Terms that we will be tested on for our AP Lit final. Anyone can use these, they're poetry terms and terms from the Scarlet Letter. Happy Studying!
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| 241251711 | Penitence | Regret for wrongdoing | |
| 241251712 | Lurid | causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint | |
| 241251713 | Speculation | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | |
| 241251714 | Preternatural | existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | |
| 241251715 | Diabolical | showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | |
| 241251716 | Exhortations | urgings | |
| 241251717 | Intrinsic | belonging to a thing by its very nature | |
| 241251718 | Stigmatized | To characterize or brand as disgraceful or ignominious | |
| 241251719 | Choleric | quickly aroused to anger | |
| 241251720 | Mollified | to soften in feeling or temper | |
| 241251721 | Deportment | one's conduct, behavior, or manner | |
| 241251722 | Phantasmagoric | characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | |
| 241251723 | Visage | the appearance conveyed by a person's face | |
| 241251724 | Pathos | An appeal to emotion | |
| 241251725 | Reviled | to attack with abusive language; to call insulting names | |
| 241251726 | Malevolence | ill will or evil intentions | |
| 241251727 | Propensity | a disposition to behave in a certain way | |
| 241251728 | Deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious | |
| 241251729 | Plebeian | one of the common people | |
| 241251730 | Subjugate | put down by force or intimidation | |
| 241251731 | Festal | offering fun and gaiety | |
| 241251732 | Ludicrous | laughable because of obvious absurdity | |
| 241251733 | Impiety | unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | |
| 241251734 | Retribution | a repayment; a deserved punishment | |
| 241251735 | Pristine | immaculately clean and unused | |
| 241251736 | Malignity | quality of being disposed to evil | |
| 241251737 | Impalpable | incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch | |
| 241251738 | Animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | |
| 241251739 | Loquacious | full of trivial conversation | |
| 241251740 | Jocular | characterized by jokes and good humor | |
| 241251741 | Multitudinous | too numerous to be counted | |
| 241251742 | Necromancy | conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | |
| 241251743 | Edifice | a large, elaborate structure; an imposing building | |
| 241251744 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 241251745 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | |
| 241251746 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | |
| 241251747 | Enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line | |
| 241251748 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | |
| 241251749 | End-Stopped Line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | |
| 241251750 | True Rhyme | the last syllable rhyme sounds (and is usually spelled) exactly the same | |
| 241251751 | Slant Rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | |
| 241251752 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | |
| 241251753 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | |
| 241251754 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | |
| 241251755 | Cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance | |
| 241251756 | Euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | |
| 241251757 | Inversion | the act of turning inside out | |
| 241251758 | Paradox | A statement that at first appears to be self-contradictory but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth. | |
| 241251759 | Synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing | |
| 241251760 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | |
| 241251761 | Personification | Assigning life-like characteristics to inanimate objects | |
| 241251762 | Similie | compares two different things using "like" or "as" | |
| 241251763 | Ballad | a simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited | |
| 241251764 | Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet) | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | |
| 241251765 | English Sonnet (Shakespearean Sonnet) | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | |
| 241251766 | Lyric Poetry | Brief, musical, conveys mood | |
| 241251767 | Dramatic Monolouge | where a character derives a speech explainging his or her feelings, actions, emotions | |
| 241251768 | Elegy | a mournful poem | |
| 241251769 | Villanelle | a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. | |
| 241251770 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | |
| 241251771 | Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | |
| 241251772 | Iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | |
| 241251773 | Dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | |
| 241251774 | Trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables | |
| 241251775 | Anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | |
| 241251776 | Meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time | |
| 241251777 | Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | |
| 241251778 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | |
| 241251779 | Metaphor | A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as" |
