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AP Lit Terms
40 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | Reference to another work, concept, or situation. |
| Contemporary Allusion | These are often lost when the current context is no longer in the public eye. For example, saying "May the odds be ever in your favor" (Hunger Games) may not remain in vogue, and, therefore, this reference might lose its effectiveness. |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of a prominent last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next. |
| Anaphora | Repetition where the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. |
| Anastrophe | Figure of speech involving an inversion of the natural syntax of a sentence for the sake of emphasis or effect. |
| Apostrophe | Figure of speech where an absent person, abstract quality, or non-existent personage is addressed as if capable of understanding and responding. |
| Archetype | An archetype is a reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again. |
| Assonance | The close repetition of similar vowel sounds, in successive or proximate words, usually in stressed syllables. |
| Asyndeton | Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join successive words or clauses. |
| Cacaphony | Cacophony in literature refers to the use of words and phrases that imply strong, harsh sounds within the phrase. These words have jarring and dissonant sounds that create a disturbing, objectionable atmosphere. |
| Caesura | A pause or break within a line of poetry, usually marked by punctuation like a period or dash. It can occur anywhere within the line, not just the middle, and creates a pause for emphasis or to highlight a change in thought. |
| Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. It is often a phrase that may be particular to a certain region of a country. |
| Conceit | An unusual comparison in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of a simile, metaphor, hyperbole and/or contradiction. |
| Connotation | The cultural and emotional implications and associations that words carry. |
| Consonance | Consonance is a literary device in which similar consonant sounds are repeated in words that are in close proximity. The repeated sound can appear anywhere in the words. Alliteration is a specific type of consonance. |
| Couplet | In poetry, a consecutive pair of lines that end in rhyme. |
| Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. |
| Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of a word that occurred at the beginning. |
| Epanorthosis | Rephrasing of an immediately preceding word or statement for emphasis. This term is in essence “setting it straight” by retracting a word/phrase to substitute a stronger or more to the point word/phrase. |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive clauses, phrases, sentences, or verses. |
| Euphemism | Substitution of mild, indirect or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt. |
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