AP Lit

"My opponent suggests that lowering taxes will be a good idea -- this is coming from a woman who eats a pint of Ben and Jerry’s each night!"

• The American Dream

• abstract language

• ambiguity

• ad hominem

the series of events that constitute the plot, composed of a beginning, a middle, and an end

• action

• absurd

• ad hominem

• allusion

The Wizard of Oz - The lion represents cowardice. The scarecrow stands for the agrarian past and the tin man the technological future.

• allusion

• allegory

• anachronism

Chocolate is my Achilles' heel

• allusion

• allegory

• ambiguity

Which work that you've read in high school shows the destruction of the "American Dream"

• The Scarlet Letter

• The Great Gatsby

• Dante's Inferno

• Macbeth

having more than one meaning, whether intentional or unintentional

• ambivalence

• ambiguity

• absurd

The feeling that a word creates; the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning

• diction

• connotation

• denotation

• euphamism

Diction is best defined as

• figurative language

• word choice

• unimportant

• the dictionary definition of words

words that express ideas or concepts: love, time, truth

• concrete

• diction

• abstract

• bombast

old-fashioned language. (Thee, thou, thine, ye olde)

• archaic

• bombast

• cliche

• portmanteau