Additional Ap Literature Terms

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Olfactory

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of or relating to the sense of smell (Adj)

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Kinesthesia

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the sensation of movement or strain in muscles, tendons, and joints; muscle sense (Noun)

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Acerbic

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Harsh or severe, as of temper or expression. (Adj)

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Tactile

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Affecting a sense of touch (Adj)

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Colloquial

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A characteristic which makes your speech less formal to appropriate it for ordinary or familiar speech (Adj)

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Gregarious

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Being fond of the company of others (Adj)

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Prosaic

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Matter-of-fact or unimaginative (Adj)

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Wistful

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Characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning (Adj)

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Gustatory

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Referring to taste or tasting (Adj)

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Carpe Diem

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Enjoy the present as opposed to placing all hopes in the future

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Antithesis

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else (Noun)

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Archetype

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a very typical example of a certain person or thing (Noun)

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Irony

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect (Noun)

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Malapropism

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the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect (Noun)

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Euphuism

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a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing (Noun)

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Hubris

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excessive pride or self-confidence (Noun)

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Chiasmus

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a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form (Noun)

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Satire

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the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues (Noun)

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Authorial intrusion

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Authorial Intrusion establishes a one to one relationship between the writer and the reader where the latter is no longer a secondary player or an indirect audience to the progress of the story but is the main subject of the author’s attention

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Pivotal

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of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else (Adj)

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Meter

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meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound

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Foot

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the most basic unit of a poem's meter

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Iambic

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Nothing or pertaining to satirical poetry written in iambs (Adj)

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Dactyl

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Dactyl is a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables

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Trochee

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is a basic metrical unit called a foot consisting of two syllables

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Anapest

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two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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Spondee

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is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables

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Pyrrhic

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A metrical unit consisting of two unstressed syllables, in accentual-syllabic verse, or two short syllables, in quantitative meter

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Caesura

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A caesura is a pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics

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Pentameter

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a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats

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Villanelle

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a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain (Noun)

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit (Noun)

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Verse

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writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

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Petrarchan sonnet

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a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd

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Italian sonnet

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sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (as cde cde or cdc dcd) also known as a Petrarchan sonnet

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Spenserian sonnet

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a sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee

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Shakespearean sonnet

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The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

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Sestina

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a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi

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Terza Rima

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an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc

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Conceit

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a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem

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Prosody

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the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry (Noun)