AP Lit

a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.

• protagonist

• foil

• nemesis

• antagonist

a literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

• mood

• diction

• tone

• point of view

a literary device in which a line of poetry carries its idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause.

• enjambment

• end-stop

• end rhyme

• line break

a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

• allegory

• antidote

• allusion

• malapropism

A story that begins in the middle of things.

• Prologue

• Epilogue

• In medias res

• Personification

__________________ - having mixed feelings or contrasting ideas about something or someone.

________________ - to speak or treat slightingly; depreciate, belittle, lower estimation, discredit

_______________ - erase from surface (or) to make oneself appear insignificant/inconspicuous.

______________ - (vb) have an angry/sullen look on ones face

- (n) an angry/sullen look

________________ - praise enthusiastically