Prose Terms
Not just word choice, but its purpose and underlying meaning.
What is Diction?
A poem of fourteen lines made famous by William Shakespeare
What is a sonnet?
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How long do you have to write each essay?
Hamartia is another word for this literary element
What is tragic flaw?
You do this to the title of a poem
What is put in quotation marks?
The attitude of the writer toward a subject or an audience.
What is tone?
Poem with no rhyme scheme and no meter
What is free verse?
For this, you pick a dramatic play or novel whose content best fits the requirement of the prompt's topic
What is a Question 3 Literary Argument Essay?
This is what Macbeth hallucinates at the famous banquet scene.
What is Banquo's ghost?
You do this to the title of a novel
What is underline?
Visually descriptive or sensory language
What is imagery?
The underlying meaning of a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation.
What is connotation?
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Where do we take the AP Lit Exam?
This is the way a literary work is written that uses diction, imagery, syntax, and figurative language
What is style?
This is how you refer to the narrative voice in a poetry text.
What is the speaker?
An excessive level of pride that leads to the protagonist’s downfall.
What is hubris?
Placing two things side by side for the sake of comparison or contrast.
What is a juxtapostion?
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When is our AP Lit Exam?
This is a famous rap song that contains an allusion to Psalm 23:4 (Song and Artist)
What it Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"
You use this when you are about to list many items
What is add a colon?
This is how you refer to the narrative voice in a prose text.
What is the narrator?
A recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature.
What is a motif?
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What happens if I miss the exam?
This addresses ALL parts of the prompt and goes at the end of the introduction
What is the thesis?
These are the literary devices to use when you have absolutely no idea what to write about.
What is imagery, diction, and tone?