Ap Lit Verse, Style, And Genre

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Ballad

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A narrative folk song.

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Elegy

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A type of literature defined as a song or poem. written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation

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Epic

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A long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures

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Lyric

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A song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story.

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Ode

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Usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern

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Sonnet

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A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types- Italian or English

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.

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Connotation

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What a word suggests beyond its basic definition

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Denotation

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The strict definition or dictionary meaning of a word

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Ekphrasis

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A poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words

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Epigram

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A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation

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Extended Figure

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(Also known as sustained figure) A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

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Juxtaposition

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Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two tings essentially unlike

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (boom, click, bam)

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

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Rhythm

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Any wavelike recurrence or motion of sound

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Sentimentality

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Unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality