AP Literature Review

A writer's attitude towards their subject.

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Before the AP Exam it is best to:

Villanelle:

A three line stanza:

to-DAY

a pause usually near the middle of a line of verse 

The atmosphere created in a literary work.

The dictionary meaning of a word.

The ordering of words into patterns or sentences.

An author's choice of words.

"buzz" "hiss" "honk"

Blank Verse:

Jargon:

A broad term referring to novels influenced by both the supernatural and romanticism. 

Colloquial:

FLUT-ter-ring BLUE-ber-ry

the chokecherry tree; Ophelia's flowers

a literary work dealing with rural life in a usually artificial manner

This type of literature includes dreamlike and fantastic stories that often defy logic.

The substitution of a pleasant word or phrase instead of an uncomfortable, embarrassing one.

A work of fiction that calls attention to itself as a work of fiction.

The attitude of a writer towards their subject.

"But when to mischief mortals bend their will, / How soon they find fit instruments of ill!"

A major theme in Hamlet

A poem which tells a story.(Epics and Ballads are examples)

A poem that is mainly a meditation upon death or another solemn theme

"lend me your ears" is an example:

Idiom:

"Before baseball became a boon ballparks were almost turned into bowling alleys"

"A land laid waste with all its young men slain"