AP Notes 61-64 Flashcards
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Autobiography
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Tells a life story of its author, meaning it is a written record of their life. It is written by the person in their own words.
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Memoir
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A record of memories, and events that have taken place in the author’s life. It is telling of an event from his or her life, not their whole life.
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Cumulative sentence
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A loose sentence that starts with an independent or main clause, which is simple, provides main idea and then adds subordinate elements. It adds them after the subject and predicate.
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Blank Verse
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Defined as an un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry or prose, it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed but do not rhyme, although it can.
