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AP Literature My Max Score 2012 Vocabulary Crossword
Down
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2) The opposite of exaggeration.
3) The repetition of a word or phrase for rhetorical effect.
4) Stylistic approach in a literary work whereby the text's lack of clarity allows for multiple, even conflicting interpretations.
5) A direct comparison of two unlike things.
7) Any description that appeals to the senses.
9) French for "unknotting," this final segment of a narrative follows the climax and "winds things up" in the story.
12) In a poem, two consecutive rhyming lines.
14) In a literary work, a reference to something appearing elsewhere in history, culture, or literature.
15) A sudden decline in tension, especially with comic effect or ironic disappointment.
17) Common tragic flaw of protagonists. Translates from the Greek as "pride," the kind of pride that makes a character foolishly think he is on par with the gods.
19) The omission of conjunctions, as in “He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.”
23) Latin for "in the middle of things."
25) A statement or passage made up of balanced parts that undergo a reversal.
26) In a narrative, an episode of conflict, usually between two characters.
28) A relatively brief novel, usually not exceeding 200 pages.
29) Imagery in which the part stands for the whole or vice versa.
30) A poem that glorifies the beauty of nature and the lives of farmers, shepherds, and other bucolic folk.
31) Device in which the initial sound of a word is repeated at least twice in a line of poetry or in a sentence.
33) The implied, rather than direct meaning of a word.
34) Unrhymed iambic pentameter verse - formal, but still conversational.
35) The sequential action of a narrative; what "happened" in a story; what the characters "do."
38) The set, repeated rhythm of a poem.
40) Satirical work that parodies the form of the epic poem.
41) Occurs when the audience knows something that a character doesn't.
42) A resemblance drawn between two items.
46) Consists of 14 lines, contains an intricate rhyme scheme, and discusses an idea rather than telling a story.
47) The central character of a literary work.
49) Long narrative poem, usually featuring a larger-than-life hero who takes a journey during which he receives divine intervention.
50) Part of a narrative during which characters, setting, and initial action are explained.
51) A work of prose or poetry intended for performance on a stage.
53) A recurring pattern of images and symbols.
54) Harsh, unpleasant sounds, especially in poetry.
55) The personality defect that leads the tragic hero in a play to make an error in judgement.
57) A poetic blending of sensory images.
60) An unexpected but fitting twist in a narrative.
62) The audience's release of pity and fear once the tragic hero of a play has experienced a downfall.
63) The narrator's attitude toward her subject.
64) A sequence of four lines in a poem, usually an English sonnet.
66) Expression in which both a literal and figurative predicated split from a single verb phrase.
69) The emotional atmosphere of a work, especially the emotional undercurrents of a setting.
70) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry that leads to meter.
73) Abbreviated prose work featuring devices and language that makes the text sound much like a poem.
75) A long, sustained work of narrative fiction, usually divided into chapters.
76) In a narrative, the point of irreversible action, when what is done cannot be undone.
77) Any literary work that is not poetry, but is written in sentences and paragraphs.
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1) Any description that appeals to the senses.
6) Appears after the exposition of a narrative. In this part of a story, complications begin to arise for the characters.
8) A character, object, or event placed in an incorrect period of time.
10) A work that mocks another text by closely modeling its style and content.
11) Appears at the end of a line of poetry, the most common type of rhyme.
13) The most common meter in English poetry. One line has five iambs, or roughly ten syllables with the accents on the even syllables.
16) A clever, brief observation about some aspect of life, also called a maxim or saying.
18) More developed, complex character
20) Divides its discussion among three quatrains and a final couplet.
21) Understatement, the opposite of exaggeration.
22) The universal truth, observation about line, or main idea of a literary work.
24) Description of a specific region of country, so specific that the land and customs of the region are not likely duplicated anywhere else.
27) Distinctive, purposefully mixed or uneven meter in a poem.
32) A brief work of fictional prose invented roughly in the early 1800s.
36) A pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
37) A work written in verse rather than prose.
39) Expression in which both a literal and a figurative predicate split from a single verb phrase.
41) Poem in which a character speaks as if delivering a soliloquy.
43) A poem of praise and dedication.
44) An indirect comparison between two unlike things.
45) A seemingly self-contradictory statement that upon closer scrutiny actually reveals a truth.
48) Poetry with no rhyme or set meter
52) Long section of an epic poem.
56) The instilling of human characteristics in something nonhuman.
58) Occurs when someone means the opposite of what he says.
59) A symbol so ancient and fundamental that its meaning is understood by the unconscious mind, even without contextual explanation.
61) A play in which a temporarily unstable situation is restored to order by the end.
65) An extended metaphor continuing from an initial comparison.
67) The most common metrical foot in English poetry. It consists of two syllables, the second one accented.
68) A seemingly self-contradictory term or phrase.
71) The repetition of a vowel sound in a sentence or line of poetry.
72) A work that pays homage or respons to another work by closely mimicking its style and content.
74) Part of a narrative that moves from the climax to the denouement
78) A word that has the opposite meaning of another.
79) The time and place of a narrative.
80) The repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.
81) The pattern of rhyme occurring in a poem, usually listed as a sequence of alphabetical letters in which like letter indicate end rhyme.
82) Statement in which two opposites are paired to make a point.
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