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AP Lit
Ap lit words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Summary |
| Adage | Saying with truth based on experiance (dressed up with flowery language) |
| Allegory | Moral story |
| Alliteration | Repeating the same sound repeatly |
| Allusion | Referance |
| Ambiguity | Come on? |
| Anachronism | Outta place noun |
| Analogy | Comparison in simple terms |
| Annotation | Really? |
| Antagonist | YNs |
| Antithesis | Rhetorical opposition through syntax |
| Aphorism | General truth |
| Apollonian | Chad qualities |
| Apostrophe | Adressing a person or thing as if they were real |
| Archetype | Sterotype but perfect |
| Assonance | Sounding the same |
| Ballad | CORRIDOS |
| Bard | Poet; rizzard |
| Bathos | Too sentiemental |
| Balle-lettres | French term for general of books, literature, and their critizism |
| Bibliography | Serious? |
| Bildungsroman | Novel structure as a series of events |
| Blank verse | Free verse |
| Bombast | Inflated language for funnies |
| Burlesque | Mockary meant to ridicule |
| Cacophony | YN music |
| Caesura | A pause in the middle of a verse |
| Canon | Well studied and know piece of nation or period's literature |
| Caricature | Mockary of a person |
| Carpe diem | Faggot term for "Seize the day" |
| Catharsis | Downfall of Diddy |
| Classic | Highly regarded work of literature |
| Classical, Classicism | Orderly qualities in a story, Greek and Roman style |
| Climax | High point |
| Comming of age story | Come on, buddy! |
| Conceit | Genious and witty idea |
| Connotation | No mames |
| Consonance | Real Rhyme |
| Couplet | Pair of rhyming lines |
| Denotation | Ok dude |
| Denouement | Resolution at the end of a play or fictional work |
| Dues ex machina | Asspull |
| Diction | Choice of words |
| Dionysian | Incel impulses |
| Dramatic irony | A circumstance where the reader knows something the character doesn't |
| Elegy | Poem or serious reflection; usally about lemanting death |
| Ellipsis | ... |
| Elliptical constuction | Leaving words out on purpose |
| Empathy | Walking in a person's shoes |
| End-stopped | Line of poem endingf with punctuation |
| Enjambment | Use of two succesive lines with no punctuation or pause |
| Epic | Really long story |
| Epigram | Witty and thoughful statement |
| Euphony | Pleasing and harmonious sounds |
| Epithet | Striking quality of a person or thing |
| Eponymous | Protag |
| Euphemism | Softening of a taboo or bad idea |
| Exegesis | Critical interpretation or explaination of a text |
| Expose | Writing that reveals flaws of another text |
| Exposition | Giving background |
| Explication | Analysis of a text |
| Extended metaphor | Read the fucking word |
| Fable | Short tale with non-human characters to show a moral |
| Falling action | Really... |
| Fantasy | Sqrt(-100) |
| Farce | Comedy that's meant to be scornful in absurd way |
| Figurative language | Metaphors, similes, and personification |
| First person | I and we, dumbass |
| Flashback | Stupid |
| Foil | Minor character who juxtaposes a main character |
| Foot | Unit of stressed syllables |
| Foreshadowing | Hints that imply things later on in the story |
| Frame | Setting for a narrative |
| Free verse | Just exists and doesn't do much other |
| Genre | Back to 1st grade |
| Harangue | Getting scolded |
| Homily | Lecture on human behavior |
| Hubris | Vegeta |
| Humanism | HUMANS RULE! |
| Hyperbole | Exageration |
| Idyll | Lyric poem that glazes a place |
| Image | Enserio |
| Imagery | Image |
| Imperative mood | Give commands |
| Independent clauses | Stand alone clause that makes grammatical sense |
| Indicative mood | "Um aktually" |
| Indirect quotation | Paraphrased qoute |
| Inductive reasoning | Reasoning to make genralization |
| Inference | Conclusion by observation |
| Interal POV | "Oh no he's HOT" |
| Invective | Getting roasted + Blame |
| Irony | Light Sarcasm |
| Kenning | John Plumming |
| Lampoon | Mexican nicknames |
| Litotes | Understatement to make thing look good |
| Loose sentences | Main idea first; little clauses after |
| Lyrical prose | Brain shit |
| Malapropism | Embarazada vs embarrased |
| Maxim | Common truth or wisdom |
| Melodrama | Suzy |
| Metaphor | I'm gonna touch you |
| Metaphorical allusion | Metaphor + allusion |
| Metaphysical | Metaphysics; crackhead talk |
| Metonymy | One thing used to reffer to the set |
| Middle English | 1150-1500 |
| Mock epic | Parody of an epic |
| Mock solemnity | READ |
| Mode | How things are discussed |
| Montage | ROCKY! |
| Mood | How a thing is suppose to come off |
| Moral | A lesson |
| Motif | AP Lang |
| Muse | (n) Greek god of art (v) to ponder |
| Myth | Women |
| Narration | to speak |
| Narrative | GET OUT! |
| Naturalism | Synonym for realism |
| Non sequitur | Illogical unrelated statement from previous one |
| Objective | NAH! |
| Ode | Serious glaze poem |
| Old English | 450-1150 |
| Omniscient narrator | Narrator knows everything |
| Onomatopoeia | Words say their meaning |
| Oxymoron | Deafing silence |
| Parable | Story where a moral can be derived |
| Paradox | Youtube |
| Parallel structure | Two ideas in a sentence |
| Paraphrase | No, no, no |
| Parody | Mocking |
| Passive voice | (verb) done to (noun) |
| Pastoral | Stories that deal with rural life |
| Pathetic fallacy | Bad reasoning that gives human qualities to objects |
| Pathos | Go back to 9th grade |
| Pedantic | Petty and meticulous |
| Periodic sentence | Idea at end and evidence last |
| Persona | DISTURBING THE PEACE |
| Personification | Hmm |
| Plot | "for the plot" |
| Plot line | Back to fifth grade |
| POV | POV |
| Predicate | The part of the sentence that discribes the subject |
| Predicate nominative | Another name for an object |
| Prose | Anything that ain't poetry |
| Prose poem | Selection of prose that is a poetic cuz of language |
| Proverb | Truth condenses experience in memorable form |
| Pseudonym | False name for writers |
| Pulp fiction | Novels for mass consumption with exciting plots |
| Pun | Messier |
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mrmonkey14
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