AP English 2
Terms
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- hubris
- excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall
- hyperbole
- exaggerated overstatement
- "in the midst of things"
- in medias res
- writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head
- interior monologue
- switching the customary order of elements of a word or phrase
- inversion
- statement that means the opposite of what it's supposed to mean
- irony
- a poem of sadness or grief over death of a loved one
- lament
- a satire
- lampoon
- complete before its end
- loose sentance
- not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase.
- periodic sentance
- poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.
- lyric
- rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable
- masculine rhyme
- form of cheesy theater in which hero is very good and villian mean.
- melodrama
- object represents an idea
- symbolism
- main characters arch rival
- nemesis
- word invented on the spot
- neologism
- impersonal or outside view of events
- objectivity
- uses interior or personal veiw of a single observer
- subjectivity
- words that sounds like what they mean
- onomatopoeia
- phrase composed of opposites;contradiction
- paradox
- repeated syntactical similarities
- parallelism
- phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of the sentace
- parenthetical phrase
- work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness
- parody
- poem set in nature
- pastoral
- narrator in a non first-person novel
- persona
- poem expressing sorrow
- plaint
- third person narrator who sees all
- omniscient narrator
- third person narrator who generally reporst only what one character thinks
- limited omniscient narrator
- only reports on what would be visible to the camera
- objective
- narrator who is a character in the story tells the take from his or her point of veiw
- first person narrator
- first person narration but author places reader inside the main characters head
- stream of consciouness
- intro poem to longer work of verse
- prelude
- humerous use of a word that suggests two or more meanings
- pun
- a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of the poem
- refrain
- a song or prayer for the dead
- requiem
- passionate verse of love
- rhapsody
- question that suggest the answer
- rhetorical question
- expresses character flaws to the cold light of humor
- satire
- speech spoken by a character alone on stage
- solilquay
- group of lines roungly analogous in function in verse
- stanza
- cliched character types
- stock
- demand of theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supplying details with their imagination
- suspension of disbelief
- authors choice of words
- syntax
- main position of an argument
- thesis
- weakness of character that leads to his demise
- tragic flaw
- a grotesque parody
- travesty
- way to obvious truth
- truism
- first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or not crediable
- unreliable narrator
- an idealized place
- utopia
- use of word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings
- zeugma