3rd week of AP vocab
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amberruess on October 3, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dissonance | the grating sounds that are harsh or do not go together |
| Elegy | a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person |
| End Rhyme | a rhyme that is at the end of lines of poetry |
| Epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| Epigram | a witty saying in poetry or prose |
| Euphony | A succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry... the opposite of cacophony |
| Exemplum | a tale, usually inserted into the text of a sermon, that illustrates a moral principle |
| Exposition | The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story. |
| farce | a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| figures of speech | expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations. |
| foil | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities |
| folklore | The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. |
| foot | the combo of stressed and unstressed syllables that makes up the basic rhythmic unit of a line in poetry |
| anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
| dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables |
| iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables |
| spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables |
| trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables |
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