AP LIT VOCAB PT.2

Climax

The turning point in the plot or the high point of action

Colloquial language

Informal conversational language. Colloquialisms are phrases or sayings that are indicative of a specific region

Connotation

An idea or meaning, suggested by or associated with a word or thing (ex. rock music = satanic worship)

Convention

An understanding between a reader and a writer about certain ideas of a story that does not need to be explained

Consonance

The repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase or line of poetry. May be at the beginning, middle or end of the word

Couplet

Two rhyming lines in poetry

Deus ex machina (God from a machine)

A character or force that appears at the end of a story or play to help resolve conflict. (Any turn of events that solve the characters is problems through an unexpected and unlikely Intervention.)

Diction

A word choice or the use of words in speech or writing.

Denoument

The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot

Doppelgänger

Alter ego of a character, the suppressed side of one’s personality that is usually unaccepted by society