AP Literature Exam Literary Terms
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | utopia
🗑
|
||||
| show | unreliable narrator
🗑
|
||||
| show | truism
🗑
|
||||
| grotesque parody | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | tragic flaw
🗑
|
||||
| show | thesis
🗑
|
||||
| main idea of the overall work; central idea; topic of discourse or discussion | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | technique
🗑
|
||||
| show | symbolism
🗑
|
||||
| demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination; | show 🗑
|
||||
| simple retelling of what you've just read; includes all the facts | show 🗑
|
||||
| to imply, infer, indicate | show 🗑
|
||||
| set up a hypothetical situation, a kind of wishful thing; grammatical situation involves the words "if" and "were." | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | subjectivity
🗑
|
||||
| show | stream of consciousness
🗑
|
||||
| show | stock characters
🗑
|
||||
| group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | soliloquy
🗑
|
||||
| a comparison or analogy that softens the full-out equation of things, often but not always by using "like"or "as." | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | satire
🗑
|
||||
| a question that suggests an answer | show 🗑
|
||||
| instensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | requiem
🗑
|
||||
| show | refrain
🗑
|
||||
| usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | show 🗑
|
||||
| main character of a novel or play | show 🗑
|
||||
| introductory poem to a longer work of verse | show 🗑
|
||||
| narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his/her point of view | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | objective narrator
🗑
|
||||
| show | limited omniscient narrator
🗑
|
||||
| third-person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understands all the action going on | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | point of view
🗑
|
||||
| poem or speech expressing sorrow | show 🗑
|
||||
| giving an inanimate object human qualities or form | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | persona
🗑
|
||||
| not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase | show 🗑
|
||||
| complete before its end | show 🗑
|
||||
| poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds | show 🗑
|
||||
| work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | parenthetical phrase
🗑
|
||||
| show | paraphrase
🗑
|
||||
| repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | paradox
🗑
|
||||
| a story that instructs, like a fable or allegory | show 🗑
|
||||
| phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction | show 🗑
|
||||
| a pair of elements that contrast sharply | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | onomatopoeia
🗑
|
||||
| impersonal or outside view of events | show 🗑
|
||||
| protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
nkreider
Popular Literature sets