Unit 2 vocab

  1. When the action produces far smaller or less significant results than what the reader was led to expect
    Anticlimax
  2. A protagonist who is actually unheroic
    Antihero
  3. Deliberate use of old fashion language
    Archaism
  4. Speech or comment made by a character to its audience
    Aside
  5. Emotional tone/background that encompasses a scene
    Atmosphere 
  6. The author's or character's feelings towards a particular subject matter
    Attitude 
  7. When writing strains for emotion that it can't necessarily support. 
    Bathos
  8. The use of disturbing themes in a comedy
    Black humor
  9. A lewd parody
    Burlesque 
  10. Pretentious, exaggerated language; when a character tries to be eloquent by using the largest, most uncommon words
    Bombast
  11. When the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines or sentences
    Anaphora
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Unit 2 vocab
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Vocabulary for the unit 2 ap lit quiz
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