English 12 CP FInal
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- symbol
- a person, place, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself.
- parallelism
- the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea.
- theme
- the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature.
- blank verse/iambic pentameter
- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter/a line of poetry made up of 5 iambs.
- personification
- a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had life.
- allusion
- a reference to a statement, person, place, thing, or event that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
- tanka
- a traditional 5-line form of Japanese poetry.
- haiku
- a brief, unrhymed, 3-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s.
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses.
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
- literary ballad
- composed & written down by known poets, usually in the style of folk ballads.
- assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
- simile
- a figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as".
- extended simile
- epic or homeric simile; many parallels are made b/w 2 unlike things.
- apostrophe
- a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
- irony
- a contrast or discrepancy b/w expectation and reality-b/w what is said and what is meant, b/w what is expected and what really happens, or b/w what appears to be true and what is really true.
- ode
- a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject.
- mood
- the feeling in a literary work.
- sonnet
- a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has 1 of several rhyme schemes.
- synthesia
- in literature, a term used for descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another.
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that makes a comparision between two seemingly unlike things w/o using a connective word such ad "like" or "as".
- terza rima
- an interlocking, 3-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba cdc ded...