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AP lit deydey
AP Literary Terms for AP lit exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | Story odr poem in which characters,settings and eveints stand for other peopole or events or fodr abatract ideas or qualities. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar cosonant sounds in words that are close together |
| Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known fdrom history,literature, relidion, polidtics,sports,science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference dto something(usually from literature,etc,) |
| Ambiguity | deliberately suffesting two or more different and sometimes conflicting meaninings in a work. AN event or situation that may be inerpreteds in more than one way, sometimes done on purpose from the author |
| Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are like |
| Anaphora | Repetition of word,phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row, it makes the writers point more coherent. |
| Anastrophe | Inversion fo the usual, noremal or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rythim of emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word of invasion |
| Anecdote | Brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an examp[le nof something, ofetn shows character of an individual. |
| Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or block 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 contracted often byt means of grammatical structure. |
| Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. may lack courage,grace, intellengence , or moral scruples |
| anthropomorphism | atrributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personafication) |
| aphorism | brief,cleverly worded STATEMENT THAT MAKES A WISE OBEsERVATION ABOUT LIFE, OR OF A principle or accepted general truth. also calle dmaxim,epigrAM |
| APOSTROPHE | CALLING OUTAN IMAGINARY , DEAD, OR ABSENT PERSON, OR TO A PLACE OR THING, OR A PERSONIFIED ABSTRACT IDEA. |
| APPOSITION | PLACING AND IMMEDIATLEY SUCCEDING ORDER OF TWO OR MORE COORDINATE ELEMENTS, THE LATTER OF WHICH |
| APOSTROPHE | CALLING OUTAN IMAGINARY , DEAD, OR ABSENT PERSON, OR TO A PLACE OR THING, OR A PERSONIFIED ABSTRACT IDEA. |
| APPOSITION | PLACING AND IMMEDIATLEY SUCCEDING ORDER OF TWO OR MORE COORDINATE ELEMENTS, THE LATTER OF WHICH |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds wspeciaLLY IN WORDS THAT ARE TOGETHER |
| aSYNDETON | commas used without conjunction to seperate a SERIES OF WORDS , THUS EMPHASIZING THE PARTS EQUALLY |
| BALANCE | A SENTRNCE SO THAT BOTH HALVES ARE BOUT THE SAME LENGHT AND IMPORTntce. sentrences can be unbalance to serve a special effect ass well |
| characterazation | the process by which the writer reveals the personatly of a character |
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