The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test
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| 4189089050 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings) | 0 | |
| 4189089051 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 1 | |
| 4189089052 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 2 | |
| 4189089053 | Syntax | The ordering and structuring of words. | 3 | |
| 4189089054 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 4 | |
| 4189089055 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 5 | |
| 4189089056 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | 6 | |
| 4189089057 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. | 7 | |
| 4189089058 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. | 8 | |
| 4189089059 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; typically deal with glorious or profound subject matter. | 9 | |
| 4189089060 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 10 | |
| 4189089061 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 11 | |
| 4189089062 | Explicit | To say or write something directly and clearly. | 12 | |
| 4189089063 | Farce | Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy. | 13 | |
| 4189089064 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 14 | |
| 4189089065 | Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry, formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. | 15 | |
| 4189089066 | Foreshadowing | An event of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. | 16 | |
| 4189089067 | Free verse | poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern | 17 | |
| 4189089068 | Genre | A sub-category of literature. | 18 | |
| 4189089069 | Gothic | A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night. | 19 |
