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Literature Vocabulary E-I
For AP Literature and Composition
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English
12th Grade
09/16/2009
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Editorial Omniscience
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Electra Complex
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The female version of the Oedipus complex.
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Elegy
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A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation.
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End Rhyme
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End-stopped line
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A poetic line that has a pause at the end. They reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked by punctuation.
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English Sonnet
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Enjambment
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In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
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Envoy
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Epic
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A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.
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Epigram
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A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point.
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Epiphany
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In fiction, when a character suddenly experiences a deep realization about himself or herself; a truth which is grasped in an ordinary rather than a melodramatic moment.
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Episodia
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Euphony
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Refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear.
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Exact Rhymes
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Exodus
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Exposition
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A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
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Extended Metaphor
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Eye Rhyme
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Falling Action
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Falling Meters
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Farce
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A form of humor based on exaggerated, improbable incongruities.
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Feminine Ending
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Feminine Rhyme
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Feminist Criticism
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Approach to literature that seeks to correct or supplement what may be regarded as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
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Feminist Critics
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Figures of Speech
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First-person narrator
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Fixed Form
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Flashback
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Flat Character
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Foil
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Foot
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Foreshadowing
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Form
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Formal Diction
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Formalist Critics
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Formalist strategies/criticism
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Formula Fiction/Literature
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Found poem
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Free Verse
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Gay and Lesbian Criticism
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Gay and lesbian Critics
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Gender Critics
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Gender Strategies/Criticism
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Genre
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Haiku
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Hamartia
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Hero/Heroine
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Heroic Couplet
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High Comedy
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Historical Strategies/Criticism
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History Play
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Hubris, hybris
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Hyperbole
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Iambic Meter
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Iambic pentameter
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Image
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Implied Metaphor
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in medias res
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informal diction
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Internal Rhyme
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Interpretation
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Irony
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Italian Sonnet
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