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Ap literture
Ap lit terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Novel | A length style of writing that usually has a plot unfolded by the actions and thoughts of the character. |
| Narrator | to tell a story or give a running commentary in a work of literature or drama |
| nonfiction | a work of literature that is compltly fact |
| Novella | A short form of a novel |
| dramatic point of view | we are told an experience and are left alone to infer our own feelings as an observer |
| octave | first eight line s of a sonnet |
| Omniscient narrator | insight of what the charters think and feels |
| open form | unconventional poetic structer |
| overstatement | making something seem more important then it is |
| paradox | contradictory words. |
| Parallelism | a pattern with in a group of sentences. |
| parody | satirical criticism or comic mockery of society |
| persona | the person understood to be speaking or writing in a work of literature |
| personification | giving human traits to a no living thing |
| picaresque novel | Early form of novel usually in first person |
| plot | events that makes up a story |
| first person narrator | narration done in first person |
| pun | word play were one word has two or more meaning |
| realism | representation of reality |
| refrain | repeating phrase or verse |
| regionalism | fiction that soecifically focus on a specific feature |
| romanticism | form of lit emphsising emotions |
| satire | literary works poking fun at society |
| scansion | describes rythem of poetry |
| scene | scenirio in a work of lit |
| setting | where a story takes place |
| short story | story with a fully devolped theme and plot just shorter |
| simile | comparisons using like or as |
| soliloquy | a speech |
| stream of conscious | presents thought and feeling of singular character |
| surrealism | express workings of the subconscious |
| suspens | a moment of unknowing /mystery |
| symbol | an object that represents something else |
| theme | the subject |
| tone | writers attude towards a certain subject |
| tragedy | a type of work were the main character is brought to id demise |
| tragic flaw | cause of a characters demise |
| tragic irony | irony in a tragedy |
| understatements | statement the lessens the point |
| unreliable narration | narrioters who may not be reliable |
| vulgate | common version |
| diction | authors choice of words |
| syntax | pattern in sentence formation |
| colloquial English | english slang |
| concrete diction | describes qualities that appeal to the five seances |
| abstract diction | describes concepts |
| contation | second meaning of a word |
| denotion | literl meaning of a word |
| dialect | regional accent |
| auditory imagery | imagery appealing to the sense of hearing |
| visual imagery | imagery appealing to seeing |
| tactile imagery | imagery involving touch |
| olfactory imagery | imagery involving smell |
| gustatory imagery | appeles to the sense of taste |
| allagorey | extended metaphor |
| aliteration | repitiosn of words that sound a like or begin with the first same letter |
| allusion | reference to something else |
| ancedote | a short account of a specific incident |
| antithesis | direct opposite |
| apostrophe | figure of speech wen someone not there is addressed |
| archetype | generic inforation |
| assonence | repetition of vowel sounds |
| cacophony | harsh mixture of sounds |
| figure of speech | an expresssion |
| hyperbole | EXAGERATION |
| imagary | LANGUAGE THE ALLOWS THE READER TO FORM A VISUAL IMAGE |
| metaphor | A REPRESENTATIONAL |
| metonmy | USING A CONCEPT OF LITEL WORD |
| first person narrator | STORY TOLD FROM THE NARRATORS POV |
| fiction | IMAGAINARY WORKS |
| flash back | A MEMOEY |
| round character | A DEVOLPED CHARCTER |
| FLAT CHACTER | NO DEVOLPED |
| MEDIA IN RES | BEGINING WORKS AT A DRAMATIC POINT |
| INTERIOR MONOLOUGE | MONULOUGE EXPRESSING INNER THOUGGHTS |
| LIMTED THIRD PARTY POV | NARRATOR REVES EVERYONES THOUGHTS |
| OMNISCIENT POV | NARRATORS ABLE TO SEE ALL |
| LOCAL COLOR | REGIONALISM |
| MAGICAL REALISM | MAGIC PRESENTED IN REALITY |
| ANTAGONIST | OPRESSED |
| PROTAGONIST | OPRESSIVE |
| HERO | main character |
| ANTI HERO | rebellious main character |
| CLIMAX | point of greatest tension |
| ANTI CLIMAX | a drop from an important, dignified idea |
| ATMOSPHERE | how setting affects the moos |
| DYNAMIC | alot of changed |
| STATIC | no change |
| CHARCTERIZATION | description of a charcter |
| CONFLICT | struggle between opposing forces |
| CRISIS | turning point |
| DENOUNCEMENT | outcome of a situation |
| EPISTOLARY NOVEL | series of document correspondence |
| EXPOSITION | opening information |
| FALLING ACTION | action that follows the turning point |
| aside | short speech informing audience on what he or she is planning to do |
| comedy | an event or series of event that are meant to be a musing |
| comic relief | a humorse scene in the middle of a tragic or serious scene used to break tension |
| drama | play |
| dramatic irony | when words mena something diffrent to the reader then the charcters |
| foreshadowing | when a author hints a certain plot developments |
| hubris | lost of contact with rality |
| irony | goes against the original intention of the word |
| cosmic irony | an unknown force rings dreadful dife events |
| irony of fate | fate destiny toys with human emotions (cosmic irony |
| verbal irony | statment when words aren't their literal meaning |
| catharsis | purging of emotions |
| monologue | short speech in lit |
| motivation | cause of a charcters behavior |
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