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AP Lit Set #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anecdote | a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story |
| Antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. |
| Characterization | the art and technique of representing fictional characters |
| Direct Characterization | when an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly. |
| End Stop | poetic line ending through punctuation and providing closure |
| Enjambment | continuation of a sentence without a pauce (punctuation) beyond the end of a linen couplet, or stanza |
| First Person POV | The narrator refers to themself using personal pronouns and is a character in the story |
| Flat Characters | behave and speak in predictable or repetitive ways. |
| Focus | The visual angle that directs the gaze of the audience; also referred to as its thesis, theme, controlling idea, main point. |
| Imagery | Using descriptive language to evoke a certain mental picture or feeling in the reader |
| Indirect Characterization | type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly |
| Line length | physical length of the poetic line can catch our attention |
| Metaphor | to describe or compare something without using like or as |
| Meter | The rhythmic structure within a poem and is dictated by the number of syllables and the pattern in which these syllables are emphasized |
| Narration | a narrator’s/speaker’s perspective that controls the details and emphasis of the story and effects the experience and interpretation |
| Narrator | The individual(s) telling the story |
| Objective POV | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |
| Omniscient POV | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. |
| Plot pace | the speed at which a sequence of events occurs in a story |
| Plot sequence | the order of events in a story line |
| Protagonist | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action. Usually the hero or anti-hero |
| Rhyme | created with the last one or more syllables within separate words match. |
| Round Characters | act from varied, often conflicting motives, impulses, and desires. They have psychological complexity and are capable of surprise. |
| Scheme | the rhyming pattern within a verse of poetry |
| Second Person POV | The narrator refers to the reader using the pronoun “you,” turning the reader into a character in the story |
| Simile | comparing one thing to another using like or as |
| Stanza | a group of lines within the verse of a poem |
| Symbol | something physical/image that represents an abstract idea |
| Third Person POV | The narrator refers to all characters using their pronouns (he, she, they, etc). The third person narrator can be omniscient or limited, objective or biased. |
| Voice | The style, tone, word choice, and word order used by the narrator; an author or narrator’s distinctive style or manner of expression. Voice can reveal much about the author or narrator’s personality |
| Apprehensive | anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen |
| Benevolent | well meaning and kindly |
| Condemnation | the expression of very strong disapproval |
| Contemptuous | showing contempt; scornful |
| Discord | disagreement between people |
| Disdain | the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect |
| Disillusioned | disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than on had believed |
| Exasperating | intensely irritating and frustrating |
| Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory |
| Extravagant | lacking restraint in spending money or using resources |
| Fallibility | the tendency to make mistakes or be wrong |
| Fantastical | strange and wonderful, like something out of a story |
| Harmony | agreement |
| Impulse | a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act |
| Indifferent | having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned |
| Mortality | the state of being subject to death |
| Passive | accepting or allowing what happens or what other do, without active response or resistance |
| Reminiscence | a story about a past event remembered by the narrator |
| Shrewd | having or showing sharp power of judgment; astute |
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