AP Literature Terms. Understandable definitions, rated A. LATEST REVIEW.
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AP Literature Terms. Understandable definitions, rated A. LATEST REVIEW.
Abstract - Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points.
Academic - Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis.
Acce...
AP Literature Terms. Understandable
definitions, rated A. LATEST REVIEW.
Abstract - ✔👉Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to
support its points.
Academic - ✔👉Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis.
Accent - ✔👉In poetry, the stressed portion of a word.
Aesthetic - ✔👉Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste.
Allegory - ✔👉A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.
Alliteration - ✔👉The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Allusion - ✔👉A reference to another work or famous figure.
Anachronism - ✔👉"Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time
setting.
Analogy - ✔👉A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action
or a relationship.
Anecdote - ✔👉A Short Narrative
Antecedent - ✔👉The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to.
, Anthropomorphism - ✔👉When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with
personification.
Anticlimax - ✔👉Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect.
Antihero - ✔👉A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any
number of other unsavory qualities.
Aphorism - ✔👉A short and usually witty saying.
Apostrophe - ✔👉A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman.
Archaism - ✔👉The use of deliberately old-fashioned language.
Aside - ✔👉A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though
momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage.
Aspect - ✔👉A trait or characteristic
Assonance - ✔👉The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."
Atmosphere - ✔👉The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene
Ballad - ✔👉A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality.
Bathos - ✔👉Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker.
Pathos - ✔👉Writing evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy.
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