AP Lit Terms 6-30

6.ANALYSIS: Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation.


7.ANAPHORA: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.


8.ANECDOTE: A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.


9.ANTAGONIST:A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary


10.ANTITHESIS: contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. It is the juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to their contrasting ideas and give the effect of balance. This is a device often used in rhetoric.


11.APHORISM: A pithy observation that contains a general truth.


12.APOLOGIA:

A formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct.

13.APOSTROPHE: An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) 

14.ARGUMENT(ATION):

A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.

15.ASSUMPTION: A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof: "they made certain assumptions about the market".

16.AUDIENCE: The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, etc.

17.CHARACTERIZATION: The means by which an author reveals their character

18.CHIASMUS: 

2. A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.

   

   
   

   
   

   19.CIRCUMLOCUTION: 

   The use of many words where fewer would do, esp. in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.

   
3. 20.CLASSICISM: The following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature
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5. 21.CLICHE: a phrase or situation overused within society.
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7. 22.CLIMAX:

   The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.

   

23. COLLOQUIALISM: Slang words or informal way of speech 

24.COMEDY:

A movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.

25.CONFLICT: Struggle or problem in a story causing tension

26.CONNOTATIONAn idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning

27.CONTRAST: where one item is thrown at another to prove clarity 

28.DENOTATION: Plain dictionary definition

29. DENOUEMENT:The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved.

30. DIALECT:language or certain people distinguishing them from others.