AP Lit Review

What does Character Allegory mean?

• character traits
• Characters often represent various ideal qualities
• symbolism or underlying meaning
• When a characters  says something different from what is meant

What does Synecdoche mean?

• The use of a part for the whole
• A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else
• Saying less that the situation warrants
• Essentially a metaphor that uses “like or as”

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does Connotation mean?

• Voice of the writer
• Specific effects of word choice
• Emotional sense of a word or the cultural meaning associated with a word
• Mood is related to tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is Organinc imagery?

• internal sense of being (well or ill)
• sense of movement
• what we can smell
• what we can hear

What does Periodic mean?

• the repetition of the same word and words at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences
• conjunctions are omitted between words, phrases, or clause
• Most important idea comes at the end of sentence
• Sometimes called a balanced sentence

What does Epistrophe mean?

• Most important idea comes at the end of sentence
• the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses
• Attitude of the speaker toward another character, place, and idea or a thing
• Voice is precise and relies on the language of science

What does Polysyndeton mean?

• 1 subject, 1 verb, modifiers, complements.
• two corresponding pairs ordered this way a/b/b/a
  
• Contains an independent clause and a (dependent) subordinate clause
• the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clauses

Where can the position be located in a sentence?

• Where the key idea is located
• In the speed of the text
• In the tone of the narrator
• Always at the end

Epistolary Novel ?

• Presents readers with an apparent perfect (utopian) society where human life is somehow diminished
• Prose fiction longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel
• Consists of letter written by one or more characters
• An episodic novel (sting of episodes or adventures)

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Apostrophe?

• Characters often represent various ideal qualities
• Addressing something (or someone) nonliving or incapable of response as if it could hear and respond
• Discrepancy between what is perceived and what is real
• When reader knows something a character does not know