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Pre-AP Literary Terms. Pre-AP Literary Terms. Pre-AP Literary Terms. TAKS Literary Terms. TAKS Literary Terms. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500.

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  1. Pre-AP Literary Terms Pre-AP Literary Terms Pre-AP Literary Terms TAKS Literary Terms TAKS Literary Terms 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. Fables of Aesop, Animal Farm, and Watership Down feature animals in human shape with human characteristics.

  3. What is anthropomorphism?

  4. “It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other:”type of writing

  5. What is belles-lettres?(bel-letr)

  6. In The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye have young characters coming of age

  7. What is bildungsroman?(bil-du̇ŋ(k)s-rō-män)

  8. Means good word “A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies”

  9. What is abon mot (boN mo)?

  10. ““Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…..." ”

  11. What is caesura?(si-zyu̇r-ə)

  12. “The curfew tolls the knells of parting day”

  13. What is a consonance?

  14. “My Last Duchess” narrated by imaginary character whose flaws are revealed

  15. What is dramatic monologue?

  16. “My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow.” “To His Coy Mistress”

  17. What is enjambment?

  18. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatize internal struggle between good and evil”

  19. What is an Doppelganger (dopple-ganger)?

  20. The Color Purple is a novel in the form of letters

  21. What is epistolary novel?

  22. “Geofrey Chaucer “The Pardoner’s Tale” is a tale with a moral message.

  23. What is exemplum?

  24. In Richard Wright’s Native Son, the act that seals Bigger Thomas’s fate is his first impulsive murder

  25. What is hamartia?

  26. Nash: “I never make way for a fool,”Wesley: “Don’t you? I always do.” and steps aside.

  27. What is repartee?(repər tē)

  28. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway uses friends as models for his characters

  29. What is roman a clef ?(roman à clé: French)

  30. A dainty thing’s the Villanelle,Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,It serves its purpose passing well,A double-clappered silver bell,that must be made to clink in chime,A dainty thing’s the Villanelle,….(19 lines five tercets and a concluding quatrain, only two diff sounds)

  31. What is Villanelle?(vi-lə-nel)

  32. 3-line stanzas alternating rhyme“As in that trance of wondrous thought I layThis was the tenour of my waking dream.Methought I sate beside a public wayThick strewn with summer dust, and a great stream”

  33. What is terza rima? (tert-sə-rē-mə)

  34. "Oh, Death, be not proud."

  35. What is apostrophe?

  36. “Latin--"seize the day”.

  37. What is Carpe diem?

  38. “Ask not what your country can do for you rather what you can do for your country”

  39. What is chiasmus?

  40. “My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow.” “To His Coy Mistress”

  41. What is Enjambment?

  42. “He lost his coat and his temper”

  43. What is a Syllepsis?

  44. “and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights…”

  45. What is Polysyndeton?

  46. “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

  47. What is Polyptoton?

  48. The U.S. won three gold medals.

  49. What is Synecdoche?

  50. “What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young” .

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