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AP Lit. Fernando
AP Literary Devices for AP Lit. 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 similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known for history, literature, religion, politics,, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.). |
| Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and something conflict ion, meaning in a work. |
| Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
| Anaphora | Repetition or a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. |
| Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
| Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate on point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual. |
| Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks 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 contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |
| Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes, may lack courage, grace intelligence, or moral scruples |
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