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AP LIT - Glossary #8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lyric | A short poem expressing the personal feelings of a first-person speaker. The term comes from the Greek word lyre, and the form is descended from poems intended to be sung with a lyre. |
| Masque *** research more | Now extremely rare, this genre of lush spectacle, song, dance, masks, and elaborate staging was popular among sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British nobles, who also made up its amateur and occasionally royal cast. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares or equates two things without using like or as. For comparisons made using like or as, see simile. |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire literary work. In “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (p. 677), the metaphor of losing as an art to be practiced and perfected is repeated and developed throughout an entire literary work. |
| Metaphysical Conceit | Sets up a striking analogy between two entities that would not usually invite comparison, between the physical and the spiritual. This literally device is famously used by metaphysical poets, including John Donne and George Herbert. |
| Meter | The formal, regular organization of stressed - unstressed syllables, measured in feet. A foot is distinguished by the number of syllables it contains and how stress is placed on the syllables stressed ( ́) or unstressed ( ̆). tetramr, pentameter, and hex |
| Iamb | (unstressed/stressed) |
| Trochee | (stressed/unstressed) |
| Anapest | (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) |
| Dactyl | (stressed/unstressed/unstressed) |
| Spondee | (stressed/stressed) |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it. Compare to synecdoche; see also metaphor. |
| Minimalism | A style in prose or verse that emphasizes economy of words and unadorned sentences. |
| Modernism | Modernism writers reached their apex between the 1920s and 1930s - disillusionment with contemporary Western civilization, World War I’s slaughter. diff form - art as restorative and frequently ordered their writing around symbols an allu TS Eliot VW JJo |
| Monologue | In a play, a speech given by one person. |
| Mood | Synonymous with atmosphere, mood is the feeling created for the reader by a work of literature. Many things can generate mood — especially style, tone, and setting. |
| Motif | A recurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveals a theme in a work of literature. |
| Naive Narrator | A narrator who is naive. |
| Narrative | A story. Narratives may be written either in prose or in verse, as in narrative poetry. |
| Narrative Frame | AKA frame story, a narrative frame is a plot device in which the author places the main narrative of his or her work within another narrative — the narrative frame. This exterior narrative usually serves to explain the main narrative in some way. |
| Narrator | The character, or persona, that the author uses to tell a narrative, or story. Narrators may tell stories from several different points of view, including fi rst person, second person (very rare), and third person. See point of view. |
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