AP Literature Poetry Terms List I
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Terms | Definitions |
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 ALLEGORY | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for otherpeople or events or for abstract ideas or qualities, |
| ALLEGORY | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other |
| ALLITERATION | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that areclose together, people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities, |
| ALLUSION | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature,religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.)., |
| ALLITERATION | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that areclose together, |
| ALLUSION | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature,religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.)., |
| AMBIGUITY | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting,meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- - this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work., |
| ANALOGY | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike, ASSONANCE the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together, |
| CHIASMUS | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part issyntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed. Coleridge: "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike." , |
| CONCEIT, | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor., |
| COUPLET | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry., |
| DICTION | a speaker or writer's choice of words., |
| ELEGY | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. A Eulogy is great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died. |
| EXPLICATION | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. |
| FABLE | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life. |
| FARCE | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations. |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms. |
| FLASHBACK | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. |
| FOIL | A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero. |
| FREE VERSE | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| HYPERBOLE | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times...." |
| IMAGERY | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience., |
| IRONY | a discrepancy between appearances and reality., |
| VERBAL IRONY | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else., |
| SITUATIONAL IRONY | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen., |
| DRAMATIC IRONY | is so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better., |
| LITOTES | is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form: Hawthorne--- "...the wearers of petticoat and farthingale...stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng...", |
| LYRIC POEM | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker., |
| METAPHOR | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles., |
| IMPLIED METAPHOR | does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison: "I like to see it lap the miles" is an implied metaphor in which the verb lap implies a comparison between "it" and some animal that "laps" up water., |
| EXTENDED METAPHOR | is a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer ants to take it. (conceit if it is quite elaborate)., |
| METONYMY | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch., |
| MOOD | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. "Pop." "Zap.", |
| OXYMORON | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. "Jumbo shrimp." "Pretty ugly." "Bitter-sweet", |
| PARADOX | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth., |
| PARALLEL STRUCTURE | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures., |
| PERSONIFICATION | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes., |
| QUATRAIN | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit., |
| REFRAIN | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem., |
| RHYTHM | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language., |
| RHETORICAL QUESTION | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer., |
| SIMILE | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles., |
| SOLILOQUY | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage., |
| SYNECDOCHE | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. "If you don't drive properly, you will lose your wheels." The wheels represent the entire car., |
| THEME | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work., |
| TONE | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization., |
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