Duplicate of AP Literature Terms

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.

According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.

Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality.

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:

Understatement is the opposite of:

"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you" is an example of:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.

A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.

Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge

Antimetabole is a literary device in which a phrase is repeated but in reverse order. Same as:

Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:

A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.

A six line stanza is a:

Characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.

Genre is which characters experience reality differently from what we term the objective world.

"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats

Background or introductory information in a literary work.

"How now brown cow?" is an example of:

A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, and with a rhyme scheme

Asking someone to put their "John Hancock" on a document is an example of:

An excerpt placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.

The quality of being intentionally unclear.

The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life - a heartbeat; conversational meter.

Scansion is:

"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:

A rhetorical question:

A figure of speech - it replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it

Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.

An antecedent is: