AP English Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
  2. 5. Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines
  3. 7. The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed
  4. 9. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
  5. 10. A metrical line containing three feet
  6. 12. An unexpected turn in the development of a plot
  7. 15. A metrical line containing four feet
  8. 17. A dramatic soliloquy
  9. 18. A play on words
  10. 19. A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees
  11. 20. A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily)
  12. 21. A four-line stanza or a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.
  13. 22. The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
  14. 24. Word organization and order.
  15. 25. A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls
  16. 26. What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word’s overtones of meaning
Down
  1. 1. A metrical line containing five feet
  2. 3. A short, pithy saying that expresses a basic truth or practical precept
  3. 4. Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound
  4. 6. A reversal in order, nature, or effect
  5. 8. Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter
  6. 11. A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work
  7. 13. Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme
  8. 14. Positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast
  9. 16. The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words
  10. 23. Bitter or cutting speech intended to give pain to the person addressed