AP Senior Lit List 5

233237598	Epiphany	A moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances.
233237599	Euphony	A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds
233237600	Expected rhythm	The rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem.
233237601	Extended Figure	a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem
233237602	Extrametrical syllables	in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines
233237603	Falling action	The segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion.
233237604	Fantasy	A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality
233237605	Farce	A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing imponderable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and course wit over characteriztion or articulated plot.
233237606	Feminine rhyme	A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved
233237607	Figurative language	language that is not meant to be taken literally
233237608	Figure of speech	any way of saying something other than the ordinary way
233237609	First-person point of view	a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself
233237610	Fixed Form	any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition
233237611	Folk Ballad	narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down
233237612	Foot	the basic unit of meter used in the scansion or measurement of verse, either consisting of 2 or 3 syllables
233237613	Form	the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content