AP Lit Macbeth Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize |
| Metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| Simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| 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 |
| situational irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected |
| Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| Symbolism | Investing a concrete thing with abstract meaning |
| Pun | a humorous play on words |
| Foil | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities |
| Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| Motif | a unifying idea that is a recurrent symbol in a literary or artistic work |
| iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses |
| Chiasmus | inversion in the second of two parallel phrases |
| Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
| Diction | word choice |
| Parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other |
| Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it. Example: "The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war]" |
| Synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing (a "hand" indicates a "sailor") |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person |
| Soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections |
| Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |
| Allegory | a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions |
| Archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response (Symbolic, Situational, Character driven) |
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