AP English (Genre-Meter)

Genre-Meter GCA

83361343	Genre	Refers to a type of literature specific to its style, form, or content. Examples include mystery novels, epic poems, and tragic plays
83361344	Gothic, Gothic Novel	Gothic is the sensibility derived from gothic novels
83361345	Hubris	The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall
83361346	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or overstatement of the truth
83361347	In media res	Latin for "in the midst of things."
83361348	Interior Monologue	A term from novels and poetry, not dramatic literature. It refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head
83361349	Lambic pentameter	Since roughly 90 percent of all verse is written in iambic pentameter, it is helpful to carefully define it
83361350	Inversion	Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. When done badly it can give a stilted, artificial, look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse, but poets do it all the time
83361351	Irony	the writer uses a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal or normal meaning. There are three forms of irony commonly used: dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony
83361352	Lament	A poem of sadness or grief or death of a loved one or over some other intense loss
83361353	Lampoon	A satire
83361354	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world (or the part that his poem is about). When the word lyric is used to describe a tone it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness
83361355	Melodrama	A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine o-so-pure
83361356	Metaphor	A comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used
83361357	Meter	The patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry