AP English Lit Semester Final

PNHS

Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn’t present, isn’t alive, or is abstract.

Dramatic Irony

When the audience (or a reader) knows something that the characters in a story do not

Hyperbole

A figure of speech that involves exaggeration for the sake of emphasis or effect

Imagery

Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch).

Irony

A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using like or as.

Paradox

A statement that appears self-contradictory but contains a deeper truth.

Parallelism

The use of similar grammatical structures to express related ideas

Personification

A figure of speech where human qualities or characteristics are attributed to inanimate objects, animals, ideas, or forces of nature.

Simile

A comparison between two things using the words like or as.

Symbol

Not just the thing itself, it stands for something beyond its literal meaning.

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or conversely, the whole is used to represent a part.

Animosity

A feeling of strong dislike, i’ll will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action.

Antipathy

A natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion

Apathetic

Having or showing little or no emotion

Audacious

Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

Bilious

Peevish; irritable; cranky

Clandestine

Characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy of concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious

Didactic

Intended for instruction; instructive

Embittered

Angry or resentful at having been treated unfairly

Evocation

The act or instance of evoking; a calling forth

Ferment

Any group of living organisms, such as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation

Flippant

Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity

Grandeur

The quality or state of being lofty or elevated in conception or treatment

Haggard

Having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety

Imperious

Domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing

Impudence

The quality or state of being impudent; effrontery, insolence

Innate

Existing in one from birth

Inordinate

Not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive

Insidious

Intended to entrap or beguile

Menacing

Expressing or serving as a menace or threat

Patronizing

Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner

Petulant

Moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance

Recluse

A person who Ives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation

Remorse

Deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction

Resinous

Pertaining to ou

Sullen

Showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve

Surreptitious

Obtained, done, made, etc. by stealth; secret or unauthorized

Vicarious

Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another

Visage

The face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.

Voluptuous

Full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment