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PreAP Lit Terms 4
PreAP Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| irony | a contrast between what should be and what seems to be, a difference between expectation and fulfillment |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something about the plot that the character's don't know |
| cosmic irony | the depiction of the fate of the universe as malicious or indifferent to human suffering, creating a painful contrast between our purposeful activity and its ultimate meaning |
| situational irony | a technique in which the logical outcome doesn't happen - an illogical, unforseen outcome (usually the opposite of what SHOULD happen) |
| verbal irony | saying one thing, but meaning another |
| juxtaposition | placing unexpected combinations of words or ideas side by side |
| legend | a widely told story of the past that might or might not be true |
| litotes | deliberate understatement in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite (Queen Victoria saying, "We are not amused") |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things - doesn't use like or as |
| metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes. Ex: "Friends, Romans, countrymen... lend me your ears." Or when one term is subsituted for something that closely resembles it |
| mood | the feeling that the audience has while reading a work of literature. Mainly created by the setting. |
| motif | a recurring idea, structure, contrast, or device that develops or informs the major themes of a work of literature |
| myth | a story about the origins of one's beliefs and practices of culture |
| onamatopoeia | words that sound like what they do. ex: snap, crackle, pop |
| oxymoron | the association of two contradictory terms ex: jumbo shrimp |
| paradox | a phrase that seems to be contradictory, yet there's some truth behind it. ex: things will get worse before they get better |
| paralipsis | drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it. "I will not tell you that the mayor did a terrible job this year..." |
| parallelism | the use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparison or contrast between them. ex: "Before a joy proposed; behind, a dream." |
| passive voice | using "to be" verbs - am, are, be, been, is, was, were, etc. Verbs that don't show an action |
| personification | the use of human characteristics to describe animals, objects or ideas |
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