Language Devices
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of consecutive words.
What is alliteration?
The author uses this device to hint to the reader about events to come.
What is foreshadowing?
The primary character in a work.
What is a protagonist?
This philosophy includes the crossing of a threshhold and a call to adventure.
What is the Hero's Journey?
What you MUST do to ALL the literature on the AP Exam to clarify meaning?
What is annotate?
The specific, focused word choices an author uses in his writing.
What is diction?
The narrative perspective typified by an unaffiliated, all-knowing narrator.
What is third person omniscient?
This character creates havoc for the main character.
What is the antagonist?
He represents the epitome of great leadership and the endless pursuit of glory.
Who is Beowulf?
14 lines, 3 styles, and involves a "turn" or "volta."
What is a sonnet?
The exact dictionary definition of a word, independent of allusions and connotations.
What is denotation?
An object, event, or person that represents some greater idea, while retaining its own literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
A complex character, whose nature is developed beyond the superficial level.
What is a round character?
This book claimed two legs bad, four legs good...for a while, at least.
What is Animal Farm?
The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is Theme?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences.
What is Anaphora?
The audience knows more than the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
A one-dimensional character, whose identity is composed of a single trait or idea.
What is a flat character?
His abuses came from a place of love, but that does not make it ok.
Who is Heathcliff?
An indirect reference to a concept or story the reader is assumed to be familiar with.
What is allusion?
The grouping of unpleasant, clashing sounds in successive words, specifically arranged to be displeasing to the ear.
What is cacophony?
A story that has a second layer of meaning beneath its surface meaning. Characters and events may represent larger concepts. All aspects of the narrative may be symbolic of greater themes.
What is allegory?
A character who undergoes an important internal change because of action in the plot.
What is a dynamic character?
The major theme of this work revolves around the pursuit of power and the corruption that ensues.
What is Macbeth?
A novel that deals with the psychological or moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.
What is bildungsroman?
That all important feeling imparted by the author through language.
What is tone?
When what is said is not what is meant, but upon reflection, is quite meaningful.
What is verbal irony?
The two methods for analyzing characters.
What is direct and indirect?
Eat those babies.
What is A Modest Proposal?
Style of writing used to point out flaws in society.
What is satire?