AP Lit Terms I-Z
Test Thursday 10/16
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- Point of view
- Perspective from which the action of a story is presented
- Interior Monologue
- For novels & poetry, not dramas. Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on in a character's head.
- Prelude
- An introductory poem to a longer work or verse
- Periodic Sentences
- Not gramatically correct untill its reached its final phrase
- Parable
- A fable or alagory, story that insturcts
- Soliloquy
- A speech spoken by a character alone onstage
- Oxymoron
- A phrase composed of opposites "calm frenzy" "jumbo shrimp"
- Nemesis
- The protagonist's arch enemy, or supreme difficulty
- Subjectivity
- Interior or personal views
- Lament
- A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved on or another intense loss.
- Travesty
- A grotesque parody
- Metaphor
- Comparison, analogy
- Inversion
- When you switch the order of elements in a sentence or phrase
- Rhetorical question
- A question that suggests an answer
- Protagonist
- Main character of a novel or play
- First Person Narrator
- A narrator who is a character in the story, they tell it from their POV
- Parenthetical Phrase
- Phrase that is set off by commas that interupt the flow of the sentence (added detail)
- Requiem
- A song of prayer for the dead
- Pastoral
- A poem set in tranquil nature about shepards
- Persona
- The narrator in a non-first person novel
- Refrain
- A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem
- Omniscient narrator
- A third person narrator who sees like god, is all knowing
- Simile
- Softens out the full equation of things, doesnt always use like or as
- Lyric
- A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world
- Onomatopoeia
- Words that sound like what they mean Boom! Pow! Bam!
- Masculine Rhyme
- A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable
- Lampoon
- A type of satire
- Utopia
- An idealized place
- Stream of consciousness technique
- Instead of character telling sotry, author places reader inside main character's head
- Thesis
- Main position of a agrement
- Rhapsody
- An intensly passionate verse or section of verse; usually love/praise
- Stock Characters
- Standard of cliche type characters
- Objectivity
- Impersonal or outside view
- Personification
- An inanimate object takes on human shape
- Satire
- Exoses common character flaws to the cold light of humor
- Limited Omniscient narrator
- A third person narrator who generally only reports what one character sees, thinks, etc
- Plaint
- A poem or speech expressing sorrow
- Stanza
- A group of lines roughly analogous in fuction inverse to the paragraph's function in pros
- Objective, Camera eye Narrator
- A thrid person narrator who only reports what is visible to a camera
- Tragic Flaw
- The weakeness of a character in an otherwise great individual that ultimatley leades to his demise
- Irony
- Statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean or is supposed to mean.
- Unreliable narrator
- Not creditied, is biased, not trustable POV
- Parody
- A work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness
- Suspension of disbelief
- The demand made of the theatre audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imaginations
- Melodrama
- Cheesy drama, hero good, evil bad
- Loose Sentences
- Its complete before its end