AP Terms Flashcards
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| 6727735132 | first person | -"I" and "Me" standpoint -Personal perspective. | 0 | |
| 6727735133 | first person omniscient | a voice that uses "i" and knows the thoughts of the other characters; rare | 1 | |
| 6727735134 | satirical | -mocking, -criticizing through ridicule | 2 | |
| 6727737439 | free verse | - no rhyme scheme - no meter | 3 | |
| 6727738826 | blank verse | - no rhyme scheme - definite meter (usually iambic pentameter) | 4 | |
| 6727737440 | heroic verse | a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes | 5 | |
| 6727737442 | ballad | The ballad is a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB. Ballads are usually narrative, which means they tell a story. (songs today) | 6 | |
| 6727738827 | italian sonnet | - a sonnet composed of an octave (an eight line unit) rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet (six line unit) often rhyming ceded or cdcdcd - couplet DOESN'T rhyme!!! 9how to indicate v shakespearean) |  | 7 |
| 6727740583 | grandiloquently | Extravagantly (Adj) | 8 | |
| 6727740584 | euphemistically | Using a mild or vague expression that substitutes for a harsher one | 9 | |
| 6727742436 | pedantically | adj. academically, precisely | 10 | |
| 6727744414 | benevolence | n. Kindness | 11 | |
| 6728789704 | sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi | 12 | |
| 6728805353 | villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 13 | |
| 6728817142 | elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | 14 | |
| 6728832684 | Objective Point of View | - writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. - The narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer. | 15 | |
| 6728836535 | Omniscient Points of View | A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing, or omniscient. | 16 | |
| 6728839386 | Limited Points of View | A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor, has a limited omniscient point of view. | 17 | |
| 6728843841 | shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |  | 18 |
| 6728910463 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | | 19 |
| 6728910464 | verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 20 |