5068062361 | Apostrophe | figure of speech in which some ABSENT or NONEXISTENT/NONLIVING person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding | 0 | |
5068062362 | Suspension of Disbelief | Suspending one's critical opinions to read a text in someone else's world | 1 | |
5068134194 | Exposition | When the author explains/reveals events or info that occurred before the beginning of the book | 2 | |
5068064359 | End-stopped Line | Line that ends with a punctuation: period, comma, semicolon, exclamation point | 3 | |
5068066893 | Enjambment Line | Line that spills into the next line without stopping | 4 | |
5068066894 | Deus Ex Machina | A plot device an author uses to solve a problem by including an unexpected or random new character, ability, or object | 5 | |
5068068438 | Connotation | Implied/secondary/associated definition | 6 | |
5068072860 | Steps on How To Read A Poem | 1. Read/MUTT task 2. View the title and overall structure & make an inference about text 3. Skim/Read through text to recognize diction, tone, attitude 4. Re-read using previous steps | 7 | |
5068074870 | Vladimir Nabokov: Reading Fiction | 8 | ||
5068160612 | Laurence Perrine: Interpreting Poetry | -Interpretation of diction is not limitless -Don't make assumptions -Diction connects to other diction -Best interpretations come with evidence that can't be contradicted | 9 | |
5068074871 | Author Vs. Speaker | Author: who wrote the poem Speaker: character in text | 10 | |
5068077173 | Analysis | "Looking specifically in detail"; more in-depth; looking for meaning; details on why the author chose to include; purpose, WHY it is; the "unseen" | 11 | |
5068077174 | Summary | "Looking at the whole"; identifying key points; re-writing in own words; surface-level; what the text is about; what is "Seen" or given in the text | 12 | |
5068502048 | Social Commentary | When an author utilizes a text to comment about a particular society (theme) | 13 | |
5068086024 | Attitudes | the author's tone of voice to get ideas across | 14 | |
5068512348 | Tone | author's attitude towards a subject or audience | 15 | |
5068088534 | Three Types of Essays on AP Exam | 1. Prose 2. Poetry 3. A Book You've Read | 16 | |
5068096113 | Given Time for Essays on AP Exam | 40 min for each; 120 min total (55% of exam) | 17 | |
5068103167 | Multiple Choice Questions | About 55 Q's/60 min (45% of exam) | 18 | |
5068105208 | "Reading With The Spine" | To separate the brain and heart/rationality vs. passion | 19 | |
5068177058 | Qualities of A Tragic Hero (Aristotle) | Hamartia Catharsis | 20 | |
5574048628 | Synechoche | a part of the whole/the whole of a part | 21 | |
5574051607 | Irony | 22 | ||
5574051608 | Metonymy | 23 | ||
5574052653 | Imagery | 24 | ||
5574052654 | Auditory | sense of hearing | 25 | |
5574053584 | Visual | sense of sight | 26 | |
5574053585 | Olfactory | sense of smell | 27 | |
5574053586 | Gustatory | sense of taste | 28 | |
5574054353 | Kinesthetic | sense of touch | 29 | |
5574055999 | Understatement (Meiosis) | When the speaker makes a situation seem less important/serious than it is | 30 | |
5574056001 | Euphemism | understatement to substitute a harsh, negative word into an inoffensive, positive word/phrase | 31 | |
5574056002 | Litotes | understatement that denies the opposite | 32 | |
5574056661 | Theme | an underlying message or "big idea" | 33 | |
5574057283 | Rhyme Scheme | an ordered pattern of rhymes | 34 | |
5574059231 | Speech | a phrase or word having different meanings from its literal meanings | 35 | |
5574059232 | Soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud to themselves or with a present audience | 36 | |
5574059233 | Monologue | A long speech by a character | 37 | |
5574060213 | Dialogue | Conversation between two or more people | 38 | |
5574060214 | Flashback | a scene or acknowledgement of a time in history | 39 | |
5574061014 | Reflection | 40 | ||
5574062045 | Red Herring | When the author misleads the reader to a different outcome | 41 | |
5588972506 | Extended Metaphor | the comparison between two unlike things that continues through out a paragraph or lines in a poem | 42 | |
5574065565 | Allegory | Extended metaphor in which objects, characters, actions represent a symbol that carry a moral/political meaning | 43 | |
5574065566 | Conceit | When two vastly different objects resembled together with metaphors/similes | 44 | |
5574066598 | Parody | an imitation to make fun with a comic effect | 45 | |
5574067158 | Satire | technique to expose/criticize the foolishness an corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to improve humanity | 46 | |
5574067159 | Caricature | a device used to exaggerate someone or an object's characteristics to create a comic effect | 47 | |
