AP Lit Terms 1-50

Poem composed of 3 quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter and rhymes

An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem

The picture shows an example of what?

The picture shows an example of what?

The picture shows an example of what?

A poem similar to a speech, where the speaker reveals their character while describing an event

The picture shows an example of what?

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Ex: You can save money by spending it

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

Ex: The EArly bIrd catches the wOrm (capitalized letters make the same sound)

Ex: The house is a castle

Ex: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore

When an author uses a single metaphor at length multiple times throughout a poem or story

Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

Ex: when everyone in class plays a different song at the same time

Ex: a // represents what?

Ex: Winners never quit, and quitters never win -Vince Lombardi

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The name of the person (normally) who is being directly spoken to

The picture is an example of what?

When two or more words repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds

Ex: Good Samaritan

A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

"I like swimming better than diving", is an example of what?

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

The picture shows an example of what?

Ex: BOOM!

Ex: "Here lies Robbie, such a dear and gentle soul"

"The leaves danced their way through the lawn", is an example of what?

A short text honoring a deceased person

When you use words that have the same sound at the beginning

Ex: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

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The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line that rhymes with another word following it

Sound word

Ex: saying "you look blue" instead of "you look sad"

A line of verse with five metrical feet, containing a short syllable followed by a long one

Words common in everyday speech

Ex: saying "The Oval Office was busy in work", instead of naming the people in the oval office

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Ex: saying "wonderful weather we're having" when it's storming

A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way

The attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman

Ex: Don Quixote

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The picture shows an example of what?

The picture is an example of what?

The words in the box in the picture is an example of what?

A reference to a famous work of art or literature

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story

A break between words within a metrical foot

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The picture shows an example of what?

A type of poetry which expresses personal emotions, typically spoken in the first person

The picture shows an example of what?

Ex: Because the boys went to the park, they did not go to the zoo

Comparison between two things without using like or as

The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence

The use of irony to expose and criticize people's stupidity

Contrasting a description with what actually happens

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

This picture shows an example of what?

Ex: Jumbo Shrimp

An image of something in which certain characteristics are exaggerated to create a comic effect

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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers

Ex: “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,How I wonder what you are..." (star represents an idea)

The picture shows an example of what?

Ex: saying "nice wheels" but talking about the car as a whole

The picture shows an example of what?

A didactic story, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles

A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead

The picture shows an example of what?

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject

A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet

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The picture shows an example of what?

A pattern of invalid reasoning because its logical structure is flawed

Ex: analyzing the nature of Mickey Mouse

Ex: saying that it is a little warm when the temperature is 100 degrees Fahrenheit

Ex: calling someone a not so good word

Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" speech is an example of what?

When a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem

Ex: the words "today" and "play" in the picture are an example of what?

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

A question that you ask without expecting an answer

A poem consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme and of a sestet with one rhyme scheme

"My dog is as smelly as dirty socks" is an example of what?

A true statement that leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain

The analysis of the combination of traits distinguishing the individual nature of a person

A comparison using like or as

An imitation of some style with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses