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AP Lit Terms List 2
Terms for Mr. Hodges AP Lit Terms List #2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Decorum | In order to observe ________ , a character's speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance with the occasion (ex bums talk about bum stuff) |
| Diction, syntax | the author's choice of words; _______ refer to the ordering and structuring of the words |
| Dirge | song for the dead |
| Dissonance | refers to the grating of incompatible sounds |
| Doggeral | crude, simplistic verse, often in a sing-song rhyme (ex limericks) |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something that the character in the drama do not |
| Elegy | a poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner |
| Elements | the basic techniques of each genre in literature |
| Enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause |
| Epic | a very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style |
| Epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place |
| Euphemism | a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant or impolite reality |
| Euphony | when sounds blend harmoniously |
| Explicit | to say or write something directly and clearly |
| Farce | refers to extremely broad humor |
| Feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables (ex running and gunning) |
| First person narrative | I, we |
| Foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. |
| Foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry |
| Foreshadowing | an event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later |
| Free Verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern |
| Genre | a sub-category of literature |
| Gothic | mysterious gloomy castles perched high upon sheer cliffs |
| Hubris | the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or deliberate overstatement |
| Implicit | to say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly |
| In medias res | "in the midst of things"; (ex when the Iliad begins, the Trojan war had been going on for seven years) |
| Interior Monologue | refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head (related to stream of conscious) |
| Inversion | switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase |
| Irony | a statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean |
| Lament | a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss |
| Lampoon | a satire |
| Loose sentence | complete before its end |
| Periodic sentence | is not grammatically complete until it has reached it final phrase |
| Lyric | a type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world |
| Masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |
| Means | literal _________ which is concrete and explicit |
| Melodrama | a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very good and the villain mean |
| Metaphor | comparison |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
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