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PreAP Lit Terms 5
PreAP Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| POV | the perspective the story is told in |
| first person | when the narrator is a character in the story. the story is only known from what the character sees, hears, knows, etc. Uses first-person pronouns - I, we, us, my, mine |
| second person | when the narrator is not a character, but talks to the audience. Addresses the audience as "you" etc. |
| third person limited | when the narrator is not a character, but the story is focusing on one character and what he/she knows, sees etc. |
| third person omniscient | when the narrator is not a character, and the story is told from many perspectives - we see what many characters are thinking, seeing, feeling, doing, etc. |
| third person omniscient objective | the narrator reports neutrally on the outward behavior of the characters, but offers no interpretation of their actions or inner states |
| polysyndeton | the use of conjunctions in between each item of a series. ex: on my desk are books and pens and paper and pencils. it emphasizes quantity |
| propaganda | ideas, facts, or allegations spread to persuade others to support one's cause or to go against the opposing cause |
| protagonist | the main character in a piece of literature |
| pun | a play on words that exploits either the double definition of the words or similarities in ways words are pronounced |
| rhetoric | the art of persuasion |
| rhetorical question | a question that does not warrant a response, but calls attention to the subject of the question |
| satire | a work that ridicules elements of society - it pokes fun to prove a point |
| similie | comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| syllepsis | when one word modifies two or more words in other ways ex: "Mr Pickwick took HIS hat and HIS leave." |
| syllogism | a type of argument in which a conclusion is inferred from a general statement ex: if all dogs bark, and Fluffy barks, then Fluffy is a dog. if a=b and b=c, then a=c |
| synaesthesia | the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another. ex: she has a hunger to swim in the icy water |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole or when a genus is referred to by a species ex: want to take a ride in my new wheels? |
| syntax | the sentence structure choice an author makes |
| tautology | obvious needless and redundant repetition ex: free gift, widow woman |
| tone | the author's attitude of what he/she is writing about |
| understatement | deliberatley representing/describing something with less importance than it really is. ex: if youur parents are angry, an understatement would be to describe them as a bit unhappy |
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