Literary Terms AP Comp and Lit S-U

What is a close critical reading of a poem, examining for meter?

What is a major subdivision of a poem?

What expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject?

What is the time and place in which a story unfolds?

What is a story of the exploits of a hero or a story told through generations?

What is one sensory experience described in terms of another sensory experience?

What is a device where an object represents an idea?

What is an author's method of identifying a character with a group?

What is the reader's concern for the welfare of a character or an anticipation of violence?

What is a figure of speech wherein a part of something represents the whole thing?

What is a drama based on an absurd situation?

What is a short fictional narrative?

What is an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity?

What is a story where the hero has a total reversal of fortune?

What is a comparison between two unlike quantities using words "like" or "as"?

What is a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work?

What is the moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud?

What is a lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed?

What is a statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant?

What is a metrical pattern in a line of poetry that has alternating stressed syllables?

What is the meaning behind what a character says?

What is the author's use of figurative language, diction, and other literary devices?

What is a metrical pattern characterized by two or more successively-placed accented syllables?