AP Literature Vocabulary

a narrator whose credibility is compromised

• narrator

• tragic flaw

• unreliable narrator

• anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy

• tragic flaw

• personification

• opposition

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

the main idea or underlying meaning

• motif

• cadence

• theme

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a part is made to represent the whole

• connotation

• irony

• metonymy

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

something that represents something else

• symbolism

• motif

• cacophony

• colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator

• hubris

• in medias res

• stream of consciousness

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

thoughts spoken out loud without addressing another

• dramatic monologue

• soliloquy

• speech

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• parody

• comparison

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices

• satire

• tragic flaw

• parody

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

extended, emotional piece of literature

• dramatic monologue

• rhapsody

• analogy

• cadence

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9