Building Blocks
Any person, a figure, an inanimate object, or animal within a story
What is a character?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
An object, person, or place that represents an abstract idea beyond its literal meaning
What is a symbol?
The amount of time you should take on each question of the multiple choice section of the AP Literature Exam
What is no more than one minute?
A speaker or writer's choice of words
What is diction?
The idea or overarching concept the poet tries to convey throughout the poem or story
What is the theme?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is a rhyme scheme?
A piece of figurative language that describes something by claiming it is something that it isn’t
What is a metaphor?
What you should not do at any point during the exam
What is sleep?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character
What is characterization?
A device that allows the writer of a narrative to establish the time, location, and environment in which it takes place
What is setting?
A fourteen-lined poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
An atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected; the feeling the reader gets
What is mood?
Aside from the thematic statement, your thesis paragraph must include these
What are literary devices?
What is the name of the author and the book?
What is background?
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization
What is tone?
The viewpoint in which a story is told
What is point of view?
A drastic shift in thought, argument, or emotion at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is a turn/volta?
A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture; an indirect reference to something, usually from literature
What is an allusion?
The first step in outlining your Q3 FRQ essay response
What is answering the prompt?
Language used to create images within the mind of the reader
What is imagery?
Narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of only one character
What is third person limited omniscient?
Five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stresses syllables or ten beats per line
What is iambic pentameter?
A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth
What is a paradox?
The percentage of multiple-choice questions you must get correct to at least make a 3
What is 50%?
A narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.
What is an allegory?