AP Lit Terms - Dialogue

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Aside
A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the
audience; a dramatic device for letting the audience know what a character is really thinking or feeling as opposed
to what the character pretends to think or feel.
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Colloquial
Informal, conversational language.
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Dialogue
Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. (2) A literary work written in the form of a
conversation.
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Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary.
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Diction
Word choice.
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Epithet
A descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing, or a person in such a way that it helps in
making its characteristics more prominent than they actually are. Also, it is known as a nickname, “by-name,” or
“descriptive title.”
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Euphemism
Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh, blunt, or offensive one.
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Figure of Speech:
Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly (and for the
purposes of this class) a way of saying one thing and meaning another.
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Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth.
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Invective
Denunciatory or abusive language.
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Monologue
(1) A dramatic soliloquy. (2) A literary composition in such form.
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Proverb
A short, pithy saying that expresses a basic truth or practical precept.
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Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or
sound of different words.
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Sarcasm
Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed.
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Soliloquy
A device often used in drama whereby a character relates or works through his or her thoughts and
feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters. Typically the speaker
is alone on stage and the audience assumes that the speaker is telling the truth.
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Slang
A kind of language esp. occurring in casual or playful speech, usu. made up of short-lived coinages and
figures of speech deliberately used in place of standard terms.
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Understatement
A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means
with less force than the occasion warrants.