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AP lit Alvizar
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 people or events or for abstaract ideas or qualities |
Alliteration | repetition of the same or similiar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.) |
Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different,and something conflicting, menaings in a work |
Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
Anaphora | repition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
Anastrophe | purpose in rhythm or emphasis or euphony |
Anecdote | Brief story |
Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks hero |
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 |
Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heros |
Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object |
Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth |
Aposthrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea |
Apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordiante elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first |