AP Lit
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| Allegory | Extended narrative in which there is a surface story and deeper meaning.
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| Analogy | Comparison.
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| Anaphora | Repetition at the beginning of something to emphasize an idea.
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| Aphorism | Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth.
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| Apostrophe | Direct address to someone who is not present.
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| Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines.
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| Blank Verse | Unrhymed, iambic pentameter.
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| Caesura | A Pause.
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| Carpe Diem | "Seize the Day"
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| Connotation | Abstract Meaning
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| Consonance | Repetition of 2+ consonants, with interchanging vowel. ("Pitter- Patter")
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| Couplet | Pair of rhymed lines.
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| Denotation | Formal definition.
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| Elegy | Formal meditative poem or lament of the dead.
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| Elipses | ...
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| Epistrophe | Ending with the same word(s).
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| Euphemism | A more socially acceptable term.
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| Foil | Opposite character to bring out the character's traits.
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| Foot | Combo of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the metric unit of a line.
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| Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form.
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| Jargon | Pattern of speech.
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| Juxtaposition | Placement of an idea next to its opposite.
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| Lyric | Poem in which the speaker expressed intensely person emotion or thoughts.
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| Malapropism | Comic word play in which one word is mistakenly used for a similar one.
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| Metaphor | Implicit comparison, w/o "like" or "as."
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| Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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| Metonymy | Name of one thing is substituted for another that is closely related.
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| Metric Line | A line named according to the number of feet composing it.
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| Ode | Lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment.
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| Paradox | FOS that creates mental ambiguity for the reader to seek clarity.
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| Parallelism | Patter that creates rhyme of repetition.
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| Panegyric | Literary expression of praise.
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| Pun | Play on words.
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| Refrain | A line repeated in a poem.
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| Repetition | Repeating for emphasis.
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| Rhyme | Echo or imitation of a sound.
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| Rhythm | Sense of movement.
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| Shift | Change.
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| Soliloquy | Speech in which a character is alone and expresses his or her thoughts.
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| Sonnet | 14 Lined poem.
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| Stanza | Group of lines that forms a division of a poem.
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| Symbol | Object that signifies something greater than itself.
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| Synecdoche | FOS in which a part is substituted for a whole. (car- "wheels")
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| Theme | Conveyed insight to life.
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| Verse | Line of metrical language, in contrast to prose.
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