AP ENGLISH LIT TERMS

Question 0

Atmosphere

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Refers to the quality tht evoke emotional reaction from audience; general feeling of work

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Reference in a work of literature I something outside the work

Question 2

Attitude

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Speaker, author, characters disposition toward subject

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition of a word

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Assonance

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Reption of identitic or similar vowel sounds

Ex: a land laid waste all its young men slain

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Distortion

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Manipulation of reality, time, space, emotion, etc.
Purposely misinterpretation of facts

Ex: putting a computer in a time area tht didn’t exist

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Question 7

Ambiguity

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Multiple meanings of literary work may communicate especially two incompatible meanings

Question 8

Details

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Items or part that make up a larger picture or story

Question 9

Convention

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Device of style or subject that is used often becomes a recognized means of expression

Question 10

Digression

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Use of material unrelated to subject of work

Question 11

Blank Verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Ex: meter of most Shakespeare

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Dactyl

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Short sequence with a line with one Lin or stressed syllable followed by two short unstressed

Question 13

Ballad Meter

Answer 13

4 line stanza rhyme ABCB

Question 14

Didactic

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Instructive tone

Question 15

Consonance

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Sound device that repeats consonance sounds with words

Ex: Bike, buck, back, book, beak, chuckle, fickle, kick

Question 16

Allegory

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A story in which people, things, events have another meaning

Ex: Animal Farm

Question 17

Elegy

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A solemn sorrowful poem or mediation about death or about one who is dead

Question 18

End stopped

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Lines that have a grammatical pause

Question 19

Enlightenment

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Movement of the 18th Century that celebrated reason

Question 20

Epic

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A long narrative poem that describes the history of a nation, community, or race. Epic hero has characteristics of strength, courage, and faces supernatural forces.

Question 21

Epigram

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A pithy statement, often using contrast usually brief and pointed

Question 22

Euphemism

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A figure of speech to avoid bluntness

Question 23

Foot

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A group of sllyables forming a unit of verse

Question 24

Free Verse

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Verse written without any fixed structure

Question 25

Genre

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A particular category of a piece of writing

Question 26

Grotesque

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Involved distortions or incongruities

Question 27

Heroic couplet

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Two ends topped iambic pentameter lines rhymes aa bb cc usually in two lines unit

Question 28

Hexameter

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Line containing six feet

Question 29

Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration

Question 30

Iamb

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Most common metrical foot in English, unstressed syllable followed by a stressed

Question 31

Imagery

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Use of words that involves the senses to create a picture in the readers mind

Question 32

Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within a line instead at the end

Question 33

Irony

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3 types: verbal, dramatic, situational ; the intent an actual meaning differ

Question 34

Lament

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A poem that expresses grief(doesn’t have to be about death)

Question 35

Literal

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Fact or concrete

Question 36

Lyrical

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Song like; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination

Question 37

Metaphor

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