AP Literature Terms for Quiz

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The twenty-eight eyes were expecting something from me.

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synecdoche

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"thy wring-world right-foot rock"

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alliteration

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the emotional charge of a word; its implications beyond the literal

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connotation

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"My more than sister, since she was until death to be mine only."

Clues about later plot points...

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Foreshadowing

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Suddenly I was in that room again. Fall of 1982, and I had just learned the word "the."

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Flashback

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A story that provides a context in which the main story is told (i.e., Robert Walton's voyage in Frankenstein)

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Frame Story

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The voice of a poem; usually not the author

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speaker

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The voice telling the story in a novel or other prose writing

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narrator

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A personality the author assumes to tell the story

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persona

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Well, I thought to myself, at least Quizziz is easy to use. Hopefully, this will help AP Lit on their literary terms test.

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