This is not a conclusive list of literary terms for AP Literature; students should be familiar with these terms at the beginning of the year. Please review the terms and ensure that you know each definition and could identify an example. Terms with * by them are referenced on “The Five Essential Elements of Fiction Analysis.” Narrative Point of View* First person narration* Third-person narration Omniscient narration* Limited omniscient narration* Free indirect discourse Objective Narrator* Unreliable narrator Stream-of-consciousness narration* Character* Protagonist* Hero/Heroine* Antagonist* character* Dynamic character* Flat character* Character* Foil* Confidant/Confidante* Mentor* Characterization* Direct characterization* Indirect characterization* Setting* Plot Conflict* Rising action Climax Falling action Resolution Elements of Style Figures of Speech Alliteration Apostrophe Assonance Cacophony Cliché Hyperbole Metaphor Metonymy Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Paradox Personification Rhetorical Question Simile Synaesthesia Synecdoche Literary Techniques Antithesis Allusion Foreshadowing Irony Verbal irony Situational irony Dramatic Irony Juxtaposition Thematic Meaning Imagery Motif Symbol Theme* Thesis Tone
The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka The Loved One—Evelyn Waugh Benito Brave New World—Aldous Huxley All the Pretty Horses—Cormac McCarthy Bless Me, Ultima—Ruldolfo A. Anaya The Color Purple—Alice Walker Cry, the Beloved Country—Alan Paton Emma—Jane Austen A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce The Portrait of a Lady—Henry James A Raisin in the Sun—Lorraine Hansberry Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston Twelfth Night—Shakespeare As I Lay Dying—William Faulkner Bleak House—Charles Dickens Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte The Optimist’s Daughter—Eudora Welty The Turn of the Screw—Henry James Waiting for Godot—Samuel Beckett Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—Edward Albee An American Tragedy—Theodore Dreiser Another Country—James Baldwin Native Son—Richard Wright Othello—Shakespeare The Sun Also Rises—Ernest Hemingway Winter in the Blood—James Welch A Passage to India—E.M. Forster A Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens The Woman Warrior—Maxine Hong Kingston Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy Mansfield Park—Jane Austen The Scarlett Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne A Farewell to Arms—Ernest Hemingway The Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton Alias Grace—Margaret Atwood The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man—James Weldon Johnson Daisy Miller—Henry James Ethan Frome—Edith Wharton Go Tell It On the Mountain—James Baldwin The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood Our Town—Thornton Wilder Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen Slaughterhouse Five—Kurt Vonnegut Snow Falling on Cedars—David Guterson A Doll’s House—Henrik Isben The Glass Menagerie—Tennessee Williams The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver This is a general warning: many of these books discuss issues that may be disturbing to some readers. Do your due diligence and choose wisely. Sketch Notes Rubric Expectations and Criteria Pts. Possible Text 1: Text 2: TAG Information (Title, Author, Genre) Lists all correctly 1 Biographical and Historical Information Includes date of publication Includes a brief description of author’s biographical background with one supporting quotation (with parenthetical citation) Includes a brief description of historical time period with one supporting quotation (with parenthetical citation) 2