AP English Lit Terms:Truism-Zeugma

44013702	Truism	a way too obvious truth: "the sun rises and sets."
44013703	Understatement	Ironic minimizing of fact, also called meiosis. ex. "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches"
44013704	Unreliable Narrator	first person narrator is crazy, very young, or not entirely credible
44013705	Utopia	An idealized place: Huxley's brave new world
44013706	Verisimilitude	how precisely the characters/events in fiction match reality: a teenager goes somewhere without permission and tells her parents she was really at the library. If she is adding creative details about what happened she is attempting to add verisimilitude to her story.
44013707	Villanelle	19 lines of 5 tercets (aba) + a quatrain (abaa); a nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas.
44013708	Voice	associated with the basic vision of a writer; the author's general attitude toward the world.
44013709	Weak Specification	imprecise, abstract language: ex. the house is bigger than I am.
44013710	Wit	words that are intellectually amusing; delight that surprises: Mark Twain's "what is the chief end of man- to get rich. In what way?- dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must."
44013711	Zeugma	Word modifies two or more words for different meanings: ex. the dance floor was as square as his personality, on his fishing trip he caught three fish and a cold.