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AP LIT - Glossary #7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imagery | A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds. The verbal expression of a sensory experience: Imagery may use literal or figurative language. |
| Imperative Sentence | A sentence that issues a command. The subject of an imperative sentence is often implied rather than explicit. ex. Make sure you show how Africans have music and rhythm deep in their souls, and eat things no other humans eat. |
| Impressionism | A movement of French painters that peaked 1870-80s. capture the subjective experience of seeing things rather than create accurate reproductions. Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas. The impressionists’ attempts to capture subjective expe |
| In Medias Res | Latin for “in the middle of things,” a technique in which a narrative begins in the middle of the action. Answer questions through flashbacks, assume you have knowledge |
| Indirect Characterization | author builds, or reveals, a character; Indirect characterization means that an author shows rather than tells us what a character is like through what the character says, does, or thinks, or what others say about the character. |
| Informal Diction | A writer’s choice of words. In addition to choosing words with precise denotations and connotations, an author must choose whether to use words that are abstract or concrete, formal or informal, or literal or fi gurative. |
| Internal Rhyme | The repetition of the same (or similar) vowel or consonant sounds or constructions. A rhyme that occurs within a line is called an internal rhyme. |
| Interrupted Sentence | A sentence of any pattern modified by interruptions that add descriptive details, state conditions, suggest uncertainty, voice possible alternative views, or present qualifications. |
| Inversion | Switch order - subject being followed by a verb and its object in a declarative sentence. Used to call attention to something, perhaps to emphasize a point or an idea by placing it in the initial position, or to slow the pace. Looks he had, trade he -, wi |
| Dramatic Irony | Tension created by the contrast between what a character says or thinks and what the audience or readers know to be true; some words and actions in a story or play take on a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. |
| Situational Irony | A pointed discrepancy between what seems fitting or expected in a story and what actually happens. |
| Verbal Irony | A figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticeable incongruity. Sarcasm involves verbal irony used derisively. |
| Italian Sonnet | Petrarchan sonnet Also known as the Italian sonnet, its fourteen lines are divided into an octave and a sestet. The octave rhymes abba, abba; the sestet that follows can have a variety of different rhyme schemes: cdcdcd, cdecde, cddcdd. |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two things side by side for the sake of comparison or contrast. Authors sometimes use incongruous juxtapositions to produce verbal irony. |
| Kafkaesque | Having the nightmarish, uncanny characteristics of Kafka’s stories. Enigmatic and nightmarish reality where the individual is perceived as lonely, perplexed, and threatened |
| Limited Omniscient Point of View | Perspective from which a story is told - Told by a narrator who relates the action using third-person pronouns (he, she, it). This narrator is usually privy to the thoughts and actions of only one character. |
| Literary Elements | The components that together create a literary work. This term encompasses elements of style, such as imagery, syntax, figurative language, and tone; as well as storytelling elements, such as plot, character, setting, and point of view. |
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| Different kinds of imagery: sight | visual |
| Different kinds of imagery: sound | auditory |
| Different kinds of imagery: scent | olfactory |
| Different kinds of imagery: taste | gustatory |
| Different kinds of imagery: touch | tactile |
| Different kinds of imagery: movement/tension | kinesthetic |
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