Here are literary terms
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Literary Terms
AP Literature and Composition. Mr Mahoney
Here is a shortened list, with most important ones in bold.
Guaranteed to be on the test are in italics
Drama
Catharsis
Comedy
Comic relief
Denouement
Dues ex machina
Epilogue
Exposition
Farce
Foil
Hamartia/Tragic Error or Flaw
Hubris
Mimesis
Monologue
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Tragedy
Tragic Hero
Villain
Elements of Style
Archetype
Colloquial
Connotation
Denotation
Dialect
Didactic
Diction
Epigram
Inversion
Irony: Dramatic, Situational, Verbal
Mood
Paradox
Proverb
Tone
Fiction
Anecdote
Flashback
Point of view: First person, Objective, Omniscient, Limited Third person, Unlimited
Stream-of-consciousness
Theme
Figures of Speech
Allusion
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Metonymy
Personification
Simile
Symbol
Synecdoche
Form
Allegory
Anecdote
Fable
Genre
Parable
Prose
Verse
Poetry
Alliteration
Assonance
Blank verse
Cadence
Caesura
Conceit
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet
Dissonance
Dramatic monologue
Elegy
End-stop line
Enjambment
Free verse
Iambic Pentameter
Lyric
Motif
Octave
Ode
Persona
Quatrain
Refrain
Repetition
Rhyme: End, Internal
Sestet
Sestina
Sonnet: English/Shakespearean, Italian/Petrarchan
Stanza
Trochee
Syntax
Antithesis
Balanced sentence
Coherence
Complex sentence
Compound sentence
Ellipsis
Inverted sentence
Loose sentence (cumulative) /periodic sentence
Parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
Parts of a sentence: Subject; Predicate (pred adj); Clause; Phrase
Types of sentences: Question (interrogative), statement, exclamation, command (imperative)
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Literary Terms
AP Literature and Composition. Mr Mahoney
Here is a shortened list, with most important ones in bold.
Guaranteed to be on the test are in italics
Drama
Catharsis
Comedy
Comic relief
Denouement
Dues ex machina
Epilogue
Exposition
Farce
Foil
Hamartia/Tragic Error or Flaw
Hubris
Mimesis
Monologue
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Tragedy
Tragic Hero
Villain
Elements of Style
Archetype
Colloquial
Connotation
Denotation
Dialect
Didactic
Diction
Epigram
Inversion
Irony: Dramatic, Situational, Verbal
Mood
Paradox
Proverb
Tone
Fiction
Anecdote
Flashback
Point of view: First person, Objective, Omniscient, Limited Third person, Unlimited
Stream-of-consciousness
Theme
Figures of Speech
Allusion
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Metonymy
Personification
Simile
Symbol
Synecdoche
Form
Allegory
Anecdote
Fable
Genre
Parable
Prose
Verse
Poetry
Alliteration
Assonance
Blank verse
Cadence
Caesura
Conceit
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet
Dissonance
Dramatic monologue
Elegy
End-stop line
Enjambment
Free verse
Iambic Pentameter
Lyric
Motif
Octave
Ode
Persona
Quatrain
Refrain
Repetition
Rhyme: End, Internal
Sestet
Sestina
Sonnet: English/Shakespearean, Italian/Petrarchan
Stanza
Trochee
Syntax
Antithesis
Balanced sentence
Coherence
Complex sentence
Compound sentence
Ellipsis
Inverted sentence
Loose sentence (cumulative) /periodic sentence
Parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
Parts of a sentence: Subject; Predicate (pred adj); Clause; Phrase
Types of sentences: Question (interrogative), statement, exclamation, command (imperative)