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Set 1 Literary Terms AP TEST Practice

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The interpretation or analysis of a text
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Short tale often featuring nonhuman characters that act as people
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Lyric poem that describes an ideal life/place
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A belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential/creativity
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Repetition of vowel sounds
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Excessive pride that leads tragic heroes to their death
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Comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious or scornful purpose
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Poem or prose that laments the dead
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Told by a character involved in the story; uses first-person pronouns such as I/we
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A series of comparisons between two unlike objects
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A forceful sermon, lecture, tirade
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Comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things
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A story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or ethical meaning.
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In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them.
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When the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character
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The background/events leading to the main purpose of a work of literature
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A concise but ingenious, witty, thoughtful statement.
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A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea.
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An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example
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Minor character whose personality or attitude contrasts with the main character
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2 rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter
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Plot events that occur after the climax and lead to story's conclusion
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Novel in which supernatural horrors and atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action
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The high point or turning point of a story/play
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Used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, poem
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Metaphors, similes, personification, etc.
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Word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or felt
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IMPLIES meaning, as opposed to LITERAL language, which denotes meaning.
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The implied meaning of a word or phrase (vs.denotation)
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The resolution that occurs at the end of a play/fiction
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Extended narrative poem that tell the adventures and exploits or a hero. Generally larger than life. (e.g. Homer's Iliad or Odyssey)
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Unit of stressed and unstressed syllables (u /)
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Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
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Vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation.
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Story with unreal/imaginary features
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The choice of words in speech/writing. It creates meaning, portrays characters, conveys tone, develops themes.