AP Lit Vocab

Ode

• A familiar proverb or wise saying

• A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.

• An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.

• A formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject.

Chiasmus

• A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. ("All hands on deck" is an example.)

• A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."

• the release of emotion that the audience of a tragedy experiences.

• The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences.

lyric poetry

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought

• A type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world.

• A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. ("All hands on deck" is an example.)

synecdoche

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought

• A type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world.

• A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. ("All hands on deck" is an example.)

Dissonance

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• Harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds.

• The pleasant, mellifluous (soothing) presentation of sounds in a literary work

• A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. ("All hands on deck" is an example.)

Bathos

• Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to invoke pity.

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.

• A Greek invention, literally "the god from the machine" who appears at the last moment and resolves the loose ends of a play. Today, the term refers to anyone, usually of some stature, who untangles, resolves, or reveals, the key to the plot of a work.

Idyll

• Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to invoke pity.

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.

• A Greek invention, literally "the god from the machine" who appears at the last moment and resolves the loose ends of a play. Today, the term refers to anyone, usually of some stature, who untangles, resolves, or reveals, the key to the plot of a work.

Deus ex machina

• Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to invoke pity.

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.

• A Greek invention, literally "the god from the machine" who appears at the last moment and resolves the loose ends of a play. Today, the term refers to anyone, usually of some stature, who untangles, resolves, or reveals, the key to the plot of a work.

Archetype

• Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to invoke pity.

• A type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time.

• A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.

• A Greek invention, literally "the god from the machine" who appears at the last moment and resolves the loose ends of a play. Today, the term refers to anyone, usually of some stature, who untangles, resolves, or reveals, the key to the plot of a work.

Capricious

• a letter or a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters.

• a home providing care for the sick or terminally ill.

• given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.

• alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.