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AP lit Tatiana
AP literay terms fo AP lit exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | story or poem in which characters, setting and events stand for other people/events for abstact ideas. |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar constant sounds in words that are close together. |
| Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history. |
| Ambiguity | suggesting two or more different meanings in a work. |
| Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word at the beginning of two sentences in a row. |
| Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual o logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
| Anecdote | brief story |
| Antagonist | opponent who blocks the hero |
| Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. |
| Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted. |
| Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. |
| Anthropomorphism | Atributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object. |
| Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |
| Apostrophe | calling out an imaginary noun. |
| Apposition | Placing an immidiately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation |
| Assonance | the repitition of |