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English Vocab*
AP English vocab
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ante | before |
| anti | against |
| bi | two |
| circum | around |
| antagonist | a character who causes conflict |
| com | together |
| con | together |
| de | down |
| dis | away |
| equi | equal |
| extra | beyond |
| inter | between |
| intra | within |
| intro | into |
| mal | bad |
| mis | bad |
| non | not |
| post | after |
| pre | before |
| semi | half |
| sub | under |
| super | over |
| syn | together |
| sym | together |
| tri | three |
| un | not |
| enjambment | jamming sentences together and leaving out punctuation on purpose |
| fable | short story which tells a moral |
| flashback | events that are in the characters' past; pupose is to help reader understand the character |
| foreshadow | hints, clues that suggest what the future brings |
| foil | the opposite of, the complementary of the other |
| flat | not well developed, no opportunity to change |
| framing | a story that ends the same way it begin EX: Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| ellipsis | 3 dots to show, 1) a piece of quote that has been left out, 2) indicate time change or different speaker |
| epithet | giving someone a bad name, an unflattering name |
| sigurative | language that exaggerates. EX: he is as big as a house |
| hubris | pride. Pride is bad in literature, a character with pride will fall |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration. EX: I can't live without my cell phone |
| litotes | an exaggeration that makes the situation smaller than it really is EX: Monte Python |
| idiom | slang EX: break a leg |
| imagery | word choice that creates image through the 5 sense EX: sticky stinky green sweet loud goo |
| inversion | putting the character last in a sentence, the purpose is to slow sentence down, creates suspend EX: a jedi knight you are not |
| irony | situations that doesn't go the way you would expect |
| verbal irony | you say something you don't mean |
| conflict | there are 4 kinds: 1) man vs. man 2) man vs. nature 3) man vs. self 4) man vs. unkown (GOD) |
| complication | the events that build up to the conflict |
| crisis | greater build up of problems leading to the catastrophe |
| connotation | associated meaning. Can have a negative mean or a positive meaning to the original word |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| device | techniques and tools writer uses |
| dialect | how the character speaks, accents, spells how it is spoken |
| dialogue | the words and sentences that the character speaks. The word and sentences are put inside the quotation mark |
| diction | word choice 1) high - academic, formal 2) middle - conversational 3) low - informal, break grammer rules, slang language |
| dilemma | a situation without a positive outcome |
| dynamic character | character that change |
| epigram | a little saying, usually clever |
| epitaph | an epigram on a tombstone |
| figurative language | language that is not literal, suggestion, not exact |
| idiom | phrase used by a culture |
| periodic sentence | a sentence that makes you wait for the point |
| parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating it |
| paradox | a seemingly impossible situation |
| parallelism | parallel stories that eventually intersect |
| persona | the character telling the story, not the writer |
| point of view | first person/third person, or perspective of others |
| plot | the order of events |
| prose | not poetry, not drama, written in paragraph form |
| protagonist | the character that deals with the conflict that the antagonist caused |
| pun | play on words |
| personification | human characteristics given to nonhuman objects |
| realism | presents the real world, writer write the story to find a point |
| rhyme scheme | rhymes with similar endings (day, way) |
| romanticism | super natural, the ideal world |
| satire | uses a negative to bring out the positive, constructive criticism |
| setting | where andd when a story takes place |
| slang | nonstandard diction |
| slant rhyme | words that look like they should rhyme but do not |
| soliloquy | speech of a character to himself (thinking outloud) |
| stanza | paragraphs of poetry, grouping of words in a poem |
| static character | a character that doesn't change despite the opportunity |
| sarcasm | verbal irony (say what you don't mean, knowing you said it) |
| style | theway the writer uses stolls such as irony, metaphors, contrast, etc. |
| synecdoche | mentioning a part, but meaning the whole (lend me your ears) |
| syntax | sentence structure |
| theme | the point of a story, ideas/concerns/issues the writer wishes to address in the novel |
| thesis | the topic with a narrow focus, the statement which the writer makes and back up with support |
| tone | how the story sound, EX: melancholy, mysterious, etc. |
| transition | a phrase that connects a paragraph with the ones before |
| wit | a type of humor, clever |
| onomatopoeia | word that is the sound it makes EX: ding ding dong |
| jargon | language accepted in a field or hobby |
| pedestrian v. pedantic | standard language v. language with huge vocabulary |
| four types of rhetorical style | narration, description, exposition, persuasion |
| metonymy | a nickmane that reveals the character |
| motif | when symbol is repeated |
| oxymoron | 2 word paradox EX: holy war |
| malapropism | irony where you unknowning use the wrong word |
| juxtaposition | opposit ideas present in the same sentence EX: it was the BEST of time, it was the WORST of time |
| The order of event for trouble | 1) complications 2) conflict 3) crisis 4) climax ?) catastrophe can be anywhere |
| mono vs. poly syllabic | smaller simple words v. big complex words |
| 3 level of words | 1) appearance 2) poly syllabic 3) meaning |
| concrete vs. abstract (specific vs. general) | EX: flag v. freedom , object v. idea presented in the object |
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