Hunter & Venuti AP Lit. Terms List 4 (44-58)

What is satire?

• The use of literary devices to create cinematic, rich images
• The use of incongruity, irony, parody, exaggeration to mock vices and folly
• The use of personification and metaphor to create a unified tone and theme
• A form of zeitgeist

Shifts in the mood, or tone, as the story progresses are considered what type of shifts?

• tonal shifts

• narrative shifts

• super shifts

• stream of consciousness shifts

Shifts in Point of View which show different perspectives of characters in a literary piece are what type of shifts?

• tonal shifts

• narrative shifts

• stream of consciousness shifts

Random flow of thoughts in the human mind

• syntax

• stream of consciousness

• subtext

• synecdoche

What is a symbol?

• a figurative person, place, or thing

• a person place or thing in a story that has both a literal and metaphorical meaning

• a metaphor

• a repeated phrase

Which is the best definition of synesthesia?

• Surprising the reader with a detail that seems out of place

• Borrowing words from another language to express an emotion

• Using sensory details to vividly create an experience in language

• Applying language that usually describes one sense to a different sense

the central idea or message of a work. May be directly stated in nonfiction works, although not necessarily. It is rarely stated directly in fiction.

• theme

• mood

• motif

• symbol

Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words"?

• point of view
• tone
• complex attitude
• speaker

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• She wilted like a flower.

• The flowers smiled and danced in the garden.

• Your beauty is that of a rose.

• Red roses ring the flower bed.

phrases or lines of poetry repeated in the poem

• refrain

• enjambment

• verse

• stanza