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AP Literary Term
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A solemn celebration for the repose of souls of the dead | requiem |
| The study of effective use of language | rhetoric |
| The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds | rhyme (rime) |
| A rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of the words involved; one form of feminine rhyme | double rhyme |
| when sounds involve more than one syllabe (turtle-fertile, spitefully-delightfully) Rhyme in which repeated accented vowel is in either second or third last syllable of words involved (ceiling-appealing or hurrying-scurrying) | feminine rhyme |
| If preceding consonant sound is same (manse-romance, style-stile), or if there is no preceding consonant sound in either word (aisle-isle, alter, altar), or if same word is repeated in rhyming position (hill-hill) | identical rhyme |
| when sounds involve only one syllable (deck-sex or support-retort) Rhyme in which repeated accented vowel sound is in final syllable of words involved (dance, pants, scald-recalled) | masculine (single) rhyme |
| A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of the words involved (gainfully-disdainfully); one form of feminine rhyme | triple rhyme |
| any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | rhyme scheme |
| any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | rhythm |
| ritual or ceremony marking an individual's passing from one stage or state to a more advanced one, or event in one's life that seems to have such significance; formal initiation. Common in initiation stories | rite of passage |
| one line of poetry that ends without pause and continues into to next; line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing sense to flow uninterruptedly into succeeding line | run on line |
| bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed | sarcasm |
| kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with purpose of bringing about reform or keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice | satire |
| process of measuring verse, that is, of making accented and unaccented syllables, dividing lines into feet, identifying metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern | scansion |
| six line stanza or last six lines of sonnet structured on Italian model | sestet |
| complex fixed form of six six lines stanzas plus envoy, using same six end words throughout but repeated in different order in each stanza | sestina |
| metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables equally or almost equally accented | spondee |
| group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout poem | stanza |
| form taken by poem when it is written in series of units having same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme | stanzaic form |
| technique imitates human thought by continuous flow of images, observations, memories and feelings. Often ungrammatical | stream of consciousness |
| emphasis given to syllable in pronunciation | stress |
| style of art and literature developed principally in 20th centry stressing subconscious or non rational significance of imagery arrived at by chance or unexpected juxtaposition | surrealism |
| quality in story which creates uncertainly in reader or listener as to what or how things will work out | suspense |
| figure of speech in which part is used for whole, usually subsumed under broader term Metonymy | synecdoche |
| way words put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | syntax |
| group of 3 lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of 3 | tercet |
| interlocking three line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on | terza rima |
| American philosophical and artistic attitude which states knowledge comes from intuition-highest power of soul.Believes nature provides utility as well as proof of existence of god; natural facts are symbols of spiritual facts (Emerson and Thoureau | transcendentalism |
| meter in which majority of feet contain 3 syllables. Anapestic and dactylic. | triple meter |
| term refers to literature which reveals themes or truths not particular to time and/or place | universality |
| literature creates so-called perfect place or political state | Utopian |
| reality in work of literature | verisimilitude |
| metrical language; opposite of prose | verse |
| fixed form of poetry consisting of ninteen lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: 5 tercets and concluding quatrain. First and third lines of original tercet rhyme. Line 1 repeated as lines 6, 12, and 18; line 3 as 9,15, and 19 | villanelle |
| positioning of words in relation to one another | word order |
| poetry using artificially eloquent language, language too high flown for its occasion and unfaithful to full complexity of human experience | rhetorical poetry |
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