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Pre-AP Literary Terms
Pre-APLiteraryTerms
Pre-AP Literary Terms
TAKS Literary Terms
TAKSLiterary Terms
Fables of Aesop, Animal Farm, and Watership Down feature animals in human shape with
human characteristics.
What is anthropomorphism
?
““It was the White Rabbit returning,
splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one
hand and a large fan
in the other:””type of type of writingwriting
What is belles-lettres? (bel-letr)
In The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye have young
characters coming of age
What is bildungsrom
an?(bil-du2ŋ(k)s-rō-män)
Means good word
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his
enemies”
What is a bon mot (boN mo)?
“““Once upon a midnight
dreary, while I pondered weak and
weary…..." ””
What is caesura? (si-zyu2r-ə)
“The curfew tolls the knells of parting day”
What is a consonance?
“My Last Duchess”
narrated by imaginary
character whose flaws are revealed
What is dramatic
monologue?
“My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires
and more slow.” “To His Coy Mistress”
What is enjambment
?
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatize
internal struggle between good
and evil”
What is an Doppelganger
(dopple-ganger)?
The Color Purple is a
novel in the form of letters
What is epistolary novel?
“Geofrey Chaucer “The Pardoner’s
Tale” is a tale with a moral message.
What is exemplum?
In Richard Wright’s Native Son, the act that seals Bigger
Thomas’s fate is his first impulsive
murder
What is hamartia?
Nash: “I never make way for a fool,”Wesley: “Don’t you? I always do.” and steps aside.
What is repartee? (repər tē)
In The Sun Also Rises,
Hemingway uses friends as
models for his characters
A dainty thing’s the Villanelle,Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,It serves its purpose passing
well,A double-clappered silver bell,that must be made to clink in
chime,A dainty thing’s the Villanelle,
….(19 lines five tercets and a concluding
quatrain, only two diff sounds)
What is Villanelle?(vi-lə-nel)
3-line stanzas alternating rhyme “As in that trance of wondrous
thought I layThis was the tenour of my waking
dream.Methought I sate beside a public
wayThick strewn with summer dust,
and a great stream”
What is terza rima?
(tert-sə-rē-mə)
"Oh, Death, be not proud."
What is apostrophe?
“Latin--"seize the day”.
What is Carpe diem?
“Ask not what your country can do for you rather what you can do
for your country”
What is
chiasmus?
“My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and
more slow.” “To His Coy Mistress”
What is Enjambment
?
“He lost his coat and his
temper”
What is a Syllepsis?
“and it was dark and there was
water standing in the street and no
lights…”
What is Polysyndeton
?
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only
thing we have to fear is fear
itself”
What is Polyptoton?
The U.S. won three gold medals.
What is Synecdoche?
“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the
young” .
What isparadox?