APLIt&Comp - Identifying Terms/Devices

"The Allegory of the Cave" Animal Farm

Allegory

"I'm the Hermes of verses, I write my curses in cursive."

Allusion

"…my mind on my money and my money on my mind…"

Alliteration

1: Italian and Shakespearean

2: A story about a caveman who microwaves his dinner

Anachronism

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Anaphora

Darth Vader

Antagonist

Holden from The Catcher in the Rye

Anti-Hero

"Hope for the best; prepare for the worst."

Antithesis

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, How I wonder what you are!"

Apostrophe

"Whose woods these are I think I know."

Assonance

"The words, the records, the style, the records I spin"

Asyndeton

Harry Potter, The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit

Bildungsroman

"To be or not to be, that is the question."

Blank Verse

"To be or not to be - that is the question."

Caesura

Criminal Minds, CSI, Law & Order

Catharsis

"He grunted and in a gruff voice said, 'Give me that trash and I'll throw it out!'"

Cacophony

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Chiasmus

"Yo, what up dawg?" "Nope"

Colloquialism

"Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head."

Conceit

Cold: ice or cold-hearted

Connotation

"Mike likes his new bike."

Consonance

"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings / that I scorn to change my state with kings."

Couplet

The denotation of "hot" is having or giving off heat

Denotation

The connotation of "hot" could suggest the attractiveness of a person

Connotation

"I hate Billy with every fiber of my being." vs. "Billy is not always the easiest to get along with."

Diction

The last chapter of The Great Gatsby

Denouement

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

Double Entendre

"O Captain, My Captain!" by Walt Whitman

Elegy

"I went out and / lost my way"

Enjambment

"Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. / Without her you wouldn't have set out. / She has nothing left to give you now."

End-Stopped Line

The Odyssey

Epic

"You are all a lost generation" from Gertrude Stein in The Sun Also Rises

Epigraph

The final chapter of The Great Gatsby

Epilogue

The first 4 "chapters" of Frankenstein

Epistolary

"Where now? Who now? When now?"

Epistrophe

"Passed away"

Euphemism

"Whose woods these are I think I know"

Euphony

Disney Pixar movies

Fable

"Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off / Like a graveyard marble sculpture in the weather."

Feminine Ending

"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

Figurative Language

The majority of Forrest Gump

Flashback

Reagan, Goneril, or Kent in King Lear

Flat Character

Goneril and Reagan to Cordelia in King Lear

Foil

When George kills Candy's dog in Of Mice and Men

Foreshadowing

"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

Free Verse

Brutus's ambition is his __ in Julius Caesar

Hamartia

Antigone, King Lear

In medias res

King Lear

In medias res

"Everything is fine when you listenin to the D-O-G / I got the cultivating music that be captivating he / who listens, to the words that I speak."

Inversion

A man in the ocean saying, "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink."

Irony

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers / Life is but an empty dream!"

Masculine Ending

Pentameter = 5 feet per line

Trimeter = 3 feet per line

Meter

"She's a brick house."

Metaphor

Oval Office = executive branch and all its members

Crown = monarchy's power and authority

Metonymy

blindness in King Lear

Motif

The Old Man and the Sea, The Pearl

Novella

"Ode to a Grecian Urn"

Ode

"His old face was youthful when he heard the news."

Paradox

Saturday Night Live, Mad TV

Parody

"And again and again and again."

Polysyndeton

The opening scene/speech in Romeo and Juliet

Prologue

novels, short stories, non-fiction, essays, etc.

Prose

"…being heavy (sad), I will bear the light (torch/contrast to heavy)."

Pun

ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG

Rhyme Scheme

Gulliver's Travels; Saturday Night Live

Satire

"To be or not to be…"

Soliloquy

Italian & Shakespeare

Sonnet

Fitzgerald (descriptive, effusive, observant, e.g. The Great Gatsby)

Style

the green light in The Great Gatsby

Symbol

Check out my new wheels. (Wheels = car)

Synecdoche

Antigone and King Lear

Tragedy

serious, confident, didactic

Tone