AP LIT Vocab Terms
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| APHORISM | show 🗑
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| show | literary device that uses the same consonant for majority of the words in a phrase
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| AESTHETIC | show 🗑
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| show | refers to ideas that cannot be felt with any of the five senses
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| ALLEGORY | show 🗑
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| show | someone dead/ something not human addessed as if they could respond
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| show | comparison between two different subjects to highlight a similarity
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| ALLUSION | show 🗑
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| BALLAD | show 🗑
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| show | actor/actress who says something to the audience that the rest of the case is not meant to hear
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| ANACHRONISM | show 🗑
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| show | someone who shows heroism traits in unconventional ways.
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| show | representation of an object as having human forms or traits. (ex. gods)
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| show | a word/phrase that is old fashioned
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| show | a copy/imitation so distorted as to be ludicrous
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| BOMBAST | show 🗑
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| show | bitter/ironic humor that deals or represents with unpleasent aspects of life
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| show | balanced with rhythmic flow, as of poetry
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| CANTO | show 🗑
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| EPIC | show 🗑
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| show | an inscription on a tomb
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| IRONY | show 🗑
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| CATHARSIS | show 🗑
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| ELEGY | show 🗑
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| show | flow of words without syntax; a poem without any order
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| COLLOQUIALISM | show 🗑
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| COUPLET | show 🗑
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| DICTION | show 🗑
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| SYNTAX | show 🗑
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| DIRGE | show 🗑
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| show | a genius metaphor
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| DENOTATION | show 🗑
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| CONNOTATION | show 🗑
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| LYRIC | show 🗑
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| BILDUNGSROMAN | show 🗑
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| show | a continuous stream of thoughts without any syntax
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| show | an opponent or situation that cannot be overcome easily
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| FOIL | show 🗑
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| FARCE | show 🗑
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| show | substitution of a mid/indirect/ vague statement for one thought to be offensive
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| show | literary "species" or form (comedy, tradegy, romance, sci-fi, etc)
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| show | express sorrow or grief
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| HUBRIS | show 🗑
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| IMPLICIT | show 🗑
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| show | describing a narrative that begins in the middle of the story ( The Odyssey)
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| show | a kind of verse that does not conform to any meter ( in the style of the poet T.S. Eliot)
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| show | a comparison using like or as
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| show | a comparison that DOESN'T use the words 'like' or 'as'
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| FOOT | show 🗑
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| FORESHADOWING | show 🗑
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| MELODRAMATIC | show 🗑
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| HYPERBOLE | show 🗑
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| ANECDOTE | show 🗑
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