Literary Terms/ English Pre AP
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- Language describing ideas ad qualities rqther that observable or specific things, people, or places.
- Absrtact Language
- A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
- Ballad
- The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
- Denotaion
- A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or certain roup of people.
- Dialect
- All the action folowing the climax.
- Falling action
- The repeition at close intervals of inital identical consonant sounds.
- Alliteration
- aN INDERECT REFRENCE TO SOMETHING (USUALLY A LITERARY TEXT) with wich the reader is supposed to be familliar.
- Allusion
- The comparison to a directly parellel case. When a writer eses a _______, he or she argues that a claim reasonable for one case is resobable for the analogous case.
- Analogy
- A brief recounting of relevant episode. ______ q43 offten inserted into fitctin or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a pont or injecting humor.
- Anecdote
- Explatory notes added to a text to explain, cute sources, or give bibilographical data.
- Annotaion
- An important opponent of the main character or hero.
- Antagonist
- Repeition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity
- Assonance
- A preferce or indication for one side of an issue, either fot it or against it.
- Bias
- the method an author uses to develop characters in a work.
- Characterization
- the point in a story that creats the greatest suspence or intrest.
- Climax
- language that decribes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities.
- Concrete Language
- A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
- Conflict
- RAther than the dictionary defintion, the associations suggest by a word. Implied meaninh rather than the literal meaning or denotion.
- Connotation
- Repitition of a cansonant sound within two or more words in a cole proximity.
- Consonance
- Word Choice
- Diction
- A temporary depparture from the main subject in speaking or writing
- Digression
- A work of literature meant to be performed for an audince by acotors.
- Drama
- A character who changes sigificantly during the course of the story
- Dynamic Character
- rhyme at the ends if the lines or verses, ditinguished from rhyme within a line and rhyme at teh beginning of a line. ___ is the most common form of rhyme.
- End Rhyme
- Background information provided bt a writer to enhance a reader's understanding of the context of a fictional or nonfictional story.
- Exposition
- Interruption in the present action of a lot to show events happened at an erlier time
- flshback
- a character constructed around a single idea or wuality, a ____ is immediatly recognizable.
- Flat character
- the use of clues or hints suggeste events that will occur later
- foreshawdowing
- frence word, a literary form or type, classification
- genre
- conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect. not intended literally, often humors.
- hyperbole
- an expression pecuiliar to a particular language that means something diffrent from the literal meaning of the word.
- idiom
- the use of images, ezpesciallt in a pattern og related images, often figurative, to create a strong meaning of the words.
- imagery
- a contrast between what is ecxpected to occur and whaty acually occurs
- irony
- lfolowing the ordinary or usual meeting of a term or expression
- literal
- a comparison of two things often unrelated, not using like or as.
- metaphor
- so overused that its original impact has been lost
- dead medaphor
- an atmosphere created bt the writer's word choice, and the details selected.
- mood
- the lesson drawn from the fictional or nonfictional story
- moral
- a story that seplains something tabout the world and typicaly involves gods or other peritual forces
- myth
- a poem that tells a story
- narrative poem
- the use of a word whos pronounciation suggestsits meaning.
- onomatopeia
- figurative language in wich inanimate objacts anumals, ideas, have human traits.
- personification
- system od actions represented in a dramatic or narative work
- plot
- the perspective from wich a fictional or non fictional sroty is told.
- point of view
- and writing that is not poetry.
- prose
- chief character in a dramactic narrative work
- protagonist
- a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings
- pun
- the part in the storie where are the problomes are solved.
- resolution
- the art og efeective comunication, especially persuasive discourse.
- rhetoric
- a question ased, no answer is expected.
- rhetorical question
- the repretion of acccented vowels sounds and all sounds following them in words are close together in a poem
- rhyme
- musical quality produced by the repetion of stressed syllablesor sound patterns
- rythem
- all the actin leading up to the climax
- rising action
- a character drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to supries the reader without losing credibility
- round character
- local and period in wich the action takes place
- setting
- comparing two things using like or as
- similie
- a musical compsiton o words and music
- song
- a forteen-line poem, wrtten in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme.
- sonnet
- a sroup of conseecutive lines in a poem from a single unti
- stanza
- story intro. tells us who the characers are and usually what there cinflict is.
- starting point
- a character who does not change significitly during teh story.
- static character
- converentional characer types that recur repeatedly in various kluterary genres
- stock character
- the choice of diction,tone and sntanx that a wrtier makes.
- style
- the uncertanty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next
- suspence
- a thing, even ir oersibn that represents or stands for some idea or event
- symbol
- the central idea or ideas of a work of fiction or nonfiction, revealed during the course of the sory
- theme
- one or two sentences in the inroductory oaragraoh of a... essay.
- thesis statement
- a writer's attidtude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, fig. language, and organization of the sentance and slabal levels
- tone.
- in its most general sense, synonym for poetry
- verse