AP Lit terms List 1
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| author's attitude toward her subject, derived from analyzing literary devices such as diction and imagery | ||
| common everyday language | ||
| saying one thing when you really mean another | ||
| cliched; full of empty sayings that are stale and meaningless | ||
| saying less than you mean for effect; opposite of hyperbole | ||
| a word or phrase that is later replaced by a pronoun or other term | ||
| without bias; without judgment; based on fact | ||
| seen through someone's experience; open to interpretation | ||
| eliminating a syllable from a word; used in poetry especially | ||
| serious play about the downfall of a tragic hero; it arouses pity and fear and produces a catharsis | ||
| reversing the normal, expected order of words in a sentence or of meter in a poem; allows for emphasis of certain words | ||
| not stated; hinted at | ||
| fully and clearly stated, supported, or demonstrated | ||
| omitting words from a sentence that are needed for full clarity, but that can be understood without the word(s) | ||
| the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or lines or poetry; it is balanced and suggests a correspondence to each otehr | ||
| come to a conclusion or judgment based on evidence presented |