AP Lit Terms- Essay-Irony

Essay

a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject.

Argumentative (essay)

one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics and emotional (logos, ethos, and pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think r act in a certain way.

Persuasion (essay)

relies more on emotional appeals than on facts

Argument (essay)

form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way.

Casual Relationship (essay)

form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing resulted from another, often used as part of a logical argument.

Description (essay)

a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion

Exposition (essay)

one of the four major forms of discourse, in which something is explained or “set forth”

Narrative (essay)

the form of discourse that tells about a series of events

Explication

act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language.

Fable

a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.

Farce

a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far fetched situations.

Figurative Language

Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe.

Figurative Language

Similies and metaphors are common form of ______.

Flashback

a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.

foil

A character who acts as contrast to another character.

Foil

Ex: (a funny sidekick to a dashing hero) or ( a villain contesting the hero)

Foreshadowing

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

Free Verse

poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

hyperbole

a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect.

hyperbole

“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times…”

Hypotactic

sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.

Imagery

the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

Inversion

the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.

Irony

a discrepancy between appearances and reality.