AP Lit. & Comp. Literacy Terms II

What is meant by connotation?

• literature that plays on a reader's emotions

• refers to the emotions and associations that a particular word or phrase brings forth; an idea that is implied or suggested

• work written in the form of conversation

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

In literature, who is the narrator?

• always the 1st person account of a story

• a person who tells a story or gives an account of something; may or may not be a character

• the antagonist is always the narrator

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is an an example.

• Alexandrine

• Ballad

• Antithesis

• Anapest

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CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Words that imitate sounds

• Diction
• Onomatopoeia
• Synecdoche
• Allegory

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part

• Analogy
• Archetype
• Synecdoche
• Idiom

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A statement that seems contradictory, but in fact expresses a truth.

• Paradox
• Parody
• Allegory
• Motif

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech that has a contradictory idea (i.e., random pattern).

• Idiom
• Oxymoron
• Euphemism
• Analogy

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

a poetry paragraph 

• onomatopoeia
• stanza
• semantics
• syntax

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Home: where one resides or lives

• connotation
• denotation
• syntax
• rhetoric

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the perspective from which the story is told. Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

• climax
• point of view
• description
• opinion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3