Review Of Ap Lit Terms For The Final Exam

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Define: Paradox

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A statement that contains seemingly contradictory ideas, which give insight on a particular idea or sentiment

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Define: Apostrophe

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Often associated with the lofty tone of ancient epic poetry this device is used when a poet addresses something or someone not present.

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Define: Cacophony

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A harsh, dissonant combination of sounds, this is often associated with the consonant sounds k and b and is used to capture a dark though or feeling such as confusion and hopelessness

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Define: Metaphor

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A comparison of two things, usually connected by a form of the verb to be.

"a comparison with OUT using like or as"

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Define: Couplet

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A pair of lines, usually rhymed, it is the most basic unit of poetry

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Define: Epic

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A long narrative poem with an exalted style and heroic theme, such as The aeneid by Virgil and Hoemer's Illiad and Odyssey

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Define: Onomatopoeia

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the term used to explain the situation when the sound of a word corresponds to its meaning, such as the words wham, crash, splash , roar

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Define: Meter

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Dictates where the stress falls in a line of poetry elevates the language by giving it a rhythm and a pattern which ordinary prose and speech do not have

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Define: end-stopped

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the term used when a clause or sentence ends at the end of the line; these lines of poetry end with commas, signifying pause

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Define: Ode

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A poem devoted to the praise of a person, object, or idea, such as John Keat's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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Define: Caesura

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A pause in the middle of a line; it usually divides the line in half, with an equal number of stresses before and after

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Define: Personification

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A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human attributes

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Define: Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Define: Rhyme

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A repetition or pattern of sounds that correspond to one another

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Define: Trochee

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A pair of syllables in which the stress is on the first syllable

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Define: Euphony

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A pleasant, soothing combination of sounds; often used to depict nature

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Define: Iamb

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A pair of syllables in which the stress is on the second syllable; the natural rhythm of speech

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Define: Assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds within words; a more subtle sound device than alliteration; used to enhance the tone and feeling of the poem.

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Define: Monometer

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one foot per line

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Define: Dimeter

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two feet per line

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Define: trimeter

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three feet per line

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Define: tetrameter

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four feet per line

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Define: pentameter

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five feet per line

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Define: hexameter

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Six feet per line

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Define: Heptameter

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seven feet per line

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Define: Octometer

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Eight feet per line

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Define: Diction

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The word choice, which often reveals a poet's attitude toward his or her subject of the matter. Interpretation of this technique is absolutely essential to the meaning of the piece

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Define: Tercet

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a group of three lines of poetry that may or may not rhyme that may or may not have a metrical patter; may serve as a stanza in a poem or as the whole poem itself.

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Define: consonance

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The repetition of middle or end consonants in two or more syllables, words or lines

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Define: Allusion

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a reference to a known person, place, thing, event, idea or literary/historical event; assumes that readers are familiar with literary and cultural history, and depends on this mutual knowledge for effect

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Define: Enjambment

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A technique whereby the sense and grammatical construction of a line of poetry continue on to the next line, creating pressure for the reader to move rapidly to the closure promised in the next line.

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Define:Quatrain

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Four lines of poetry which may or may not follow a metrical pattern or rhyme

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Define: Alliteration

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Occurs when the sound of the first letter of the word is repeated within a line or passage; on eof the most common poetic devices, used to heighten the relationship between words, add to the musicality of a poem, or capture a certain mood or feeling through a second.

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Define: Dactyl

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A group of three syllables in which the first syllable is stressed and the others are not

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Define: Anapest

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A group of three syllables in which the third syllable is stressed and the others are not

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Define: Spondee

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Two consecutive syllables that are equally stressed

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Define: Rhyme Royal

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A seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc used by Chaucer and other medieval poets

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Define: Ballad meter

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a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four

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Define: Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end

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Define: Free Verse

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poetry which is not written in a traditional meter or rhyme

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Define: terza rima

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a three line stanza rhymed aba bcb cdc

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter; the meter of most shakespeare's plays as well as that of milton's paradise lost