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AP Literature and Composition Exam Terms Review (last 50)
AP Literature and Composition Exam Terms Review (last 50)
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Used in preparation for the AP Lit exam.
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That portion of discourse that wanders or departs from the main subject or topic.
solipsism
reflective prose
authorial intrusion
digression
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A brief and often simplistic lesson such as “Treat others as you would be treated.”
motif
moral
critique
concept
3
word order and word choice used to create and manipulate meaning
clause
syntax
trope
antecedent
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The role or facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader or other audience.
authorial intrusion
empathy
persona
villanelle
5
when a thought or phrase continues past the end of a line onto the next
rhythm
enjambment
caesura
end-stopped line
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An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject.
farce
invective
parody
bombast
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Using opposite words in parallel structure
reiteration
denouement
elliptical construction
antithesis
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What is the usual rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet?
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
ABBAABBACDECDE
ABABCDCDEFEFDD
ABBAABBACDCDCD
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A type of poem containing the rhyme-scheme is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.
English Sonnet
terza rima
Villanelle
Italian Sonnet
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a quality that gives readers a vision of life as it is or could have been
stream of consciousness
verisimilitude
anachronism
euphony
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also called 3rd person, when the narrator is not a character in the work.
omniscient
external point of view
subjective
internal point of view
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A work of literature dealing with rural (country) life.
lampoon
romance
homily
pastoral
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A false name or alias used by writers.
pseudofont
pseduku
pseudonym
nom de mon
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where real life is depicted, usually depressing, for social change
humanism
romanticism
realism
naturalism
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any word, phrase or clause that describes another word in a sentence.
referent
style
modifier
syntax
16
two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
bimeter
villanelle
couplet
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How many lines does a sonnet possess?
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12
16
14
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A word to which a pronoun refers
conditional referent
antecedent
contracentenal
incidental
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The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning --the meaning “between the lines.”
abstract
subtext
anecdote
exegesis
20
art associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans--emphasis on reason, consistency and order.
realism
humanism
classicism
naturalism
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The point of resolution that occurs at the end of a narrative or drama, real or imagined.
climax
denouement
deus ex machina
exposition
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a conscious vagueness in meaning meant to evoke multiple ideas and interpretations
pathos
catharsis
ambiguity
mood
23
a stanza of four lines
sinquet
quatrain
pentameter
quatrameter
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A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding words to suggest different meanings.
dysphemism
euphemism
connotation
pun
25
A poem containing the consistent use of unrhymed iambic pentameter
ballad meter
heroic couplet
blank verse
free verse
26
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
blank verse
free verse
modern verse
expressive verse
27
A lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place.
idyll
ode
dystopia
caesura
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A poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing of something of value.
idyll
elegy
ode
eulogy
29
Putting ideas, words, or phrases next to one another to heighten their opposing meanings.
synecdoche
analogy
juxtaposition
conceit
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An indirect quotation; when another’s idea is given but not in the original wording.
anecdote
paraphrase
critique
exegesis
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using multiple instances of a conjunction; this shows multiplicity and slows down the narrative
antithesis
ellipsis
asendeton
polysendeton
32
Another name for an Italian Sonnet
Petrarchan
English
Shakespearean
Elizabethan
33
A lecture or sermon on a religious or moral theme meant to guide human behavior.
allegory
homily
belle-lettres
invective
34
four-line stanzas going back and forth between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
Terza Rima
tercet
ballad meter
villanelle
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when the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind in narration
stream of consciousness
lyrical prose
authorial intrusion
anachronism
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A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
Villanelle
ballad
sonnet
ode
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A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience.
adage
synesthesia
analog
epithet
38
pattern or stanza of three lines
couplet
tercet
trimeter
quatrain
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When the narrator is also a character in the work.
2nd person
3rd person
1st person
omniscient
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An abstract or ideal conception of a type; ; an original model or form.
allegory
symbol
myth
archetype
41
breaks in rhythm, thought, or syntax that occur anywhere between the beginning & end of a line
enjambment
end-stopped line
stanza
caesura
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A metrical foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. (as in "boring")
trochee
iamb
spondee
pyhrric
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A brief, interesting story about someone.
retraction
anecdote
indirect quotation
whimsy
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A metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. (as in "regard")
trochee
spondee
iamb
pyhrric
45
A sentence in which the main idea of the sentence is presented first, followed by description.
periodic sentence
balanced sentence
cumulative sentence
interrupted sentence
46
A sentence not expressing the main clause until the very end.
balanced sentence
periodic sentence
loose sentence
cumulative sentence
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a work (novel, story, etc.) written in the form of letters to someone
epistolary
stream of consciousness
eponymous
exposé
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A false name or alias used by writers. Also called "nom de plume"
terza rima
epistle
eponymous
pseudonym
49
A main character with sympathetic traits not often associated with heroes.
protagonist
antihero
foil
antagonist
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A metrical foot with two stressed syllables. (as in "fresh fish")
spondee
iamb
pyhrric
trochee
