AP Lit Vocab 1

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Refutation
When you dismiss someone’s claim and prove why it was wrong.
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Connotation
An additional meaning of a word besides it’s original meaning.
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Diction
The particular set of vocabulary in someone’s speech.
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Syntax
The combination of words to make a well formed sentence.
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Imagery
A description in a story or text that provokes a strong image in the mind.
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Metaphor
The comparison of two things without using like or as.
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Paradox
A statement or idea that is self-contradictory
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Subjunctive/Conditional Mood
Verb used to refer to a hypothetical scenario.
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Indicative Mood
Verb used to state facts, opinions, and ask questions.
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Passive Voice
When a sentence says what is done to something.
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Active Voice
When a sentence says what a person or thing does.
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Tone
The mood set by a piece of work.
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Situational Irony
Irony where the opposite of what’s expected happens.
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Dramatic Irony
When the audience is aware of something the characters are not.
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Verbal Irony
When someone says something different than what they mean.
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Free Indirect Discourse
A combination of first-person and third-person writing where the author uses the pronouns of third person but particular words or phrases that are the thoughts of one of the characters.
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Metaphysical Poetry
Poetry that contains philosophical discussion, paradoxes, etc.
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Modernism
A break from original creative styles and the development of new styles.
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Metonymy
The replacement of a word that has the same meaning.
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Synecdoche
A figure of speech where a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa.
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Efferent Reading
Reading to gain information.
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Aesthetic Reading
Reading for pleasure.
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Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence in a poem from one line to the next.
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Juxtaposition
Two things placed beside each other for contrasting effect.