AP Lit Terms 6-30

Analogy:

 

Analysis:



 

Anaphora:

 

Anecdote:

My sons are very tall. When my oldest boy was getting taller and taller, people always asked him, "Do you play basketball?" He would answer, "Why? Do you play miniature golf?" He stopped saying that when he decided it was a smart aleck thing to say. To this day when little kids ask him how he got so tall he says, "I always ate all my vegetables."

Antagonist:
--Dracula (Bram Stoker's "Dracula")
--Edmund (William Shakespeare's "King Lear")
--Fagin (Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist")
--Grendel ("Beowulf")
--Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello")
--Long John Silver (Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island")
--Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
--Professor Moriarty (Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" series)
--Raskolnikov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment")
--Simon Legree (Harriett Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
--Uriah Heep (Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield")
--The Wicked Witch of the West (L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz")

Antithesis:
Hot Cold
Ebony and Ivory
Black and White
Bitter-sweet
Student Teacher
Cold as Hell
Pretty Ugly
Delightfully Wicked
The Agony of Ecstacy
Act Naturally
Accidentally on Purpose
Idiot Savant
Lets agree to disagree
Aphorism:
Science is organized knowledge. — Herbert Spencer
Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin
Greed is a permanent slavery. — Ali
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation. — Husayn ibn Ali
Apologia:

Apostrophe:

"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1

"And you, Eumaeus..." the Odyssey

"O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle.

Argument(ation):

Assumption:

1. I made the assumption that he was coming, so I was surprised when he didn't show up.
2. He will come home tomorrow. At least, that's my assumption.
3. Many scientific assumptions about Mars were wrong.
4. I'm telling you our arrival time on the assumption that you will check to see whether or not our flight is on time before you come to the airport.
5. Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future.
6. her assumption of the presidency
7. the buyer's assumption of debt

Audience:


Characterization:
-The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother, is an example of direct characterization.
So, if you were to say, That is a very nice table, then the noun, being the table and the adjective, being nice.

Chiasmus:

 

Circumlocation:

 

"Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmast'red importunity." William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Bright Tithonia had brought out her laboring chariot from the sky and Night and Sleep with empty horn were fleeing the wakeful reins of the pale goddess." Statius describing 'it was dawn'

"Close by those meads, forever crowned with flowers,
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers,
There stands a structure of majestic frame,
Which for the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name."
from “The Rape of the Lock” Pope

 

Classicism:



Cliche:
"Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today"; "As easy as pie"; "There's no place like home"; "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"; "Many hands make light work".

Climax:

 

Colloquialism:

 

1) grub - can mean either dirty child or food. eg He is a little grub. The grub was great.

2) maggot bag - a meat pie, single serve size. eg Are you eating a maggot bag again?

3) Kid - a child. I have one kid, it's a boy.

4) adam's ale - water. eg I had a drink of adam's ale.

5) knickers - underpants. eg It was so frightening I got skidd marks in my knickers.

 

 

Comedy:

 

 



 

Conflict:

 

Connotation: