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AP Lit JROD
AP LIterary Terms for AP Lit Exam
Question | Answer |
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Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other things or ideas. |
Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
Allusion | is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. |
Ambiguity | deliberatly suggesting two or more different, sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. |
Analogy | the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. |
Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. |
Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something. |
Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. |
Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. |
Antithesis | Balancing Words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |