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Literary Terms APE
common literary terms for advanced placement english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | a symbolical narrative |
| Alliteration | the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter (tongue twister) |
| Allusion | a metaphor or parable |
| Analogy | similiarity or comparablility |
| Aphorism | a saying embodying a general truth |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech that gives an abstract quality or idea of understanding |
| Context | the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage |
| Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent on choice of words |
| Figurative language | speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to express a special effect or meaning |
| Foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand |
| Hyperbole | to exaggerate |
| Imagery | figurative image of illustration |
| Irony | the use of a meaning to convey a meaning that is actually the opposite of the literal meaning |
| Juxtaposition | the state of being close together or side by side |
| Metaphor | comparing two different things without using the words "like" or "as" |
| Mood | the climate of feeling in a literary work |
| Motif | a recurring theme, idea, or subject |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation or a word by imitation of a sound by its referent ( KABOOM , Zoom, Cuckoo) |
| oxymoron | when two words are used that seem to contradict themselves but work |
| Paradox | a self-contradictory and false proposition |
| Personification | the representation of an inanimate object with human traits |
| Point of View | the perspective at which a story is told from or written by |
| Satire | the use or sarcasm or irony in exposing |
| Setting | the location in which a story takes place |
| Simile | when two unlike things are compared with like or as |
| Symbolism | a set or system of symbols |
| Syntax | the study of the rules |
| Theme | a unifying or dominant idea in a work of art |
| Tone | the quality of voice the author portrays in a novel |
| Understatement | to "under exaggerate" |
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