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Showing posts with label AP Literature Terms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AP Literature Terms. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Terms 101-the rest



Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

Monday, February 11, 2013

82-100 terms



Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

56-81 Lit terms


Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

LIT TERMS 31-55


Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

LIT TERMS 1-5

Guess that lit TERM?!


Allegory


Alliteration

"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. 
You take the red pill, you stay awake in wonderland and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."-The Matrix referencing Alice in Wonderland

Allusion


Ambiguity


Anachronism