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Vocab Terms 1-15
Ap Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect. |
| Allusion | brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature. |
| Ambiguity | the quality of being open to multiple interpretations. |
| Antecedent | a grammatical device in which a pronoun, noun, or other word refers to an earlier noun or phrase. |
| Apostrophe | A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text of poetry. |
| Attitude | how an author or character feels about something in the novel |
| Ballad Meter | four line stanzas usually rhyming abcd with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter. |
| Clause | a group of words that contains a subject and a verb in a relationship |
| Connotation | the use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning |
| Convention | the features of a literary work that define its genre |
| Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables |
| Denotation | the objective meaning of a word |
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