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AP Lit terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound |
| elegy | a mournful piece of writing especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
| caesura | a break usually near the middle of a verse. |
| enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a break. |
| feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables of which the second is unstressed. |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of back to back sentences. |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part. |
| euphony | pleasing sound to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding |
| sibilance | noting sounds like those spelled with s. |
| Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. |
| Malapropism | an act or habit of misusing words . |
| Aesthetics | the branch of philosophy dealing with the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime,etc. |
| Ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning. |
| Aside | A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play |
| Asyndeton | a reversal in the order of words. |
| Canon | a Greek word that implies rule or law and is used in literature as the source which regulates which selection of authors or works would be considered important pieces of literature. |
| Catharsis | describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience. |
| Chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. |
| Colloquialism | spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
| Denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression. |
| Deus Ex Machina | An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists. |
| Dystopia | a society characterized by human misery. |
| Epigraph | A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work. |
| Epigram | a short satirical poem dealing with a single subject and usually ending with a witty turn of thought. |
| Epithet | In literature a word of phrase following a name which serves to describe the character. |
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