AP Literature #1 Flashcards
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14684797784 | Allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work | 0 | |
14684797785 | Attitude | The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author, or character | 1 | |
14684797786 | Details | the individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 2 | |
14684797787 | Devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry | 3 | |
14684797788 | Diction | Word choice | 4 | |
14684797789 | Figurative Language | Writing that uses figures of speech | 5 | |
14684797790 | Imagery | The images created by a literary work | 6 | |
14684797791 | Irony | A figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning differ | 7 | |
14684797792 | Metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than." | 8 | |
14684797793 | Narrative | the methods involved in telling a story | 9 | |
14684797794 | Omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses | 10 | |
14684797795 | Point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told | 11 | |
14684797796 | resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use | 12 | |
14684797797 | Rhetorical techniques | the devices used in effective or persuasive language | 13 | |
14684797798 | Satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule | 14 |