AP Literary Terms (lyric - persona)
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MuzikLuver95 on July 26, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lyric | a type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world |
| masculine rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |
| melodrama | a form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very goo, the villian mean and rotten, and the heroin oh-so-pure |
| metaphor | a comparison, or analogy that states on thing is another |
| metaphysical conceit | reserved for metaphysical poems only |
| metonym | a word that is used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with. |
| mood | the atmosphere of the story |
| nemesis | the protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty. |
| neologism | new word, usually one invented on the spot |
| non-sequitur | "it does not follow" |
| objectivity | an impersonal or outside view of events. |
| Onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean |
| opposition | a pair of elements that contrast sharply |
| oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction |
| parable | a story that instructs |
| paradox | a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not |
| parallelism | a rhetorical device used in written and oral compositions since ancient times to accentuate or emphasize ideas or images by using grammatically similar constructions |
| paraphrase | to restate phrases and sentences in your own words, to re-phrase |
| parenthetical phrase | a phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail. |
| parody | the works that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness |
| pastoral | a poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds |
| pathetic fallacy | the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human emotions, thoughts, sensations and feelings. |
| pathos | when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy |
| periodic sentences | not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase |
| persona | the narrator in a non first-person novel. |
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