Ap Literature

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Allegory

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a story in which characters and events represent qualities or concepts.

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Ex.The Hunger Games: This trilogy of Young Adult books (and now blockbuster movies) is an allegory for our obsession with reality television and how it numbs us to reality.

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Allusion

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Figure of speech which makes brief reference to a historical or literacy figure, event, or object.

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Ex. "Don't act like a Romeo in front of her" .

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Ambiguity

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An idea which gives more than one meaning and leaves uncertainty as to the exact meaning.

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Ex.A good life depends on a liver – Liver may be an organ or simply a living person.

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Analogy

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A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

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Ex. Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

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Antagonist

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The character or force in a narrative or play in conflict with the main character.

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Ex. The joker was the antagonist against batman.

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Anticlimax

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Using a sequence of ideas that abruptly diminish in dignity or importance at the end of a sentence; generally for satirical effect.

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Ex.The death of bill in kill bill 2 was an anticlimax .

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Anti-hero

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A protagonist who is the antithesis of the hero--graceless, inept, stupid, sometimes dishonest or criminal.

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The green goblin in spiderman.

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Archetype

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A recurring pattern of situations, character, or symbols that are instinctively in the collective unconscious of man.

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Ex. The Hero: He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society e.g. Beowulf, Hercules, D’artagnan from “The Three Musketeers” etc.

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Atmosphere

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The emotional mood created by a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects or events that are described.

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A funeral makes a sad depressing atmosphere

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Attitude

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The position assumed in connection with an action, feeling , or mood.

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Characterization

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The techniques employed by authors to develop characters:actions,descriptions, dialogue, thoughts, and inferences.

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Cliché

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An overused, worn out, hackneyed expression that is copied or repeated.

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Climax

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The turning point, or crisis, in a play or other pieces of literature.

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Colloquialism

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The use of slang or informal language.Not acceptable for formal writing.

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Complication

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The part of a plot in which the entanglement caused by the conflict is developed.

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Conflict

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4 types: person vs.person, person vs. Society, person vs. Self,person vs.nature.

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Connotation

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The emotional implications that a word may carry.

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Denotation

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The specific, exact meaning of a word.

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Denouement

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The resolution or conclusion of a plot (french word).

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Device

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A plan. Something used to gain an artistic effect in writing.

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Diction

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An author's choice of words.(slang, dialect, formal language).

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Dramatic Irony

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Irony in which the audience knows important details about the plot that the characters do not know.

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Extended parallelism

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The repetition of words or gramatical elements to achieve cumulative force and rhythm.

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Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor developed at a great length, occuring frequently in or throughout a work.

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Existentialism

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A term applied to a group of attitudes whuch emphasize existence rather than essence, and sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe.