Test Yourself On AP Literature, Poetry Terms - Introduction Flashcards

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1. the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect	A. diction
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2. a pause in a line often indicated by punctuation	B. stanza
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3. figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole	C. hyperbole
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4. a grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically set off from other such clusters by an extra line of space	D. synecdoche
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5. implied comparison between two things of unlike nature	E. theme
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6. the characters that appear as a single row of type regardless of grammatical structure	F. simile
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7. the person who is expressing a point of view in a poem, either the author or a persona created by the author	G. understatement
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8. the representation through language of sense experience	H. metonymy
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9. a run-over line	I. imagery
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10. the words in their arrangement, and the dynamic energy the arrangement creates	J. apostrophe
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11. a setting, object, or event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature	K. syntax
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12. investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities	L. tone
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13. substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant	M. caesura
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14. underlying issues or ideas of a work expressed as a statement that the text seems to be making about its subject matter	N. line
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15. the presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, awful, good, powerful, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comic effect	O. symbol
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16. a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply	P. metaphor
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17. a writer's choice of words	Q. personification
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18. a speaker's attitude as exposed through stylistic choices	R. allusion
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19. explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature	S. enjambment
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20. a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature	T. speaker
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