English 9 Pre-AP vocab set 5

Any ludicrous or grotesque caricature

Harsh discordance of sound

Any break, pause, or interruption

A standard; criterion

One of the main or larger divisions of a long poem

Any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous

Misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor, occuring either in error or for rhetorical effect

The absence of a syllable at the beginning or end of a line of metrical verse resulting in an incomplete foot

The purging of the emotions or relieving or emotional tensions

The principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art or ancient Greece and Rome