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AP lit MANNY
AP literary divices for AP exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | story or poem charecters, setting, and events stand for other people or events. |
| alliteration | repitition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close togethor. |
| allusion | reference to someone or something that is knows from history, literature,,religion, politics, sports, science or another branch of culture. |
| ambiguity | deliberatly suggesting two different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. |
| analogy | comparison between two things to show how they are alike. |
| anaphora | repitition of a words, phrase, or clause at the beggining of two or more sentences in a row. |
| anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of the sentence. |