Literatura comparativa

Glossary of Literary
Terms for the
AP ® Spanish Literature
and Culture Course

The College Board
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Contents
Introduction

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Glossary of Literary Terms for AP® Spanish Literature and
Culture  Course
Terms for Achievement Level 3

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Terms for Achievement Level 4

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Terms for Achievement Level 5

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Resources

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Contributors

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Introduction

Introduction
This document is designed to helpteachers and students of AP® Spanish
Literature and Culture understand the range of literary terms used in the course.
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, but rather a representative list
of terms that appear in various anthologies and instructional materials for
introduction to literary analysis courses and surveys of Peninsular and Latin
American literatures.
What sets thisdocument apart from previously published glossaries of literary
terms in Spanish is the alignment of literary terms with the AP Spanish
Literature and Culture curriculum framework. This alignment is accomplished in
two important ways:
• The terms are grouped into three categories that represent levels
3, 4, and 5 of the achievement level descriptions for interpretive
communication, and written andspoken interpersonal and
presentational communication in the curriculum framework. These
categories present a general progression in the ability to interpret
and analyze literary texts. Students at a particular achievement level
should be able to identify the terms in relation to texts in a reading
analysis, or apply them appropriately to the discussion of texts,
or explain their functionor relevance in an oral or written textual
analysis.
• The terms are organized in groups within each achievement level:
(1) general terms, (2) terms that relate to narrative genres, (3) terms
that relate to poetic genres, (4) terms that relate to dramatic genres,
(5) rhetorical figures, and (6) literary historical terms.
• For each term at each level, examples are provided from the works onthe required reading list.
This glossary can be used in several ways:
1) as a quick reference tool for teachers to access examples of how
literary terms are used in works from the required reading list that
they can then share with their students;
2) as a resource for students to solidify their knowledge and
understanding of literary terms used within the works from the
required readinglist;
3) for assignments—students could study sections of the document
before beginning a particular required reading, so that they can look
for literary terms and devices as they read a required text,
4) as the beginning of a longer list of literary terms found in other texts
from the reading list.

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