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Vocab AP edition Flashcards

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A work that functions on a Symbolic level

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Allegory

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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Harsh and Discordant sounds in a line or passage of a literary work

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Cacophony

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A break or pause whiting a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning

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Caesura

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The author’s choice of words

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Diction

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A poem that laments the dead or a loss

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Elegy

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Background information present in literary work

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Exposition

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A simple, Symbolic story, usually employing animals as characters. Aesop an La Fontaine are authors who excel at this form

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Fable

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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea

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Metonymy

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The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work which is used to develop theme or characters

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Motif

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A set of seemingly contradictory elements which nevertheless reflects an underlying truth

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Paradox

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The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience

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Pathos

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A six line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan sonnet.

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Sestet

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A highly structured poetic form of 29 lines, written in iambic pentameter. It depends upon the repetition of six worlds from the first stanza in each of the six stanzas

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Sestina

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A speech in a play which is used to reveal the character’s inner thoughts to the audience

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Soliloquy

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A highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout

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Villanelle

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A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of a whole

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Synecdoche

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The grammatical structure of prose and poetry

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Syntax

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Something in a literary work that stands for something else

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Symbol

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