AP Lit Week 3 Vocab
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cadesha_clarke on April 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Italics | printed in or using characters that slope to the right |
| Tone/Attitude | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| Prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse |
| Poetry | literature in metrical form |
| Fiction | a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact |
| Non-Fiction | prose writing that is not fictional |
| Myth | a traditional story accepted as history |
| Memoir | an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic |
| Novel | a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction |
| Drama | a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage |
| Tragedy | drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance |
| Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
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