AP Lit Week 5 Vocab
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cadesha_clarke on April 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Motif | a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors |
| Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| Objective Point of View | belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events |
| First Person POV | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur |
| Third Person POV | pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur |
| Third Person Omniscient | infinitely wise, writer is not in the story but knows and decribes all the character's thoughts and ideas |
| Third Person Limited | narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts. |
| Situational Irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected |
| Romantic Irony | an author's persistent presence in his or her work, meant to ensure that the audience will maintain critical detachment and not simply accept the writing at face value |
| Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
| Cosmic Irony | when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general |
| Archetype | an original model on which something is patterned |
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