AP Lit terms: form – Flashcards
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form: allegory
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a story that has two levels of meaning
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form: anecdote
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a story that is short; a narration of a single incident
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form: diary
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daily record of the events in a person's life; written for personal use and pleasure with no thought to publication
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form: discourse
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written or spoken communication; primary concern of literary criticism
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form: argumentative discourse
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argumentation; taking a particular stance on a subject
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form: descriptive discourse
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description; an account of something that presents a picture to the audience
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form: expository discourse
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exposition; designed to convey information
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form: narrative discourse
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narration; telling a story
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form: essay
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literary composition dealing with a limited subject
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form: formal essay
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articles; impersonal accounts; authority writes with authority; scholarly writing; elevated language
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form: humorous essay
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funny, comical
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form: informal essay
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familiar (personal); tone of intimacy; deals with everyday things
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form: fable
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also called opologue; short narrative, prose, or verse that exemplifies a moral or principle of human behavior
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form: genre
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a term that denotes a recurring type of literature; ex: poetry, short story, science fiction, horror, novel...
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form: novel
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an extended work of fiction
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form: novella
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a short novel--longer than a short story, but not as long as a novel
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form: parable
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very short narrative about human beings presented to stress a moral or lesson
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form: prose
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whatever discourse that is not poetry; distinguished from poetry by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech; patterned into lines
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form: verse
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poetry written in meter with beat
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form: vignette
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a short descriptive literary sketch; little window into a scene
