AP Lit Vocab Flashcard

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Mood of a story

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Emotions audience feels from a given passage.

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Tone is best described as:

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the author's attitude toward his writing.

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Define allusion.

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A figure of speech referring to a well-known story, event, person, or object from history for comparison.

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Allusion to Romeo and Juliet in unhealthy lovers' context.

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Hints their relationship may end miserably like Romeo and Juliet's.

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Role of imagery in understanding a story?

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Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see.

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Figurative language in: 'The girl could smell the fresh lavender as she glided through the beautiful garden of delicate flowers.'

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Imagery

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Elements of direct characterization:

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Author explicitly tells a trait about the character.

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Protagonist description

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The main character

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Antagonist in a story:

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The person or thing opposing the main character.

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Jack's strange look at his sister after she added ketchup to her milk demonstrates which type of characterization?

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indirect