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AP Lang Terms 51-105
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| diction | word choice |
| discursive | rambling, wordy - fluent and expansive; digressing from subject to subject |
| dramatic irony | readers have greater knowledge over an event than a character does |
| dynamic character | a character who changes through the course of the literature |
| effect | emotion from a work; reader's mental/emotional impression |
| elegy | funeral song; mourning over something lost |
| epanadiplosis / anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a clause/sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next clause/sentence ex. "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." |
| epic | long poem, hero as main character |
| epigram | a brief, witty statement ex. "I can resist everything except temptation" "I am not young enough to know everything" |
| epistrophe / epiphora | repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences; counterpart of anaphora; emphasis on last word |
| ethos | appeal to credibility |
| euphony / euphemism | agreeableness of sound / "to pass away" |
| explication | explanation of text's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading |
| exposition | beginning of a story. establishes characters and setting |
| fable | succint story with anthromorphized mystical creatures that teaches a moral lesson |
| figurative language | metaphorical usage; use of tropes and figurative speech |
| figure of speech | an expression that strives to literary effect rather than conveying literal meaning |
| flashback | interjected scence that takes a narrative back in time |
| foreshadowing | hints an author uses to give clues to what will happen later in the plot |
| form | word morphology |
| function | role a rhetorical device has |
| heteroclite diction | irregularly formed words, cause attention; ex. swim, swimming, swam, had swum OR abide, abides, abiding, abode, abided |
| hortative sentence | a sentence which urges or is strongly encouraging "Let us leave now." |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake of emphasis |
| image | picture |
| imagery | figurative/descriptive language used to evoke mental images |
| imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands "Leave now!" |
| Impressionism | story centered on the character's mental/emotional life (ex. Hamlet) |
| inversion | a sentence in which the verb preceeds the subject |
| hypophora | speaker raises a question and then immediately answers it |
| irony | an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected |
| juxtaposition | placement of 2 things side by side for emphasis |
| laconic | concise speech; oppositve of discursive ex. "Men of few words require few laws." comes from the Spartans |
| litotes | understatement; expressed by a denial of its opposite, principally via double negatives; ex: "not unattractive" |
| logos | appeal to logic |
| Machiavellian | usurping, deceitful, sneaky, ruthless behavior (ex. Scar, Claudius) |
| magic realism | realistic setting with fancifal elements |
| metaphor | comparting 2 things without "like" or "as"; implicit comparison |
| metonymy | using the name of one object/concept to represent the whole (ex. Crown = entire monarchy) |
| modifier | a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause |
| monologue | speech by one character directly addressing another character or the audience |
| motif | reoccuring object/idea/theme throughout a piece of literature |
| narration | retelling of event(s) |
| nominalization | verb or adjective changed to a noun |
| occasion | reason or purpose for writing |
| onomatopoeia | words which sound like the noises they mean (ex. oink, meow, ROAR) |
| oxymoron | contradict right next to one another (ex. Jumbo shrimp) |
| pacing | speed the story is told |
| parable | short story with human characters used to teach a lesson |
| paradox | contradicting ideas that still express a truth ex. in Hamlet: "though this be madness, yet there is method in't" |
| parallel plot | 2 stories of equal importance running simultaneously; author switching back and forth |
| parallelism | repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns |
| parody | piece that immitate and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comedic relief or ridicule |
| pathos | appeal to emotion |
| periodic sentence | a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause ex. Despite driving through a hailstorm, running out of gas, and popping a tire, Susan arrived at the party on time. |
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