AP English lit terms 3

24043408	alliteration	repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words
24043409	assonance	repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds
24043410	consonance	repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds
24043411	cacophony	harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words
24043412	euphony	pleasant, easy to articulate words
24043413	onomatopoeia	use of words which mimic their meaning in sound
24043414	sibilance	hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh
24043415	allegory	characters are symbols, has a moral
24043416	apostrophe	someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply
24043417	didactic poetry	poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching
24043418	dramatic monologue	character "speaks" through the poem; a character study
24043419	elegy	poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme
24043420	sonnet	14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
24043421	connotation	what a word suggests beyond its surface definition
24043422	denotation	basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
24043423	diction	choice of words for effect
24043424	syntax	word order or grammatical appropriateness
24043425	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter
24043426	caesura	a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation
24043427	couplet	two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work
24043428	enjambment	describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line
24043429	feminine rhyme	latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing)
24043430	free verse	no fixed meter or rhyme
24043431	iambic pentameter	70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables
24043432	internal rhyme	repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line)
24043433	masculine rhyme	final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled)
24043434	meter	regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time
24043435	refrain	repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern
24043436	rhyme	repetition of end sounds
24043437	rhythm	wave-like recurrence of sound
24043438	stanza	group of lines
24043439	structure	internal organization of a poem's content
24043440	allusion	a reference to something in literature of history
24043441	anaphora	repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines
24043442	archetype	a character or personality type found in every society
24043443	conceit	an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor
24043444	hyperbole	exaggeration, overstatement
24043445	imagery	representation through language of a sensory experience
24043446	irony	incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational
24043447	metaphor	implied or direct comparison
24043448	metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)
24043449	mood	the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem
24043450	oxymoron	compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other
24043451	pace	tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem
24043452	paradox	statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements
24043453	parallelism	presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner
24043454	persona	assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker'
24043455	personification	giving a non-human the characteristics of a human
24043456	simile	comparison using 'like' or 'as'
24043457	style	an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage
24043458	symbolism	something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is
24043459	synecdoche	symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board)
24043460	theme	central idea
24043461	tone	writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly
24043462	understatement	saying less than one means, for effect
24043463	paraphrase	summary
24043464	first-person	Point of view in which the narrator uses "I"