AP lit. terms
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- Characterization
- conveys a characters values, personality, life history,and physical attributes
- blank verse
- dont rhyme, iambic pentameter
- free verse
- no rhyme pattern, uneven but flowing
- envelope stanza
- \"abba\" used in italian sonnet
- rhymed quatrains
- 4 line stanzas and 2 rhyming couplets(abab)
- rhymed coupplets
- \"abab\" 1st and 2nd lines rhyme
- shakesperean sonnet
- english. \"abab, cdcd, efef, gg\" made for less beautiful language in rhymes
- iambic pentameter
- 10 syllablesin each line and are stressed and unstressed
- poetry analytical techniques
- situation,speakers, structure,theme, relevant images or words, tone,prosody(rhythm-rhyme)
- syntaxtic techniques
- rhetoricals, fragments, parallels, repitition,anaphora, polysyndenton, punctuation, sentence length/type, juxatoposition, inverted word order
- rhetorical
- increase a readers thought process in a scene
- fragments
- incomplete sentences
- parallel structure
- similar structure or grammar
- anaphora
- repeated phases in the beginning, more persuassion on an idea
- polysyndeton
- use of conjunctions, to show a change in idea
- punctuation
- to clearify meaning by showing \"starts and stops\"
- sentence types
- convey precise ideas, entertain w/ sentence variety and make it interesting and lively
- juxtaposition
- words that contrasts \"soft rock\"
- pleonism
- \"frozen ice\"\"sharp point\" \"killed dead\"
- diction
- connotation, denotation, jargon, literal, lyrical,dialect,slang
- diction levels
- provides info on the time period, education level, age, genre\'
- connotation
- feelings evoked from words= meaning/tone
- denotation
- dictionary definition-no emotion
- jargon
- words related to a perticular profession...dentist says cavity.
- lyrical
- flow with good sounding words and uses emotion \"song like\"
- literal
- straight to the point
- dialect
- shows little emotion conveying time and region...speech
- figurative language
- personification, apostrophe, euphernism, hyperbole,paradox, allusion,symbolism,oxymoron, onomatopoeia...describes 1 thing in terms of another
- understatement
- author makes situations seem less...dumbing down
- over statement
- makes a situation seem more important than it is...exageration
- euphemism
- substitution of a mild word for a more negative/harsh one..dead instead of passed...disguises and exploits something bad
- allusion
- reference to historical event or lit. figure..clearify without being sidetracted. for energy and variety
- paradox
- contradictions that seem true
- hyperbole
- exageration for heighten effect for recognition-to be humorous...\"hype\"
- apostrophe
- adresses a person or thing to display intense emotion interupting discussion
- using flowery words to show importance to discussion
- symbolism
- simile
- like or as
- metaphor
- compares two unlike things
- personification
- human traits to inanimate objects