscient, partial, or limited omniscient |
| narrator | speaker or person; the one who tells a story |
| naturalism | writing that demonstrates a deep interest in nature; used to describe any form of extreme realism |
| near rhyme | a rhyme in which the sounds are similar, but not exact |
| neoclassicism | restoration literary movement in which writers turned to Greek/Roman models for inspiration |
| non-sequitur | Latin "it doesn't follow" |
| novel | an extended prose narrative |
| octave | an eight line stanza |
| ode | a long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme |
| omniscient | point of view where the narrator stands outside the story itself |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds |
| oxymoron | technique used to produce an effect by a seeming self-contradiction |
| parable | a short story to prove a point with a moral basis |
| paradox | a statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense; can be seen as true when viewed from another angle |
| paralipsis | the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted |
| parallel structure | a repetition of sentences using the same structure |
| parallelism | the repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected for rhetorical effect |
| paraphrase | a restatement of an idea to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form |
| parnassian | of or related to poetry |
| parody | ludicrous imitation for comic effect; sometimes for ridicule of the style and content of another's work |
| pastoral | a literary work that has to do with shepherds and rustic settings |
| pathetic fallacy | overdone writing that sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe |
| pathos | Greek term for deep emotion, passion, or suffering |
| pentameter | poetic line that has 5 metrical feet |
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