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Ap English Terminology
Some Key Words For the AP English Exam
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English
12th Grade
05/02/2009

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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
Definition
A pause, metaphoric or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry.
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End-stopped
Definition
A line that has a natural pause at the end.
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Enjambment
Definition
The running over of a sentence or though into the next couplet or line without a pause at the ned of the line.
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.
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Foot
Definition
Teh basic unit of mater consisting of a group of two or three syllables. [types = stressed syllable & unstressed]
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Frame
Definition
A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel.
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Free Verse
Definition
Verse that has neither rgular rhyme nor regular meter. Free verse often use cadances rather than uniform metrical feet.
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Meter
Definition
The rhythmic pattern produced when words are arranged so that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence, resulting in repeated patterns of accent.
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Sonnet
Definition
A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied line scheme.
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (An iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.)
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Shakespearean Sonnet
Definition
Three quatrains and a couplet.
ABAB
CDCD
EFEF
GG
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Petrarchan Sonnet
Definition
Divided into an octave and a sestet, the octave opening the poem and presenting a problem in its eight lines, and he sestet concluding the poem in its six lines.
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Consonance
Definition
A repetition of consonants, especially at the end of a sentence.
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Alliteration
Definition
Use of the same constant at the beginning of each word.
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Allegory
Definition
A figurative work in which a surface narrative actually carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning.
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Apologue
Definition
A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition.
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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Juxtapose
Definition
To put close together, to place side by side.
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Burlesque
Definition
A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by treating the trivial in an exhalted way (mock dignity)
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Conceit
Definition
An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image. [ie: an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to ship, planet, etc.]
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Dystopian Novel
Definition
anti-utopian novel where, instead of paradise, everything has gone wrong in an attempt to create a perfect society.
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Epic
Definition
An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in high style.
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Epistolary novel
Definition
A novel consisting of letters written by a character or several characters.
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Euphemism
Definition
The substition of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one [ie: passed away instead of died]
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Existentialist novel
Definition
A novel from teh existentialist viewpoint, often pointing out the absurdity and meaninglessness of existence.
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Horation Satire
Definition
In general, a gentler, more good humored and sympathetic kind of satire, somewhat tolerant of human folly even while laughing at it.
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Invective
Definition
Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks. It can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system. It employs a heavy use of negative emotive language.
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Irony
Definition
A mode of expression, through words or events conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation. [an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood]
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Juvenalian Satire
Definition
Harsher more pointed satire, often attacking particular people, sometimes thinly disguised as fictional characters.
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Lampoon
Definition
A crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person.
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Parody
Definition
A satiric imitation of a work or fan author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or his work.
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Petrarchan Conceit
Definition
The kind of ingenious metaphor popular in Renaissance English sonnets.
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Ridicule
Definition
Words intended to belittle a person or idea and arouse contemptuous laughter.
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Sarcasm
Definition
A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise.
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Satire
Definition
A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change.
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Tone
Definition
A writer's attitude towards his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view.
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Travesty
Definition
A work that treats a serious subject frivolously - ridiculing the dignified.
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Verisimilitude
Definition
How fully the characetrs and actions in a work conform to our sense of reality. [High Verisimilitude means a work is very realisitc and believable]
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