AP English Language and Composition Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms, List 6

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  1. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  2. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  3. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  4. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  5. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  6. pun
    a humorous play on words
  7. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  8. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  9. synesthesia
    a sensation that occurs when a different sense is stimulated
  10. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
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