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AP Lang Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anti-climax | a break in the climatic order of events, making the climax less intense |
| Deus ex machina | means “God from the machine.” The resolution of the plot by some incredibly implausible chance |
| denouement | falling action |
| Foil Character | has similar or drastically different traits than the protagonist, play off of each other (ex. Ron and Harry) |
| Stock Character | stereotyped |
| Objective Point of View | The author does not permit the reader to hear any characters' thoughts--only characters' actions and words (hence dramatic). Implies an attitude of detachment toward the material which is being pursued, a refusal to comment and interpret directly. |
| Limited Point of View | The author tells the story using third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of only one character in the story |
| Characterization | Revelation of the personality of a character in a literary work. |
| Developing Character | other name for a dynamic character |
| abstract noun | intangible - ex. love |
| Antecedent | word referred to by the pronoun (what the pronoun is standing in for) |
| Active voice | said to be transitive active if the subject is performing the verb - ex. I ate the pizza |
| Passive voice | said to be transitive passive if the subject is acted up by the verb - ex. The pizza was eaten by me |
| Preposition | word related to noun or pronoun (transitional phrase) - ex. I ate pizza after the ritual killing, above, around, of, to |
| Conjunction | joins units of a sentence |
| Coordinating conjunction | ex. FANBOYS |
| Subordinate conjunction | ex. While I was at the dentist… (doesn’t need punctuation) |
| Dangling modifiers | no subject mentioned - ex. To be excused from class, a doctor’s note is required |
| Anachronism | history is mixed up on purpose (ex. Fallout) or accident |
| Burlesque | an exaggerated form of comedy - ex. Rocky Horror, Idiocracy |
| Canon | stuff they wanted out (so even if written but not published its not canon) |
| Epigraph | quotation on the title page of a book or heading a chapter/section |
| Grotesque | anything having the qualities - bizarre, awkward, out of context |
| Romanticism | A movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the NEOCLASSICISM and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period |
| Satire | A method to arouse laughter at targets individuals or groups, meant to correct human faults |
| Narrative Structure | chronological structure |
| Dramatic Structure | a series of scenes, like poetry |
| Discursive Structure | organized like an argument or essay (first, second, third) |
| Style | The arrangement of words in a manner best expressing the individuality of the author and the idea and intent in the author's mind. |
| Tone | The attitude the author of a work expresses to the reader through language |
| Voice | Controlling presence of 'authorial voice' behind the characters, narrators, and personae of literature |
| Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning |
| Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them, compares a familiar thing with an unfamiliar thing |
| Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship, which expresses a general truth or a moral principle, a quote |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love |
| Conceit | A fancy metaphor |
| Dead Metaphor | A figure of speech used so long that it is now taken in its denotative sense only, without the conscious comparison or analogy to a physical object once conveyed |
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