5574068240 | Foil | When a character highlights the positive qualities of the main character by having similar characteristics, but highlights the differences | 48 | |
5574068241 | Selection of Detail | The specific words, images, events the author uses to create a scene/narrative | 49 | |
5574070020 | Shift or Turn | A change in the speaker's understanding of a situation | 50 | |
5574070021 | Hubris | Extreme pride or arrogance of a character that leads to their downfall | 51 | |
5574070524 | Hamartia | The flaw/past experience that causes the character's collapse | 52 | |
5574070525 | Catharsis | When the audience feels pity and fear for the tragic hero | 53 | |
5574071085 | Didacticism | To learn form a text | 54 | |
5574071086 | Bathos | Overly sentimental pathos - can be ridicule | 55 | |
5574073761 | Style | The way the author uses words, sentence structure, and figurative language | 56 | |
5574071969 | Elements of Structure | rhyme scheme, meter, alliteration/assonance, repetition | 57 | |
5574072616 | Meter | A stressed or unstressed syllabic patter in a verse | 58 | |
5574072617 | Rhythm | measure motion in patterns of stressed/unstressed syllables | 59 | |
5574072618 | Voice | the author's style that conveys their attitude, character, personality | 60 | |
5574073178 | Point of View | A narrator's position in a story | 61 | |
5574074966 | Syntax | Periodic Inverted Interrupted | 62 | |
5574076534 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines with alternate lines | 63 | |
5574076535 | Tercet | a stanza of three that rhyme together | 64 | |
5574077333 | Couplet | two rhyming lines | 65 | |
5574077334 | Triplet | three lines in a poem that rhyme | 66 | |
5574077335 | Heroic Couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic parameters | 67 | |
5574078642 | 1st Person POV | When the speaker is a character telling their own story from their POV | 68 | |
5574078643 | 2nd Person POV | When the narrator tells the story to another character or the audience using "you" | 69 | |
5574080400 | 3rd Person Limited | When the narrator is limited to only one character's mind to express their thoughts or actions | 70 | |
5574083635 | 3rd Person Omniscient | When the narrator knows everything from all the characters thoughts and actions | 71 | |
5574083636 | Structure | 72 | ||
5574086770 | Classical Oration | 73 | ||
5574086771 | Induction | 74 | ||
5574086772 | Deduction | 75 | ||
5574087243 | Toulmin Method | 76 | ||
5574087244 | Anachronism | When something is out of chronological order/out of time | 77 | |
5574089550 | Bildungsroman | Coming of age story | 78 | |
5574091124 | Parallelism | When the verbal construct in poetry or prose that correspond in diction and structure | 79 | |
5574091125 | Analogy | a comparison of two things | 80 | |
5574092020 | Parable | a didactic story with a lesson | 81 | |
5574092672 | Expose | a public exposure or revelation | 82 | |
5574092673 | Saga | a long story or series of events of heroic achievement | 83 | |
5574093069 | Onomatopoeia | formation of a word from a sound created from named object | 84 | |
5574132008 | Ballad (Poem) | A song of story | 85 | |
5574133481 | Dramatic Monologue (Poem) | A long poem spoken by one character reveal details about themself | 86 | |
5574134193 | Elegy/Dirge (Poem) | "Elegiac", a sad poem about one's death | 87 | |
5574134194 | Epic (Poem) | An unexpected, long and serious poem about a hero | 88 | |
5574134593 | Epitaph (Poem) | Inscription of the dead, usually on tombstone | 89 | |
5574134594 | Free Verse (Poem) | Poem with no rhymes and no fixed form | 90 | |
5574135053 | Blank Verse (Poem) | "Iambic Pentameter": rhythm of speech with five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables | 91 | |
5574136290 | Epithalamium (Poem) | Poem or speech on marriage in honor of the bride, groom or wedding | 92 | |
5574136291 | Lyric (Poem) | Poem that expresses one's thoughts or feelings - Sonnets elegies, odes | 93 | |
5574136788 | Narrative (Poem) | A poem or piece of prose that tells a story | 94 | |
5574136789 | Ode (Poem) | A celebratory dedication to something | 95 | |
5574137540 | Pastoral (Poem) | A romanticized poem about rural life | 96 | |
5574137541 | Idyll (Poem) | Poem about an ideal life or place | 97 | |
5574138178 | Sonnet (Poem) | Poem consisting 14 lines that has one or more rhyme scheme | 98 | |
5574138727 | Sestina (Poem) | "Sesenta"; a 30 line poem of six, six line stanzas plus a three-line stanza called envoy | 99 | |
5590122842 | Envoy | short stanza at the end of the poem to address another person or comment on the preceding stanzas | 100 | |
5574138728 | Villanelle (Poem) | a 19 line poem with five 3-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain | 101 |
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