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Microsoft Word - A P LITERARY TERMS.doc. 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. EXAMPLE: Animal Farm; Dante’s Inferno; Lord of the Flies.
The AP Language exam deals primarily with the following genres: autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, essays, and journalistic, political, scientific, and nature writing. Gothic – Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death.
Your knowledge of these terms will be expected for answering multiple-choice questions, analyzing prose passages, and composing your essays in AP English Language and Composition. Allegory – a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions.
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.
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.”)
AP Literature Terms. anaphora – the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses for rhetorical or poetic effect, as in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: We cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow this ground....
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.
