List #4 (AP Lit and Comp)

250725241	caesura	(n.) a pause or break within a line of poetry
250725242	epistrophe	(n.) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
250725243	panacea	(n.) a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems
250725244	lampoon	(n./v.) to ridicule with satire; a mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation
250725245	lyric poem	(n.) a poem with song-like quality that that does not tell a story, but expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
250725246	Spenserian Sonnet	(n.) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc cdcd ee
250725247	trochee	(n.) a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
250725248	polysyndeton	(n.) the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural
250725249	chiasmus	(n.) a statement consisting of two parallel phrases in which the second is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out walked Mary.")
250725250	supplication	(n.) a humble appeal or request