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AP Literary Term
M-R
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| regularized rhythm, an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. | meter |
| a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience, sometimes distinguished as 2 separate figures: | metonymy |
| usually considered to begin with WWI in 1914, to be marked by sense of catastrophe and fin-de-siecle of that experience and flowering of talent and artistic experienment that came during boom of twenties and fall away during ordeal of economic depression. | modernism |
| reoccurring subject, theme or idea found in artistic work such as opera, symphony, or novel | motif |
| stories, songs, tales, and myths passed by word of mouth from generation to generation | oral tradition |
| a simple and allegorical story from which a lesson should be drawn | parable |
| the use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form | parallelism |
| refers to country life of the innocent sheep and shepherds. This type of writnig may celebrate the country idyll or condemn the innocents for their naivete | pastoral |
| phrase coined by Ruskin to denote tendency to credit nature with human emotions. In larger sense, any false emotionalism resulting in too impassioned decription of nature. Carrying over to inanimate objects of moods and passions of human | pathetic fallacy |
| the quality in art and literature that stimulates pity, tenderness, or sorrow | pathos |
| 14 line poem usually divided between octave, using 2 rhymes arranges abbaabba, and sestet, using any arrangement of either 2 or 3 rhymes: cdcdcd and cdecde common patterns. Usually division between octave and sestet corresponds to division in thought | Petrarchan Sonnet |
| chronicle, usually autobiographical, presenting life story of rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making her/his living more through wits than industry. Tends to be episodic and structureless, | picaresque |
| writing that uses immoderately heigntened or distended language to sway reader's feelings | poeticizing |
| The ideal of justice often found in literature but rarely in life. The good are rewarded and the bad are punished | poetic justice |
| The liberty taken by a writer in deviating from rule, form, convention, or face in order to produce a desired effect in his/her writing | poetic license |
| The author tells the story, using the third person, but limits her/himself to reporting what his characters say or do; s/he does not interpret their behavior or tell their private thoughts or feelings | third person objective (or Dramatic) point of view |
| an abstract or summary | precise |
| play on words based on the similarity of sound between two different words with different meanings | pun |
| A false head, something that misdirects expectation | Red Herring |
| A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form | refrain |
| A quick witty reply or conversation full of quick witty replies | repartee |
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