AP ELEMENTS

What is Satire?

• genre of sad and descriptive writing

• rhyming throughout a whole piece of writing

• genre of humorous and mocking criticism to expose society

• Overstating a situation for humor/ drama effect

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is an Idiom?

• phrase that signifies something very different than its literal meaning

• phrase that signifies something that is not very smart

• phrase that means your identity

• phrase that is used to describe a sound

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is Onomatopoeia?

• An authors unique sound

• Using sound effect words

• Using descriptive words

• An authors way of explaining a problem

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a Hyperbole?

• Saying the opposite of what you mean

• Speaking in an exciting tone in an essay

• Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together

• Overstating a situation for humor/ drama effect

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

How is Alliteration used?

• Using words that rhyme

• Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together

• Using words that are opposite to one another

• Using very descriptive words

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Define Voice in writing.

• An authors unique sound

• An authors unique life

• Talking in an aggressive manor in writing

• Talking sarcastically in writing

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is juxtaposition?

• is the use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing.

• a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

• a witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody; particularly by making use of terms that give an impression that something is less important than it is or it should be.

• a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is characterization?

• originally referred to a ghost, or shadow of a person; but in modern times it simply refers to a person that is a look-alike of another person.

• a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character. The objective is to highlight the traits of the other character.

• It can be defined in a literary work as a voice or an assumed role of a character, which represents the thoughts of a writer, or a specific person the writer wants to present as his mouthpiece.

• a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence.

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is dialogue?

• a literary technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another. In literature, it is a conversational passage, or a spoken or written exchange of conversation in a group, or between two persons directed towards a particular subject.

• a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character.

• refers to polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant.

• a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation, such as “Oh.” A writer or speaker, using this, speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is imagery?

• an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.

• a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle.

• to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses: sight, sound, feel, taste, smell.

• a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5