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AP Literature terms
Section 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| periodic sentence | saves the subject and verb of the independent clause until the end of the sentence |
| persona | the mask worn by an actor in Greek drama |
| personification | figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given qualities of speech and/or movement |
| playwright | a person who writes a play |
| plot | the structure of a story or the sequence in which the author arranges events |
| point of view | the perspective from which a narrative is arranged |
| polysyndeton | the repetition of a number of conjunctions in close succession |
| post hoc, ergo propter hoc | Latin for "It happened after, so it was caused by" |
| prose | written expression not having a regular rhythmical pattern |
| protagonist | the main character in a story |
| pun | a play on words where a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time |
| pyretic | a metrical foot having two unstressed syllables |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| quintet | a five line stanza |