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AP English Cards
Question | Answer |
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Allegory | A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating to each literal term to a fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral principle. |
Zeugma | The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way. |
Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial constant sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
Villanelle | A short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number,followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. |
Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. |
Vignette | A decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. |
Apostrophe | Figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude towards the subject, the audience, or himself or herself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of the work. |
Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
Tercet | A 3-lined stanza exhibited in terza rima and villanelle as well as in other poetic forms. |
Ballad | A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form. |
Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. |
Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
Symbol | Something that means more than what it is. |
Caesura | A speech pause occurring within a line. |
Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout the poem. |
Chiasmus | A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. |
Sonnet | A fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types - the Italian or the English. |
Climax | The turning point or high point in a plot. |