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AP Lit Devices
Literary devices
40
English
12th Grade
10/06/2011

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Ad misericordiam
Definition
hard luck story get out of trouble
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Anapest
Definition
meter unstressed unstressed stressed "I am MONarch of ALL I surVEY"
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Antecedent
Definition
word or phrase to which pronoun refers
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Antihero
Definition
doesn't embody hero
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Aphorism
Definition
short statement about general truth "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise"
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Apostrophe
Definition
rhetorical address to someone not present
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Archetype
Definition
template for character situation symbol
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Aside
Definition
short remarks to audience
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Assonance
Definition
repeated use of a vowel "How now brown cow"
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Aubade
Definition
a poem or song about lover who must leave eachother in the early hours of the morning
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Ballad
Definition
song story
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Blank verse
Definition
unrhymed poetry of iambic pentameter
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Carpe diem
Definition
seize the day You go around only once
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Chiasmus
Definition
opposite of parallel construction; inveting the second of two phrases that would otherwise be in parallel form "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
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Conceit
Definition
far-fetched comparison between 2 unlike things
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Consonance
Definition
same consonany sound in words with different vowel sounds
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Conventional character
Definition
character with traits that are expected or traditional
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Didactic
Definition
to teach moralize or instruct
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Enjambment
Definition
the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza to the next without pause
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Epigram
Definition
short clever poem
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Epigraph
Definition
brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme
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Dactyl
Definition
3 sylables one stressed 2 short
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Denouement
Definition
outcome or clarification at the end
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Diction
Definition
word choice
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Epistolary novel
Definition
letter (mail) = epistle therefore a novel in letter form
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Euphony
Definition
opposite of cacophony
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Farce
Definition
exaggerated or imporbably situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendo to amuse
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Foil
Definition
character who contrasts Banquo vs Macbeth
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
rhymed couplet written in iambic pentameter
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
u|u|u|u|u|
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Internal rhyme
Definition
rhyme in a line "A narrow fellow in the grass"
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Petrarchan sonnet
Definition
14 line 2 parts: 8 lines: abbaabba 6 lines: cdcdcd or cdecde
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Litotes
Definition
affirmation of an idea by using a negative understatement. the opposite of hyperbole. "She is no saint." "He was not averse to taking a drink"
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Metonymy
Definition
a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a closely associated word or phrase "the White House" in stead of "the president" or "the presidency" "brass" to mean "military officers"
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Pastoral
Definition
a poem play or story that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shepherds.
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Pathos
Definition
the bit of lit. work or passage which appeals to the reader's emotions, esp. pity, compassion and sympathy
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Periodic sentence
Definition
a sentence that delivers it's point at the end "At the piano she practiced scales."
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Shakespearean sonnet
Definition
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
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Stock character
Definition
steriotypical character; a type; similar to conventional character and flat character
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Synecdoche
Definition
a figure of speech where one part represents the entire object or vice versa. "All HANDS on deck; lend me your EARS."
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