233237598 | Epiphany | A moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances. | |
233237599 | Euphony | A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | |
233237600 | Expected rhythm | The rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem. | |
233237601 | Extended Figure | a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem | |
233237602 | Extrametrical syllables | in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines | |
233237603 | Falling action | The segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion. | |
233237604 | Fantasy | A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality | |
233237605 | Farce | A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing imponderable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and course wit over characteriztion or articulated plot. | |
233237606 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved | |
233237607 | Figurative language | language that is not meant to be taken literally | |
233237608 | Figure of speech | any way of saying something other than the ordinary way | |
233237609 | First-person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | |
233237610 | Fixed Form | any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition | |
233237611 | Folk Ballad | narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down | |
233237612 | Foot | the basic unit of meter used in the scansion or measurement of verse, either consisting of 2 or 3 syllables | |
233237613 | Form | the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content |
AP Senior Lit List 5
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