AP Literary Terms
acts
allegory
alliteration
allusion
anagnorisis
analogy
anapest
anaphora (epistrophe)
anastrophe
anecdote
antagonist
antihero
antithesis
aphorism
apostrophe
archetype
aside
assonance
asyndeton
attitude
black comedy
blank verse
canon
caricature
catharsis
caesura
characterization
chiasmus (antimetabole)
chorus
cliché
colloquialism
comedy
conceit
conflict
comic relief
connotation
conventions
couplet
dactyl
decorum
denotation
details
devices of sound
dialect
dialogue
diction
didactic
direct monologue
distortion
double entendre
dramatic irony
dramatic monologue
dramatis personae
elegy
epigraph
epithet
episodic
essay – types of writing
euphemism
explication
exodus
fable
farce
figure of Speech
figurative language
flashback
foil character
foreshadowing
foot
frame
free verse
genre
hamartia
high burlesque
history play
hubris
hyperbole
iamb
Imagery
In media res
incongruity
indirect monologue
internal rhyme
irony
juxtaposition
lampoon
literary ballad
litotes
low burlesque
lyrical poem
malapropism
meditative poem
metaphor
metaphysical conceit
meter
metonymy
miracle play
mock heroic
monologue of the villain
mood
morality play
motif
mystery play
narrative Pace
narrative techniques
novel - novella
ode
onomatopoeia
orchestra
ottava rima
oxymoron
parable
paradox
parallelism
paradox
parody
pastoral
pathos
pentameter
periodic sentence
peripeteia
personification
plot
Point of View
polysyndeton
prologue
protagonist
pun
quatrain
refrain
revenge tragedy
romance
rhetorical devices
rhetorical strategy
rhetorical questions
rhythm
sarcasm
satire
scansion
scenes
setting
Shakespearean sonnet
simile
situational irony
soliloquy
Spenserian sonnet
spondee
spoonerism
stereotype
stream of consciousness
structure
style
subplot
suspense
symbol
synecdoche
syntax
terza rima
theme
thesis
tone
tragedy
tragic flaw
tragic irony
trochee
turn
understatement
verbal irony
vernacular
Works Read:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close
Frankenstein
Heart of Darkness
Oedipus
Othello
Importance of Being Earnest
The Awakening
Crime and Punishment
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
The Great Gatsby – 11th
Huckleberry Finn – 11th
Of Mice and Men – 11th
Scarlet Letter – 11th
Night – 10th
Things Fall Apart – 10th
Short Stories
“Popular Mechanics” – Raymond Carver
“Killings” – Andre Dubus
“Soldier’s Home” – Earnest Hemingway
“Story of an Hour” - Chopin
‘Desiree’s Baby” – Chopin
Excerpts and Tales
Faust excerpt
Paradise Lost excerpt
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde excerpt
“Manciple’s Tale” - Chaucer
Beowulf excerpt
“Pardoner’s Tale” - Chaucer
“Wife of Bath’s Tale’ – Chaucer
“Sir Gawain and the Greeen Knight”
Gulliver’s Travels excerpts
Articles
Achebe article on HOD
Hothschild – King Leopold’s Ghost
Poetry
Auden - “Funeral Blues”
Collins - “How to Read Poetry”
Sandberg - “The Mob”
Kipling - “White Man’s Burden”
Keats - “When I Have Fears”
Longfellow - “Mezzo Cammin”
Collins - “The Art of Drowning”
Oliver - “The Journey”
Coleridge - “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Hardy - “Convergence of the Twain”
Herrick - “To the Virgins”
Shakespeare - Sonnet 130
cummings - “since feeling is first”
Tennyson - “The Lady of Shallott”
Wyatt – “Whoso List to Hunt”
Spenser – Sonnets 75, 30
Shakespeare – Sonnets 29, 73, 116 and 130
Marlowe – “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Raleigh – “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Milton – “When I Consider How My Light is Spent”
Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress”
Donne – “Valediction Forbidding Mourning”, “Death Be Not Proud”
Burns – “To A Mouse”
Blake – “The Tyger”, “The Lamb”, “The Chimney Sweeper” (2)
Wordsworth – “A Few Lines…Tintern Abbey”, “The World is Too Much With Us”
Coleridge – “Kubla Khan”
Lord Byron– “She Walks in Beauty”, “Don Juan”
Shelley – “Ozymandias”, “ Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats – “”When I Have Fears”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
Poetry Packet #1
Poetry Packet #2
Practice Exam – January
Practice Exam – April
Practice Selections – throughout all year
Compositions completed
Summer Reading #1
Essay for Foer – past prompt
Poetry Response #1
HTRLLAP Frankenstein
In-class essay for Frankenstein
Frankenstein MWDS
Poetry Response #2
College Essay
Poetry Response #3
Poetry Response #4
Poetry Response #5
HOD prompt
HOD MWDS
Oedipus prompt
Oedipus MWDS
Poetry #6
Poetry #7
Othello MWDS
Othello prompt
Poetry #8
Earnest MWDS
Awakening MWDS
Exam prompt – Oliver
Outline Prose – Shipping News
Prose Analysis – O’Connor
Prose Analysis – Crane
Prose Analysis –Walker
Poetry #9
MWDS – Crime and Punishment
In-class essay for Crime and Punishment
Prose analysis - Joyce
Poetry analysis - Yeats
In-class essay for Their Eyes Were Watching God