AP Lit #2 9-21-10
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jademarie0228 on September 27, 2010
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Avaricious | greedy for riches |
| Alexandrine | a line of verse that has six iambic feet |
| Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line |
| Canto | a major division of a long poem |
| Infelicitous | not appropriate in application |
| Magic Realism | genre of meticulously realistic painting of imaginary scenes and fantastic images |
| Obfuscate | make obscure or unclear |
| Prolepsis | anticipating and answering objections in advance |
| Prolix | tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length |
| Prolusion | a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book |
| Propositus | Genetics; The family member chosen as the starting point in a geneological resarch in an investigation of an inhereted disease. |
| Spenserian Stanza | A stanza of nine lines in iambic meter, rhymed ABABBCBCC. The first eight lines are in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is in iambic hexameter. |
| Surfeited | indulged to excess |
| Syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") |
| Synthesia | the perceptual experience of one sense that is evoked by another sense |
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