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AP Senior Lit List 5

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

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