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AP Vocabulary

AP Vocabulary. Quatrain - Stanza. Quatrain. Definition: A poetic stanza of four lines. Example: “Leap Before You Look” – W.H. Auden The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here;

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AP Vocabulary

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  1. AP Vocabulary Quatrain - Stanza

  2. Quatrain • Definition: A poetic stanza of four lines. • Example: “Leap Before You Look” – W.H. Auden The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

  3. Realism • Definition: The practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail. • Example: Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”.

  4. Refrain • Definition: A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song. • Example: In another life I would be your girlWe keep all our promises be us against the worldIn another life I would make you staySo I don't have to say you were the one that got awayThe one that got away.

  5. Rhetorical Question • Definition: A question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered. • Example: May I ask a rhetorical question?

  6. Rhyme • Definition: The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines. • Example: The Mountain by Donna Brock The mountain Frames the sky As a shadow of an eagle flies by With could hanging at its edge A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge

  7. Rhythm • Definition: The modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech.

  8. Rising Action • Definition: development of actions and problems • Examples: Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the river

  9. Sarcasm • Definition: verbal irony designed to lampoon • Example: dialouge

  10. Satire • Definition: work which makes fun of a person, society, culture, tendency, or event • Examples: Candide, The Inferno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aix7tQMdJ3s

  11. Scansion • Definition: graphical analysis of meter and rhyme • Example: The Raven

  12. Setting • Definition: place and time in which the story takes place • Example: The Brother’s Karmazov

  13. Shakespearean Sonnet • 3 4-line units • 1 final 2-line unit • ababcdcdefefggryhmeschme • Example: Sonnett #127

  14. Shaped Verse • Definition: poem written to resemble and object • Example: adaptation of The Raven

  15. The Raven Edger Allen Poe

  16. Simile • Definition: direct comparison using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’ • Example: “I am like a grave” Dmitri Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov

  17. Soliloquy • Definition: a character’s monologue to themselves • Example: Hamlet’s soliloguy

  18. Speaker • Definition: person speaking in a poem • Example: A Study of Reading Habits

  19. Stanza • Definition: section of a poem organized by thought and designated by addition line breaks and usually by changes in rhyme • Example: Inferno

  20. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…

  21. Vocabulary

  22. Define: 200 • Question: • What is sarcasm? • Answer • Verbal irony designed to lampoon Back

  23. Define: 400 • Question: • What is the rising action? • Answer • Development of the action and problems Back

  24. Define: 600 • Question: • What is a refrain? • Answer • A stanza or line that is repeated Back

  25. Define: 800 • Question: • What is realism? • Answer • Realistic description of surroundings and daily life without embellishment Back

  26. Define: 1000 • Question: • What is a soliloquy? • Answer • A character's monologue to themselves Back

  27. Words: 200 • Question: • What term refers to the analysis of meter through a graphic? • Answer • Scansion Back

  28. Words: 400 • Question: • What term refers to the time and place of a story? • Answer • Setting Back

  29. Words: 600 • Question: • This poem contains four line paragraphs • Answer • Quatrain Back

  30. Words: 800 • Question: • Which term refers to the emphasis of stressed and unstressed syllables in flow of speech? • Answer • Rhythm Back

  31. Words: 1000 • Question: • What term, similar in meaning to narrator, means the person speaking in a poem? • Answer • Speaker Back

  32. EX: 200 • Question: • The following is an example of what type of poetry? • Answer • Shakespearean Sonnet EX Back

  33. EX: 400 • Question: • The following is an example of what? • Answer • Satire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R8wY7eFJYA Back

  34. EX: 600 Back • Question: • What term is emphasized in this example: Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a big spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffetaway • Answer • Rhyme

  35. EX: ??? • Question: • What type of poem is the following? Name one element of figurative language used in it. • Answer • Shaped verse and simile EX Back

  36. EX: 1000 • Question: • What term is emphasized in this example: • “Can I ask you a question?” • Answer • Rhetorical question Back

  37. Final Jeopardy • Task: • Create an example which uses at least three of the terms mentioned in this presentation. • Answer • … • Say your example Back

  38. Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Lose the money!

  39. Example • “O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,With insufficiency my heart to sway?To make me give the lie to my true sight,And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,That in the very refuse of thy deedsThere is such strength and warrantise of skill,That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,The more I hear and see just cause of hate?O! though I love what others do abhor,With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:If thy unworthiness raised love in me, More worthy I to be beloved of thee.” Back

  40. Example 2 Back

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