This collection of vocabulary will help us prepare for the AP Literature and AP Language and Composition tests.
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| 8673087916 | Fable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) noun | 0 | |
| 8673087917 | Verbal Irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought | 1 | |
| 8673087918 | Situational Irony | involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 2 | |
| 8673087919 | Dramatic Irony | inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 3 | |
| 8673087920 | DIDLS | Diction-Image-Details-Language-Sentence Structure - DIDLS is one technique for analyzing literature by carefully examining five aspects of the writing. Can I apply DIDLS successfully to a piece of writing to unlock the meaning and tone? | 4 | |
| 8673087921 | Concrete Language | Language that describes details and specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than abstract ideas or qualities. The yellow, chemically created haze replaced blue puffy clouds in the sky over Fuxingmen in Beijing on March 15, 2013. | 5 | |
| 8673087922 | Abstract Language | Language describing general ideas and abstract qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places. The pollution was heavy in Beijing. (Pollution is an abstract idea, and no details are provided about the situation.) | 6 | |
| 8673087923 | Connotation | An idea that is implied or suggested or the feeling of a word is the connotation. The feeling of a word is not in the dictionary. A connotation of a word is often learned by living in a culture and using a word in daily life. | 7 | |
| 8673087924 | Denotation | The most direct meaning of a word or expression found in the dictionary. | 8 | |
| 8673087925 | Diction | A writer or speaker's choice of words- informal, formal, slang, jargon, dialect or vulgar language- are all examples of diction and help create the tone of a piece of writing. The national anthems of both China and the United States are written in formal diction. | 9 | |
| 8673087926 | Tone | An author's feeling or emotion about a topic in a short story or novel is the tone of the piece. Authors create tone in their writing by using details, images, sentence structure, language, diction, and language. Can you detect an author's tone by using the DIDLS strategy? | 10 | |
| 8673087927 | Characterization | The act of describing distinctive characteristics or personality traits of a character in a story is called characterization. A character's clothing, speech-diction, friends, actions, conversations and thoughts are all a part of characterization. | 11 | |
| 8673087928 | First Person Point of View | The narrator is a character in the story and uses words like I, me, or we. The character sees and describes the world through his or her own eyes. | 12 | |
| 8673087929 | Third Person Point of View | The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "he," "she," and "it" when referring to a person, place, thing, or idea. | 13 | |
| 8673087930 | Omniscient Narrator | Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding: A narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters. | 14 | |
| 8673087931 | Rhetoric | Rhetoric is the study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking). When Brutus and Antony are speaking to the crowd about Julius Caesar's death, they both use rhetoric including ethos, pathos and logos to convince the crowd to believe the assassination of Caesar was either honorable or criminal. | 15 | |
| 8673087932 | Ethos | The appeal of a text or speaker to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator. Brutus tries to convince the crowd that Caesar's death was necessary and that he is an honorable man. Brutus uses his honorable character as a reason to justify the necessity of Caesar's death. | 16 | |
| 8673087933 | Pathos | The appeal of a text or speaker that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) in the reader or listener. When Antony said his heart was in the coffin with Caesar because he loved Caesar, Antony is using emotion to manipulate the feelings of the crowd. | 17 | |
| 8673087934 | Logos | An appeal in a text or by a speaker based on logic or reason. Facts and statistics are an example of logos that a writer or speaker would use to persuade the audience. | 18 | |
| 8673087935 | Traits | The special quailty of a character. For example the character might be selfish, brave or evil. | 19 | |
| 8673087936 | Direct characterization | The writer describes a character's traits. | 20 | |
| 8673087937 | Indirect characterization | The writer lets us see the character in action and let us infer what the character's traits are. | 21 | |
| 8673087938 | Motivations | The reasons fictional characters have for behaving the way they do. | 22 | |
| 8673087939 | Protagonist | The main character of the story. | 23 | |
| 8673087940 | Antagonist | The character who prevents the protagonist from getting what he or she wants. | 24 | |
| 8673087941 | Flat character | A two-dimensional character with only one or two key personality traits. | 25 | |
| 8673087942 | Round character | A round character is the dimensions of a person from real life, with many traits and complexities. | 26 | |
| 8673087943 | Stock character | A character that fits our preconceived notions of a "type". Like a mad scientist. | 27 | |
| 8673087944 | Conflict | Conflict is the struggle at the heart of every story and is closely tied to character motivation. | 28 | |
| 8673087945 | Symbolism | Writers use symbols to invest objects, events, settings, animals, or people with deeper connections and associations. In a story a symbol can be setting, character, object, name, or anything that has a literal meaning while also suggesting a deeper meaning. | 29 | |
| 8673087946 | Allegory | An allegory is a type of story in which all the characters symbolize certain voices and virtues. | 30 | |
| 8673087947 | Fables | Fables is one of the examples of allegories, it uses animal characters to teach practical lessons. | 31 | |
| 8673087948 | Parables | Parables is another example of allegories, it uses everyday situations to teach lessons about ethics or morality. | 32 | |
| 8673087949 | Plot | The plot of a story is a series of related events. | 33 | |
| 8673087950 | Basic situation | Also called "exposition", it is a synopsis or a brief explanation of what happens in the story | 34 | |
| 8673087951 | Conflict | the problem or problems characters face in a literary work | 35 | |
| 8673087952 | Complication | An element of a plot that alters the conflict. | 36 | |
| 8673087953 | Climax | the point of highest interest, the conflict must be resolved one way or another or a character begins to take action to end the conflict | 37 | |
| 8673087954 | Resolution | the final unraveling or solution of the plot | 38 | |
| 8673087955 | Chronological sequence | a following of one thing after another in time | 39 | |
| 8673087956 | Flashback | A literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the chronological sequence of a narrative. | 40 | |
| 8673087957 | Foreshadowing | the act of providing vague advance indications | 41 | |
| 8673087958 | Suspense | Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story | 42 | |
| 8673087959 | Internal conflict | a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character | 43 | |
| 8673087960 | External conflict | a problem or struggle between a character and someone or something outside of the character | 44 | |
| 8673087961 | Setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | 45 | |
| 8673087962 | Mood | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | 46 |
