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AP Lit Ruby
AP Literary Terms for AP lit Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | story or poem in which chaqrecters,settings,and events stand fo9r other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. |
| Alliteration | repitition of the same or similar consonant sounds in wordcs that are close together. |
| Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history,literature,religion,politics,sports,or another branch of culture. An inderect reference to something (usually form literature,etc.) |
| Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting,meanings at 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 ,and detr |
| Anology | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
| Anaphora | repitition of words in successive clauses in reverse gramatical order |
| Antithesis | Balancing words,phrases,or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure |
| Antihero | central charecter who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with other heroes. May lack courage , grace,intellegencfe,or moral scruples. |
| Anthropomorphism | attributing human charecteristics to an animal of inmate object |
| Aphorims | brief,cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim,epigram |
| Apostraphe | calling out to an immagery, dead or absent person,or to a place or thing, or a personfied abstract idea. If the charecter is a asking a god of goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation |
| Apposition | placing in immidiately succeding order of tw or more coordrate elements, the later of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first. |
| Assonance | the repition of similar vowel sounds fallowed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. |
| Asyndeton | commas used without conjuction to seperate of words, tus emphasizing the parts equally |
| Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. |
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