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PreAP Lit Terms 2
PreAP Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| appeals | methods authors use to gain favor in rhetoric, or to establish tone |
| pathos/emotional appeals | appeals to audience's feeling and sympathies |
| logos/logical apppeals | appeals to audience's brain/logical side |
| ethos/ethical appeals | attempts to sway readers by creating a positive impression of his/her character |
| archetype | a theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that holds a familiar place in culture's consciousness (ex: knight in shining armor, villian, the sidekick, the Garden of Eden) |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words |
| asyndeton | the omission or conjunctions in a series. ex: on my desk are pens, books, papers, exams. the omission of the conjunction emphasizes quality |
| bathos | a sudden exchange from extreme lighthearted to extreme sentiment |
| bildungsroman | a novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist |
| caricature | the author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual. Charles Dickens' characters are often caricatures |
| cacophony | the arrangement of harsh-sounding words; kill, crack, create, danger, cupcake |
| catharsis | a cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art |
| chiasmus | two phrases in which the syntax is the same, but the placement of words is reversed ex: "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." |
| climax | the moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in a plot |
| cliche | expressions that are used so frequently that they're not as powerful ex: she decided to turn over a new leaf |
| colloquialism | an informal expression or slang, usually limited to a certain geographical area/culture ex: y'all v. you guys |
| comic relief | a character whose actions are comedic and release tension |
| conceit | a far fetched metaphor/simile |
| conflict | the problem a character faces INTERNAL - problem within oneself EXTERNAL - outside problem - another person or perhaps a thing |
| connotation | the emotional side of a word (implied meaning that it has) ex: trash and garbage have the same denotation (dictionary definition), but trash sounds more negative |
| consonance | the repetition of consonants in a sequence of nearby words, especially at the end of stressed syllables or words when there is no similar repetition of vowel sounds ex: moth breath |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| dues ex machina | literally "god in the machine" it is used when a character is saved by a miraculous or improbable event. stems from the greek idea that the gods would rescue humans in times of peril |
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