Frontloading AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
Character’s Perspective
How the character perceive what’s happening in the story
Character’s Motivation
Reason behind character’s behaviors or goals
Contrasting Characters
Differences in characters
Complex Relationships
Relationships built with difficulties
Narrator
The person whose point of view the story is told through
Speaker
A person who gives a speech or tells the story
Point Of View
How the story is told
Diction
The choice of words of the speaker
Syntax
The arrangement of words in a sentence or speech
Reliability
How much the word of a character can be truste
Metaphor
Figure of speech that is not literally true, but explains something or makes a comparison
Personification
Assign human qualities to non-humans things
Allusion
A reference to a person, thing, place or event
Setting
Where or when what’s being told takes place, time and place
Plot Structure
Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution
