AP Literature and Composition Lit Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A direct address to an abstraction (ex- Death), thing, or an imaginary/absent person
  2. 5. A song or poem that expresses sorrow, usually for one who has died
  3. 8. The writer's attitude or feeling toward his/her subject
  4. 9. In a play, a monologue in which the character, alone on stage, reveals his/her thoughts to the audience
  5. 10. A fourteen-line poem; may be Italian or Shakespearean
  6. 11. Writer's choice of words
  7. 12. The atmosphere/feelings that a work conveys to its READERS
  8. 13. Actor's speech, directed to audience, that is not meant to be heard by others onstage.
  9. 14. Point of view in which third person is used, but only for one character
  10. 15. A rhymed pair of lines in a poem
  11. 18. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (ex- big brown bear)
  12. 20. A unit of meter within a line of poetry
  13. 22. Literature that employs a romanticized description of farm or rural life
  14. 23. Type of irony in which the speaker means something totally different from what they outwardly express
  15. 26. Figure of speech where the truth is exaggerated
  16. 27. Repetition of an initial word or words to add emphasis
  17. 28. A pause or sudden break in a line of poetry, often punctuated
Down
  1. 1. Type of rhyme where words appear to rhyme but when spoken, do not (ex- cough/bough)
  2. 2. A type of character who changes very little over the course of a text
  3. 4. Giving human traits to animals, ideas, or inanimate objects
  4. 6. Type of understatement that utilizes the negative (ex- She was not unattractive.)
  5. 7. Poetry without regular rhyme/rhythm patterns is known as _______ verse
  6. 10. Literary technique in which the whole is represented by naming one of its parts
  7. 12. A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work
  8. 16. A character who serves as a contrast to another character, allowing them to stand out more distinctly
  9. 17. A statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheless true
  10. 19. In poetry, the absence of a stop that allows one line to run over into the next
  11. 21. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is known as _______ verse
  12. 24. Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
  13. 25. Sentence structure