English Ap vocab
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- allegory
- a story in which characters and events represent qualitites or concepts
- alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds
- allusion
- figure of speech which makes brief reference to an historical or litereary figure, event, or object
- ambiguity
- the expression of a idea in language which gives more than one meaning and leaves uncertainty as to the meaning
- anapest
- meter having two unstressed syllables, followed by a stressed syllable (--/)
- antagonist
- the character in a narrative or play who is in conflict with the main character
- anti-hero
- a protagonist who is the antithesis of the hero - graceless, inept, stupid, sometimes dishonest
- apostrophe
- addressing someone of something, usally not present, as though present
- ballad
- a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic of exciting episode in narrative form
- archetype
- a recurring pattern of situations, character, or symbols exciting instinctively in the collective unconscious of man
- aside
- a statement delivered by a actor in such a way that the other characters on stage are presumed not to have heard it
- assonance
- similarity or repitition on a vowel sound in two or more words in a line of verse.
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- cacophony
- the use of seemingly harsh, unmusical sounds
- caesura
- a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry
- catharsis
- Aristotle's word for the pity and fear an audience experiences upon viewing the downfall of a hero
- characterization
- the techniques employed by authors to develop characters: actions, descriptions, dialogue, thoughts, inferences
- classicism
- an approach to literature which emphasizes reason, harmony, balance, proportion, clarity, and the imitation of ancient
- climax
- the turning point, or crisis, in a play or other piece of literature
- comedy
- a work which strives to provoke smiles and laughter
- complication
- the part of a plot in which the entaglment caused by the conflict is developed
- conceit
- an extended metaphor - two unlike things are compared in several ways
- conflict
- a struggle between opposing forces
- connotation
- the emotional implications that a word may carry
- consonance
- repetition of a consonant sound in two or more words in a line of verse.
- couplet
- a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter
- crisis
- the climax or turning point of a story or play
- dactyl
- three syllable foot consisiting of an accented syllable followed by the unaccented syllables
- denotation
- the specific, exact meaning of a word
- denouement
- the resolution of a plot