AP literary terms Quiz #2 (16-30)

Term that refers to a character or force that appears at the end of a story or play to help resolve conflict. The word means, "god from a machine."

• Enjambment

• Apostrophe

• Deux ex machina

• Allegory

Two lines of poetry

• Couplet

• Diction

• Connotation

• Epilogue

_________________- a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.

• Denouement

• Doppleganger

• Epistolary

• Euphemism

Word choice or the use of words in speech or writing.

• Epistolary

• Euphemism

• Elegy

• Diction

_______________- Deliberate use of language by a writer to instill a feeling or visual.

Epiphany

• Sudden enlightenment or realization

• two rhyming lines of poetry

• A succession of words which are pleasing to the ear.

• somone who tells a story

___________- adds an unstressed syllable and a contraction or elision removes an unstressed syllable in order to maintain the rhythmic meter of a line.

The alter ego of a character- the suppressed side of one's personality that is usually unaccepted by society.

• Deux ex machina

• Doppelganger

• Prequel

• Metonymy

Epistolary

• an idea associated with a word or thing

• solution to the conflict in literature

• casual/ playful speech

• a novel that tells it's story through letters written from one character to another