The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test
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| 4189144871 | Paraphrase | To restate phrases and sentences in your own words. | 0 | |
| 4189144872 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness. | 1 | |
| 4189144873 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds. | 2 | |
| 4189144874 | Persona | The narrator in a non first-person novel. | 3 | |
| 4189144875 | Personification | When an inanimate object takes on human attributes. | 4 | |
| 4189144876 | Point of View | The perspective from which the action of a novel is presented. | 5 | |
| 4189144877 | Omniscient | A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on. | 6 | |
| 4189144878 | Limited Omniscient | A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character. | 7 | |
| 4189144879 | Objective | A thrid person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. Does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks it. | 8 | |
| 4189144880 | First person | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view. | 9 | |
| 4189144881 | Stream of Consciousness | Author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness. | 10 | |
| 4189144882 | Protagonist | The main character of a novel or play | 11 | |
| 4189144883 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 12 | |
| 4189144884 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 13 | |
| 4189144885 | Rhetorical question | A question that suggests an answer. | 14 | |
| 4189144886 | Satire | Attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common. | 15 | |
| 4189144887 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts. | 16 | |
| 4189144888 | Stanza | A group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraphs function in prose. | 17 | |
| 4189144889 | Stock characters | Standard or cliched character types. | 18 | |
| 4189144890 | Suspension of disbelief | The demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination. | 19 |
