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AP Lit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | Extended narrative in which there is a surface story and deeper meaning. |
| Analogy | Comparison. |
| Anaphora | Repetition at the beginning of something to emphasize an idea. |
| Aphorism | Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. |
| Apostrophe | Direct address to someone who is not present. |
| Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed, iambic pentameter. |
| Caesura | A Pause. |
| Carpe Diem | "Seize the Day" |
| Connotation | Abstract Meaning |
| Consonance | Repetition of 2+ consonants, with interchanging vowel. ("Pitter- Patter") |
| Couplet | Pair of rhymed lines. |
| Denotation | Formal definition. |
| Elegy | Formal meditative poem or lament of the dead. |
| Elipses | ... |
| Epistrophe | Ending with the same word(s). |
| Euphemism | A more socially acceptable term. |
| Foil | Opposite character to bring out the character's traits. |
| Foot | Combo of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the metric unit of a line. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form. |
| Jargon | Pattern of speech. |
| Juxtaposition | Placement of an idea next to its opposite. |
| Lyric | Poem in which the speaker expressed intensely person emotion or thoughts. |
| Malapropism | Comic word play in which one word is mistakenly used for a similar one. |
| Metaphor | Implicit comparison, w/o "like" or "as." |
| Meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Metonymy | Name of one thing is substituted for another that is closely related. |
| Metric Line | A line named according to the number of feet composing it. |
| Ode | Lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment. |
| Paradox | FOS that creates mental ambiguity for the reader to seek clarity. |
| Parallelism | Patter that creates rhyme of repetition. |
| Panegyric | Literary expression of praise. |
| Pun | Play on words. |
| Refrain | A line repeated in a poem. |
| Repetition | Repeating for emphasis. |
| Rhyme | Echo or imitation of a sound. |
| Rhythm | Sense of movement. |
| Shift | Change. |
| Soliloquy | Speech in which a character is alone and expresses his or her thoughts. |
| Sonnet | 14 Lined poem. |
| Stanza | Group of lines that forms a division of a poem. |
| Symbol | Object that signifies something greater than itself. |
| Synecdoche | FOS in which a part is substituted for a whole. (car- "wheels") |
| Theme | Conveyed insight to life. |
| Verse | Line of metrical language, in contrast to prose. |
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