AP Lit Toolbox Terms

Manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story

Sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

Expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims or dreams

An author often will find it useful to compare what she's describing to another image or event

Practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw

Repetition of sounds in quick succession produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase

Specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement

a short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident.

A writer wishes to describe some graphic or offensive event using milder imagery or phrasing

The author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another

Associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition

Helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas

Any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the literature

Word is used in a manner to suggest two or more possible meanings

A single, related chunk of lines in poetry

Words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group

Occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time

Choosing sensory details for the associations or tones they evoke.

Refers to an author's choice of words

When an author refers to the events or characters from another story in her own story.