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AP lit. Camacho
AP Literary Terms For AP Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same or simliar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| Allusion | reference to someone or something that is know from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. an indirect reference to something. |
| Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting tow or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness. |
| Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginnning of two or more sentences in a row. this is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. |
| Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. purpose is rythm or emphasis or euphony. |
| Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character on an individual. |
| Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story |
| Antimetabole | reptition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. |
| Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |
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