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AP Lit terms 2

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Figurative Language language that compares (i.e similies, metaphors, personificaion, metonymy) in imagery rather than literal way.
Figures of speech Expressions such as similies, metaphors, personification, metonymy, that make imaginative rather than literal comparisons.
Flashback A device that enables the writer to return to past thoughts or events.
Foot The basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables.
Free verse verse or poetry without a set rhyme, meter or traditional form.
Heroic couplet Rhymed pair of lines written in iambic pentameter.
Hyperbole Exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis
Imagery language that appeals to the five senses
In Media Res The story starts in the middle.
Invective Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks.
Inversion Reversing the customary order in a sentence, clause, or phrase.
Irony An unexpected contrast between what happens or what is said and what was expected or meant.
Dramatic Irony the words or acts of a character which carry meaning not provided by the character but ovbious to the audience.
Verbal Irony intent expressed in words that carry opposite meaning.
Shakespearean Sonnet 14 line poem that contains three quatrains and a couplet.
Meafiction Fiction engaging with, and/or commenting upon the nature of fiction.
Metaphor A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another thing unlike it
controlling Metaphor metaphor that dominates or oraganizes entire work.
Extended metaphor a metaphor that dominates a section of poem
Meter The prevailing pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable.
Metonymy A figure of speech that uses something closedly associated with a person, place, thing, or idea to stand for the idea.
Motif Recurrent(repeated)device, formula, or situation that dilleberatedly connects a poem or novel with common patterns.
Ononmotopeia The use of words that sound lide what they mean.
oxymoron A figure of speech with contradictory words or phrases.
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