Stuff
To know
For AP
Test
Day
100
The narrator is outside the story and sees into the minds of all the characters
What is the omniscient narrator
100
The readers feelings as he or she reads
What is mood
100
A conversation between characters that is also a style device 
What is dialogue
100
A non rhyming poem 
What is Free verse
100
A populat saying that becomes so overused that it loses its meaning or effect
What is cliche
200
When there is no punctuation at the end of lines of poetry 
What is emjambment
200
The writing toll authors use to appeal the audience’s five senses
What is imagery
200
A kind of persuasive writing that evokes emotion like sympathy, anger or joy 
What is pathos
200
A subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not literal 
What is metaphor
200
The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view
300
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction such as civil war 
What is oxymoron
300
A story in which each aspect of the story has symbolic meaning outside the story itself such as lord of the flies
What is an allegory
300
Literally “misplaced in time” an aspect of the story that doesn’t belong in its supposed time setting 
What is an anachronism 
300
A story of a legend involving heroes, gods, and goddesses
What is an epic
300
When one or more words are omitted from a sentence 
What is ellipsis 
400
A speech made by a character alone on stage in order to educate the audience about events, characters, or conflicts 
What is a soliloquy 
400
A long narrower folky poem using about a contemporary issue that rhymes and use simple language 
What is a ballad
400
Occurs when an action produces far smaller results that one has been led to expect
What is anticlimax 
400
A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities 
What is the antihero 
400
A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman 
What is an apostrophe 
500
The word, phrase, or clause that determines what pronoun it refers to
What is an antecedent 
500
Broad parody, one that takes a style or form and exaggerates it into ridiculousness 
What is burlesque 
500
An extended metaphor over several lines 
What is a conceit
500
Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language
What is bombast? 
500
The use of deliberately old fashioned language 
What is archaism 
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