AP English Slowik Week 7
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aslowik on October 27, 2009
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AP English Literature and Composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cadence | the beat or rhythm of poetry in the general sense. For example, iambic pentameter is the technical name for rhythm. |
| canto | the name for a section division in a long work of poetry; it divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel. |
| caricature | a portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. |
| carpe diem poetry | from the Latin, the admonition often translated as "seize the day" is more accurately "pluck, as a ripe fruit or flower." It was first used by Horace in classical Rome, and is a common theme in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century English love poetry: yield to love while you are still young and beautiful. |
| dynamic character | also called round characters, are three-dimentional and fully realized. These complex people are modified by their actions and experiences. |
| direct characterization | employs explicit exposition, illustrated by the action in the story; we are told what the character is like. |
| chronological order | the order in which events happen in time. |
| chorus | a group of actors speaking or chanting in unison; a characteristic device of Greek drama for conveying communal or group emotion. |
| classic | can mean typical or an accepted masterpiece. |
| climatic order | this means to save the most important or interesting for last. The term emphatic is sometimes used. People tend to remember best the last thing they hear or read. Therefore, if you have several safety precautions to observe, several reasons for supporting a political candidate, or several divisions of a topic to describe, then save the most important for last. |
| climax | the point of highest interest in a story, which elicits the greatest emotional response from the reader. |
| coinage (neologism) | a new word, usually one invented on the spot. |
| Colloquial English | the casual or informal by correct language of ordinary native speakers which may include contractions, slang, and shifts in grammar, vocabulary, and diction. |
| comedy | a literary work aimed at amusing the audience; one of the basic modes of storytelling and can be adapted to most literary forms. |
| common meter | a highly regular form of ballad meter with two sets of rhymes. |
| complaint | a poetic genre in which the poet complains, often about his beloved. |
| complication | the introduction of significant development in the central conflict in a drama or narrative between characters; traditionally, it begins the rising action. |
| complex | suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words (dense). |
| conclusion | in plotting, the logical end or outcome of a unified plot, shortly following the climax. Resolving or untying the knots created by plot complications during rising action. |
| conflict | a clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama. |
| static character | called flat or stock characters, having only two, often predictable, dimensions; they can even be caricatures. They change little if at all. |
| indirect characterization | requires the reader to infer a character's attributes based only on dialogue and action; we are shown what the character is like. |
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