AP Literature Vocabulary

_______________ - to hunt or search tenaciously for and find something

________________ - (especially of an actor) portray emotion in a theatrical manner.

_________________ - inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

________________ - so lacking in originality as to be wasteful and boring.

________________ - recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

an emotional or psychological cleansing that brings relief or renewal

• catharsis

• anecdote

• caricature

• cadence

the use of deliberately old-fashioned language

• aside

• archaism

• cacophony

• symbolism

harsh, jarring, discordant consonant sounds

• cacophony

• cadence

• point of view

• colloquialism

any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.

• ballad

• allegory

• selection of detail

• imagery

the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects

• symbolism

• simile

• anthropomorphism

• metaphor