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However, genres can be subdivided as well (poetry can be classified into lyric, dramatic, narrative, etc.). The AP Language exam deals primarily with the following genres: autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, essays, and journalistic, political, scientific, and nature writing.
A P LITERARY TERMS. ALLEGORY story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. ALLITERATION repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
AP ENGLISH GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS 1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE There are several kinds of figurative language, also known as “figures of speech,” with metaphor and simile being the most common and best known. Other figures of speech include: • hyperbole (deliberate overstatement, i.e., calling a paper cut “a gaping wound.”)
8 Μαΐ 2012 · AP ENGLISH LITERATURE: LITERARY TERMS ACTION: The bare events in a story. Action should not be confused with plot. Plot includes the meaning and purpose of the events. The action in Hamlet, for example, simply begins with the guards' visitation by the Ghost and ends with the carrying out of the dead Hamlet.
Aspects of Diction. Abstract Diction—words that express ideas or concepts: love, time, truth. Abstract diction, leaves out some characteristics found in each individual, and instead observes a quality common to many. The word beauty, for instance, denotes what may be observed in numerous persons, places, and things.
LITERARY TERMS For AP ENGLISH LITERATURE. Allegory-The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. Alliteration-The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry. ie. Marilyn Monroe.
free verse - unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, containing no specific metrical pattern. genre – a specific kind or category of literature, e.g., mystery story, sonnet, romance novel
