AP Lit Final Terms - Scarlet Letter and Poetry
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" |