AP Literature quiz 3 Basic Terms Flashcards
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| 9973768371 | climax | point where conflict hits its highest point |  | 0 |
| 9973768372 | comedy | drama that is amusing or funny |  | 1 |
| 9973771603 | conflict | struggle between opposing forces |  | 2 |
| 9973774655 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 3 |
| 9973774656 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 4 |
| 9973778340 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 5 |
| 9973778341 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 6 |
| 9973780564 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 7 |
| 9973784229 | deus ex machina | resolution of a plot by chance or coincidence |  | 8 |
| 9973788887 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 9 |
| 9973792178 | direct presentation of character (Direct Characterization) | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 10 |
| 9973794621 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) |  | 11 |
| 9973799749 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 12 |
| 9973799750 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 13 |
| 9973803642 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 14 |