Ap Literature #31-61

What is a conversation between two or more chracters?

What is an unexpected, artificial, or improbable chracter, device, or event?

What is an authors choice of words?

What is elevated language that is often pompous and overdone?

What is speech perculiar to a region?

What is the turning point, or crisis, in a play or other piece of literature?

What is an approach to literature which emphasizes reason, harmony, balance, and clarity?

What is the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work?

What is a dominant technique in which the author analyzes reasons for a chain of events?

What is the specific, exact meaning of a word; a dictionary definition?

What is a work which strives to provoke smiles or laughter?

What is an extended metaphor- two unlike things are compared in several different ways?

What are works considered by scholars to be most important to study or read?

Three syllable foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by the unaccented syllables?

What are informal expressions that find acceptance in certain geographical areas?

What is a latin phrase that means "Seize the day"?

What is the repition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in word near each other?

What is a struggle between opposing forces?

What is the part of the plot in which the entanglement caused by the conflict is developed?

What is a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry?

What is the climax or turning point of a story or play?

Where the actual typeset layout of the poem that suggests the topic

What is a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter?

What is the repetition in successive clauses which are usually parallel in syntax?

What are the emotional implications that a word may carry?

What is the resolution of a plot after the climax?

What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme?

What is a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds which create an effect of discordance?

What is humor that interrupts an otherwise serious scene?

What the pity and fear audience experiences upon viewing the downfall of hero?