AP Literature Vocabulary

a narrator whose credibility is compromised

• narrator

• tragic flaw

• unreliable narrator

• anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy

• tragic flaw

• personification

• opposition

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

the main idea or underlying meaning

• motif

• cadence

• theme

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

a part is made to represent the whole

• connotation

• irony

• metonymy

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

something that represents something else

• symbolism

• motif

• cacophony

• colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator

• hubris

• in medias res

• stream of consciousness

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

thoughts spoken out loud without addressing another

• dramatic monologue

• soliloquy

• speech

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• parody

• comparison

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices

• satire

• tragic flaw

• parody

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

extended, emotional piece of literature

• dramatic monologue

• rhapsody

• analogy

• cadence

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.5