List #4 (AP Lit and Comp)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 caesura | (n.) a pause or break within a line of poetry |
| epistrophe | (n.) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. |
| panacea | (n.) a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems |
| lampoon | (n./v.) to ridicule with satire; a mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation |
| lyric poem | (n.) a poem with song-like quality that that does not tell a story, but expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| Spenserian Sonnet | (n.) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc cdcd ee |
| trochee | (n.) a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
| polysyndeton | (n.) the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural |
| chiasmus | (n.) a statement consisting of two parallel phrases in which the second is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out walked Mary.") |
| supplication | (n.) a humble appeal or request |
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