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Literary Terms Week2
AP Lang and Comp
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anastrophe | a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. |
| Anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident. |
| Antithesis | a contrast or opposite. The direct opposite (usually followed by of or to). |
| Aphorism | a short statement or catch phrase containing a well-known or general truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner . |
| Apostrophe | a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object. |
| Appositive | a noun or pronoun — often with modifiers — set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it |
| Archetype | a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation. |
| Argument | a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry. |
| Asyndeton | the omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses |
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