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AP LIT URIARTE
Sound and Sense Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| poetry | a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language |
| image, imagery | language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
| ballad | a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
| sonnet | ababcdcdefefgg |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. |
| connotation | an implied meaning of a word. |
| theme | the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express. |
| diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction. |
| dramatic | |
| simile | the comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects. |
| apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. |
| metonymy | substituting a word for another word closely associated with it. |
| figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally |
| symbol | using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |
| allegory | a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. |
| paradox | reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. Two opposing ideas. |
| overstatement, hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement. |
| understatement | used to understate the obvious. On a day of extreme weather, like it is really really hot, one might say, "Is it warm enough for you?" |
| irony | 1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know irony of situation-a discrepency between expected result and actual results |
| sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech, intended to give pain to the person addressed |
| satire | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack. |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. |
| rhythm | a recognizable pulse, or "recurrence," which gives a distinct beat to a line and also gives it a shape. |
| meter | the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
| rhyme | a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. approx? internal? end? |
| meaning; prose and total | |
| idea | |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective. |
| verse | a line of poetry. |
| foot | basic unit in the scansion of metrical verse. one accented syllable or one or two unaccented syllables |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents. |
| phonetic intensives | a word whose sound to some degree suggests its meaning ie flicker |
| fixed form | any form of poetry in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition. such sonnet, villanelle |
| stanza | a unified group of lines in poetry. |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| end-stopped line | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by puncuation |
| run-on line, enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. |
| free verse | a form of poetry which refrains from Meter (poetry), rhyme or any other musical pattern. |
| scansion | the process of measuring metrical verse, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing lines into feet identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds (as in consonance.) |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel (as in assonance.) |
| refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form |
| masculine rhyme | rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved id dance pants, scald recalled |
| feminine rime | rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third to last syllable of the words involved. ie ceiling, appealing, hurrying scurrying |
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