AP Lit Vocabulary 1

the main idea of the story

• Theme

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a literary work in which the characters represent abstract ideas; a symbolic representation

• Aesthetic

• Alliteration

• Archaism

• Allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered

• Refrain

• Rhetorical Question

• Requiem

• Rhapsody

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the use of deliberately old-fashioned language

• Assonance

• Ballad

• Archaism

• Cacophony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure

• Hubris

• Travesty

• Lampoon

• Melodrama

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Cinquain

• Triplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the final syllable of the first word rhymes with the final syllable of the second word (for example: scald recalled)

• Feminine Rhyme

• Masculine Rhyme

• Near Rhyme

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

• Homonym

• Homophone

• Cacophony

• Euphony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

a novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action

• Picaresque Novel

• Postapocalyptic Novel

• Gothic Novel

• Historical Novel

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

• Farce

• Foil

• Foot

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5