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AP Literature terms
Section 19
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tragic flaw | a flaw or an error in judgement |
| trimeter | a poetic line with three metrical feet |
| trochiac | poetic line created with 1 accented, 1 unaccented syllable |
| trope | another name for figurative language |
| understatement | statement in which the literal sense of what is said falls short of the magnitude of what is being talked about |
| verbal irony | a kind of irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of their actual meaning |
| verisimilitude | the semblance of truth; the degree to which a writer creates the appearance of truth |
| villanelle | a poem with 5 triplets and a final quatrain; only 2 rhyme sounds are permitted in the entire poem; the first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated |
| voice | the "speaker" in a piece of literature |
| zeugma | any of several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech |
| ballad | a narrative poem describing a past happening that is sometimes romantic but always ends catastrophically |
| concrete poetry / shaped verse | an attempt to supplement verbal meaning with visual devices from painting and sculpture |
| elegy | a personal poem of grief and mourning |
| epic | a long narrative poem about a hero, starting with an invocation to the muse and beginning in medias res (in the middle) |
| haiku | form of poetry, consists of 17 separate syllables, arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 |
| occasional poetry | poetry written for a particular event or happening |
| sonnet (Italian) | fixed form consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter; has an octave with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba and a sestet rhyming variously, but usually cdecde or cdccdc |
| sonnet (Shakespearean) | fixed form consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter; lines are grouped in 3 quatrains, alternating rhymes (ababcdcdefef) followed by a heroic couplet (gg), usually epigrammatic |
| villanelle | a poem with 5 triplets and a final quatrain; only 2 rhyme sounds are permitted in the entire poem; first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated |
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