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AP Lit Terms #3
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pathos | a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) |
| persona | the speaker voice or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc |
| plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| pun | a play on words often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings |
| refrain | the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at definite interval in a poem usually at the end of a stanza |
| requiem | a song of prayer for the dead |
| rhapsody | an intensely passionate verse or section of verse usually of love or praise |
| rhetorical question | a statement that i formulated a question but that is not supposed to be answered |
| satire | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblence between things of different kinds using like or as |
| soliloquy | in drama a character speaks alone on stage to allow his or her thoughts and ideas to be be conveyed to the audience |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| foot | the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry |
| stock characters | standard or cliche characters types the drunk the miser the foolish girl etc |
| subjectivity | a personal presentation of event and characters influenced by the authors feelings and opinions |
| subjunctive mood | a grammatical situation involving the words if and were setting up a hypothetical situation |
| summary | a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form |
| symbolism | a device in literature where an object represents an idea |
| theme | the main and central idea of the text |
| thesis | the primary position or claim by a writer or speaker |
| tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation |
| truism | an obvious truth |
| utopia | an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal |
| zeugma | when a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction but only makes literal sense with one of them |
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