Ap English Midterm Lit term review

150276014	Allegory	Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas and qualities.
150276015	Allusion	a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
150276016	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.
150276017	Analogy	Comparison made between to things to show how they are alike
150276018	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent.
150276019	Anastrophe	inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence
150276020	Anecdote	brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something
150276021	Antimetabole	repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
150276022	Antithesis	Balancing words, phrases, or ideas, that are strongly contrasted often by means of grammatical structure
150276023	Anthropomorphism	Attributing human characteristics to an animal or in animate object
150276024	Apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.
150276025	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together
150276026	Asyndeton	commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally
150276027	Direct Characterization	the author tells us directly what the character is like
150276028	Static Character	a character who does not change much in the course of a story
150276029	Dynamic Character	is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's actions
150276030	Chiasmus	in poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed.
150276031	Cliche	a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.
150276032	Colloquialism	a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations
150276033	Conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares 2 things that are startlingly different
150276034	Diction	a writer's choice of words
150276035	Didactic	teaches a lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking
150276036	Epanalepsis	device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence.
150276037	Epigraph	a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme
150276038	Epistrophe	device of repetition in which the same expression or word is repeated at the end of two or more lines
150276039	Epithet	an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or things that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality
150276040	Explication	act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention
150276041	Farce	a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly far fetched situations.
150276042	Hyperbole	incredible exaggeration or overstatement
150276043	Hypotactic	sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them
150276044	Inversion	the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
150276045	Juxtaposition	normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one and another, creating an effect of surprise or wit
150276046	Litotes	form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form
150276047	Local Color	places special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape
150276048	Loose Sentence	one in which the main clause comes first
150276049	Meaphor	comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as
150276050	Metonymy	a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it
150276051	Motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, action, or object used throughout a work
150276052	Oxymoron	combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
150276053	Paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth
150276054	Parallel Structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
150276055	Paratactic Sentence	simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences
150276056	Periodic	sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence
150276057	Personification	object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
150276058	Polysyndeton	sentence that uses a conjunction with No commas
150276059	Rhetorical Question	a question asked for an effect and not actually requiring an answer
150276060	Satire	ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change
150276061	Simile	makes a comparison using like or as
150276062	Stream of Consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind
150276063	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole
150276064	Syntactic Fluency	ability to create a variety of sentence structures
150276065	Syntactic Permutation	sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved
150276066	Telegraphic Sentence	a sentence shorter than 5 words in length
150276067	Tricolon	sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually 3 independent clauses
150276068	Understatement	a statement that says less than what is meant
150276069	Unity	related to 1 central idea or organizing principle
150276070	Vernacular	the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality