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AP Lang 1
literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason; to feeling rather than intellect | Ad Hominem argument |
| using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning EX: Young Goodman Brown & Dr. Heidegger's Experiment | allgory |
| repetition of sounds, expecially inirial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words EX: She sells seashells at the seashore. | alliteration |
| direct or indirect reference something that is commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, or place EX: referring to Hitler, or Harry Potter | allusion |
| multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | ambiguity |
| similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them; can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with something more familiar | analogy |
| the word, phrase, or clause referred by a pronoun | antecedent |
| a seemingly contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure | antithesis |
| a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle EX: "Give me liberty or give me death" -Patrick Henry | aphorism |
| directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | apostrophe |
| the emotional mood created by a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described | atmosphere |
| change in conventional word order | anastrophy |
| a representation in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect | caricature |
| rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each another through a reversal of terms | chiasmus |
| a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | clause |
| slang or informality in speech or writing; conversational, familiar tone | colloquialism |
| extended metaphor or surprising analogy; displays intellectual cleverness due to the unusual comparison being made EX: Huswifery | conceit |
| the implied, suggested meaning of a word | connotation |
| the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | denotation |
| word choice | diction |
| works that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of morals or ethical principles | didactic |
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