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AP Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work |
| attitude | a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject |
| details (choice of details) | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story |
| devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry (rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia |
| diction | word choice |
| figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony |
| imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work; the visual, auditory or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that the figurative language evokes |
| irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ |
| metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than" |
| narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts |
| omniscient point of view | the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses |
| point of view |
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