English AP Literary terms
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| the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | ||
| a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | ||
| a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | ||
| the character that the main character (protagonist) struggles against. | ||
| a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | ||
| words with opposite meanings | ||
| a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | ||
| a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work | ||
| a short speech, delivered to the audience or to another character, that others onstage are not supposed to hear. | ||
| the intended reader of a piece | ||
| the point of highest interest in a literary work | ||
| a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | ||
| a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | ||
| a struggle between two forces. An external conflict can take place between two characters; between a character and a group; between a character and society as a whole; or between a character and an animal or a force of nature. | ||
| An internal conflict is a struggle that takes place within a character's mind or heart. In an internal conflict, a character might struggle with paralyzing fear or a need for revenge | ||
| details that relate to or describe actual, specific things or events | ||
| the implied or associative meaning of a word | ||
| how the author gets the point across | ||
| a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | ||
| The literal meaning of a word | ||
| conversation between two or more people | ||
| the word choices made by a writer | ||
| the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced for the context ("Some people prefer cats; others, dogs.") | ||
| a long narrative poem written in elevated style which present the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation | ||
| a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark | ||
| a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | ||
| a story that concerns an unreal world or contains unreal characters; a fantasy may be merely whimsical, or it may present a serious point | ||
| a story that is not true or is made up | ||
| the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative | ||
| a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | ||
| A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only | ||
| the presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work | ||
| a major category or type of literature | ||
| excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | ||
| Intentional exaggeration to create an effect | ||
| an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of the words in the expression; or, a regional speech or dialect | ||
| a suggestion an author or speaker makes (implies) without stating it directly. NOTE: the author/sender implies; the reader/audience infers. | ||
| a conclusion one draws (infers) based on premises or evidence | ||
| the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens | ||
| a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character |