Viewing All Flashcards for AP English Literary Device Vocabulary
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Philosophical investigation into nature of beauty... theory of art
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One lined debate back and forth
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Opposite of hubris, perfection
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Juxtaposition, opposites... blessed and cursed
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Moment of reversal, getting caught
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Scene of suffering, moment of passion
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Jus tpunishment for wrong doing
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Poetry's highest form, passionate, usually addressed to Donysus
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Intentional use of a word figuratively... to emphasize
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The way words and phrases are arranged for grammatical structure
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Figure of speech where part of something stands for all of it
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Hidden meaning
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Fictional character heavily relying on culture of stereotypes for personality
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Theories regarding symbolism, how people get meaning from words, sounds, pictures
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Study of the meaning of language, not form
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Analyisis of a poems meter. stressed vs unstressed syllables
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Exposes human folly, moral criticism
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Novel where the people and events are disguised as fictional characters
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Controversial argument... usually attacking opinion or doctrine
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Narrator, storyteller, if play... it is the voice
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Artistic work evoking rural life... idealized
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Attribution of human emotions to inanimate objects or nature - angry clouds
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Brief narrative showing moral, religous lesson