5875247769 | allegory | events in a story symbolize a deeper meaning | 0 | |
5875247770 | allusion | reference to literature or history | 1 | |
5875247771 | caesura | pause in a line of poetry | 2 | |
5875247772 | connote | to suggest meanings in addition to the main meaning | 3 | |
5875247773 | couplet | a pair of rhyming lines of verse | 4 | |
5875247774 | dramatic irony | when a situation is understood by the reader and not the character | 5 | |
5875247775 | discursive | passing aimlessly from one subject to another | 6 | |
5875247776 | elegy | a mournful poem | 7 | |
5875247777 | end-stopped-line | line of poetry ends with punctuation | 8 | |
5875247778 | enjambment | sentence continuing to a poem's next line | 9 | |
5875247779 | form | style or shape of a poem | 10 | |
5875247780 | hypothetical | supposed; not well supported withe vidence | 11 | |
5875247781 | interjection | something interjected as a remark | 12 | |
5875247782 | juxtapose | to place side by side for the purpose of comparisson | 13 | |
5875247783 | metaphor | comparisson with something unlike | 14 | |
5875247784 | mock heroic style | immitating that which is heroic | 15 | |
5875247785 | mood | the feeling you get from a work | 16 | |
5875247786 | paradox | contradictory statement that may express truth | 17 | |
5875247787 | parallel syntax | repetition of words or phrases to emphasize a point | 18 | |
5875247788 | pastoral | poem about the life of shepherds | 19 | |
5875247789 | personification | giving human qualities to an abstract object | 20 | |
5875247790 | redundant | unnecessary repetition | 21 | |
5875247791 | rhetorical | language used for style or effect | 22 | |
5875247792 | scansion | the process of measuring verse | 23 | |
5875247793 | simile | comparisson using like or as | 24 | |
5875247794 | situational irony | difference between what's expected and what happens | 25 | |
5875247795 | surrealism | stresses the subconscious significance of imagery | 26 | |
5875247796 | synecdoche | using part for the whole or a whole for the part | 27 | |
5875247797 | syntax | pattern or formation of sentences and phrases | 28 | |
5875247798 | theme | meaning of the work as a whole | 29 | |
5875247799 | tone | the author's attitude toward their subject | 30 | |
5875247800 | verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 31 |
Ap Lit Sem 1 Flashcards
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