Terms for Ms. Millsap's AP Literature class. More terms will be added as she gives them to us.
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| 827696125 | allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature ex. romeo take me somewhere so we can be alone - taylor swift | 0 | |
| 827696126 | ambiguity | unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning ex. foreigners are hunting dogs - hunting dogs? unclear whether dogs were being hunted or foreigners are spoken of as dogs. | 1 | |
| 827696127 | antithesis | exact opposite ex. it was the best of times, it was the worst of times | 2 | |
| 827696128 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces | 3 | |
| 827696129 | characterization | a graphic or vivid verbal description. 5 nodes are speech, physical characteristics, thoughts, reactions of others, and their actions classified with either direct or indirect | 4 | |
| 827696130 | connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested | 5 | |
| 827696131 | denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression | 6 | |
| 827696132 | diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words. 3 types are formal, middle, informal | 7 | |
| 827696133 | irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 8 | |
| 827696134 | motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 9 | |
| 827696135 | theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 10 | |
| 827696136 | foil | A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another | 11 | |
| 827696137 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 12 | |
| 827696138 | dystopia | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful | 13 | |
| 827696139 | archetype | classic example of | 14 | |
| 827696140 | point-of-view | the perspective from which a story is told | 15 | |
| 827696141 | denouement | the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | 16 | |
| 827696142 | 3rd person objective | the story is just told. the reader doesn't know what the characters are thinking | 17 | |
| 827696143 | 3rd person omniscient | A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. | 18 | |
| 827696144 | 3rd person limited | when the narrator is telling the story about one character that is not him/herself and is limited to the knowledge of that character | 19 | |
| 827696145 | round character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | 20 | |
| 827696146 | flat character | A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 21 | |
| 827696147 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 22 | |
| 827696148 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 23 | |
| 827696149 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true ex. war is peace | 24 | |
| 827696150 | double-entendre | a statement that has two meanings, one of which is dirty or vulgar | 25 | |
| 827696151 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor ex. if i don't get an A on this test I'll die | 26 | |
| 827696152 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 27 | |
| 827696153 | catharsis | (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | 28 | |
| 827696154 | stream-of-consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy | 29 | |
| 827696155 | rhetoric | the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing; inflated language ex. politicians, preachers, used car salesmen | 30 | |
| 827696156 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 31 | |
| 827696157 | hubris | overbearing pride or presumption | 32 | |
| 827696158 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 33 | |
| 827696159 | tragic hero | a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy | 34 | |
| 827696160 | rising action | events leading up to the climax | 35 | |
| 827696161 | falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution | 36 | |
| 827696162 | climax | the decisive moment in a novel or play | 37 | |
| 827696163 | parody | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 38 | |
| 827696164 | satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | 39 | |
| 827696165 | black humor | the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect | 40 | |
| 827696166 | juxtaposition | the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | 41 | |
| 827696167 | symbolism | the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | 42 | |
| 827696168 | syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 43 | |
| 827696169 | foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot | 44 | |
| 827696170 | tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | 45 | |
| 827696171 | tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | 46 | |
| 827696172 | mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage | 47 | |
| 827696173 | analysis | a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed | 48 | |
| 827696174 | imagery | mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding | 49 | |
| 1012410904 | monologue | A long speech in a play or story, delivered by a single person (see soliloquy). | 50 | |
| 1012410905 | soliloquy | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. | 51 | |
| 1012410906 | iambic pentameter | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. (in normal terms a line of poetry with 10 syllables divided into 2 syllables to equal the "5 feet" each foot has a unstressed and stressed mark in that order.) | 52 | |
| 1012410907 | act | division unit in a play or drama | 53 | |
| 1012410908 | scene | a division of an act in a play | 54 | |
| 1132415339 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself | 55 | |
| 1132415340 | requim | a song or prayer for the dead | 56 | |
| 1132415341 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings ex. a horse is a very stable animal | 57 | |
| 1132415342 | oxymoron | use of contradictory words in the same phrase ex. great depression, jumbo shrimp | 58 | |
| 1132415343 | euphemism | nice way of saying something ex. make love is for saying having sex | 59 | |
| 1132415344 | reversal | when the protagonist's fortune turns in an unexpected direction. PLOT TWIST | 60 | |
| 1132415345 | exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 61 | |
| 1132415346 | dramatic irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 62 | |
| 1132415347 | verbal irony | when there is a discrepancy between what is said and what was actually meant | 63 | |
| 1132415348 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 64 | |
| 1132807228 | Five modes of characterization | Diction, How they think, How others feel about them, Physical appearance, and actions | 65 | |
| 1132807229 | Requiem | Song or prayer for the dead | 66 | |
| 1132807230 | Naive Hero | has good intentions, but lacks good judgement and/or is unsophisticated | 67 | |
| 1132807231 | Euphamism | polite way to say something unpleasant, shocking, or offensive | 68 | |
| 1132807232 | Epiphany | light-bulb moment where a deep realization is actualized | 69 |
