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Ap lit big 45
big 45 vocab ap lit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foil | Character who contrasts with another Example: Draco vs. Harry |
| Exposition | Background info about characters like plot, setting, and social norms |
| Climax | Where conflict meets highest intensity |
| Plot | Stuff that happens in a story |
| Resolution | How story ends (not always nicely) |
| Tragic Character | When character has flaw or judgment error which leads to downfall |
| Setting | Where & When of a story |
| Point of view | 1st "I" 2nd "you" 3rd "She" Omniscient: knows all feelings of all character |
| Imagery | Description of how somethings looks, feels, tastes, and sounds |
| Tone | How authors attitude toward a subject |
| Mood | Feeling created for reader from literature |
| Idiom | Phrases that have meaning by culture but don't make sense otherwise Example: "break a leg" |
| Idiosyncratic | Strange attitude or temperament Example: putting salt on ice cream |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as Example: As cool as a cucumber |
| Metaphor | Direct comparison |
| Personification | non-human thing given human qualities Example: "the storm raged" |
| Analogy | Comparison to similar thing someone knows about Example: "Strong as an ox." |
| Allegory | Story with two meanings |
| Allusion | Indirect reference to something outside text Example: "They are a real life Romeo And Juliet" |
| Apostrophe | When a person detaches from reality and talks to imaginary person or object |
| Hyperbole | Over exaggeration |
| Understatement/Meiosis | something presented as not as important |
| Pun | joke that plays on multiple meanings of a word |
| Irony | Verbal; when character says one thing but means other Situational: what expected opposite happens Dramatic: dif between character knows and audience knows |
| Foreshadowing | writing that hints toward future |
| Rhetoric | Persuasion through speaking/writing |
| Rhetorical Q | Question which is not meant to be given a response |
| Anaphora | word repeated in text multiple times to make it stick example: "I have a dream" |
| Antithesis | Use of contrasting ideas and putting them together Example: "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee." |
| Metonymy | Replaces something with something else Example: "We swear loyalty to the CROWN." |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| symbol | something that stands for something else/carries more than literal meaning |
| paradox | Statement that seems like doesn't make sense but does Example: tortoise and the hair |
| Oxymoron | two opposite things smushed together Example: jumbo shrimp, deafening silence, living dead |
| Onomatopoeia | when words sound like sound describes Example: buzz, cuckoo, sizzle |
| Enjambment | Continuation of line in poem without a pause |
| Lyrical Poem | expresses strong personal feelings from narrator |
| Epic poem | Heoroic deeds significant of the poet. Think greek myth |
| Pastoral Poem | Poem that describes a utopian view |
| Ode | poem about an object or person and poets feelings on it |
| Sonnet-Shakespearean | 14 lines ABAB rhyme |
| Sonnet-Italian | 14 lines ABBA |
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